The AVEVA System Administrator is a senior engineering technology role responsible for the technical administration, configuration, governance, and optimization of the AVEVA E3D environment supporting multidiscipline engineering and project execution.
Unlike a traditional IT system administrator, this position requires a strong understanding of engineering design principles, plant design, engineering data, specifications, materials, constructability, and multidiscipline engineering workflows. The administrator translates engineering requirements into the E3D configuration, catalogs, specifications, rules, databases, templates, and workflows used by engineering teams to execute projects.
The role works closely with Piping, Mechanical, Structural, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls, Process, Project Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Information Technology to ensure the E3D environment accurately represents engineering standards and supports reliable project deliverables.
The organization''s current E3D job description similarly calls for understanding engineering, procurement and construction principles and specifically assigns responsibility for CATs & Specs across piping, structural, instrumentation, electrical and supports.
AVEVA E3D Engineering Administration
- Lead configuration, administration, maintenance, and technical governance of AVEVA E3D production, development, and project environments.
- Establish and maintain E3D project structures, databases, teams, access controls, templates, and engineering configurations.
- Configure E3D environments to support project-specific and corporate engineering requirements.
- Maintain engineering model integrity and support consistent application of engineering and design standards.
- Diagnose complex E3D application, database, configuration, and modeling issues.
- Support E3D upgrades, testing, validation, deployment, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop and maintain engineering administration standards, procedures, and documentation.
Engineering Catalogs & Specifications
- Develop, configure, validate, and maintain E3D catalogs and specifications (CATs & Specs).
- Translate engineering specifications and design standards into controlled E3D content.
- Maintain piping components, supports, structural components, equipment-related content, electrical/instrumentation content, properties, attributes, and associated engineering data.
- Configure and maintain dictionaries, User Defined Attributes (UDAs), property tables, specifications, and related engineering configuration.
- Work with discipline engineering leads to ensure catalog and specification content reflects approved engineering standards and project requirements.
- Support material and component data required for engineering deliverables, material takeoffs, procurement, and downstream project execution.
Engineering Design & Project Execution Support
- Partner with engineering disciplines to properly configure projects before engineering design begins.
- Support piping and equipment layouts, structural modeling, supports, electrical/instrumentation modeling, and other E3D engineering workflows.
- Support model reviews and engineering/design quality processes.
- Support clash detection, model integrity, and issue-resolution workflows.
- Develop and support engineering reports including material takeoffs, center-of-gravity information, surface area, bolt lists, progress reporting, and other project-specific deliverables.
- Troubleshoot issues affecting engineering productivity, model quality, deliverables, or project schedules.
- Support brownfield and greenfield engineering execution as required.
Engineering Data Governance
- Establish and enforce standards governing model structure, naming, attributes, catalogs, specifications, and engineering data.
- Ensure consistent engineering configuration across projects while accommodating legitimate project-specific requirements.
- Work with engineering stakeholders to improve model quality, reuse, standardization, and data consistency.
- Support integration and data handoffs between E3D and other engineering/project systems.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive engineering and administration activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''s or Associate''s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Design Technology, CAD/Plant Design, or a related technical discipline; equivalent directly relevant engineering/design experience may be considered.
- Significant experience with AVEVA E3D and/or PDMS in an engineering/project execution environment.
- Strong understanding of 3D plant design and multidiscipline engineering workflows.
- Demonstrated experience administering E3D projects, databases, catalogs, specifications, configuration, and engineering data.
- Working knowledge of engineering drawings and deliverables such as P&IDs, equipment arrangements, piping layouts, isometrics, BOMs/MTOs, specifications, and 3D models.
- Understanding of engineering, procurement, and construction processes.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, designers, project teams, IT personnel, and software vendors.
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience with AVEVA E3D/PDMS.
- Experience with AVEVA Unified Engineering, AVEVA Engineering, AVEVA P&ID/Diagrams, or related AVEVA applications.
- Experience developing or maintaining E3D CATs & Specs.
- Knowledge of PML and E3D/PDMS database structures.
- Experience with Clash Manager and multidisciplinary model-review processes.
- Experience supporting brownfield and/or greenfield industrial projects.
- Experience with engineering automation, custom reports, engineering integrations, or data exchange.
- Experience supporting large engineering/EPC organizations.
PML and database-structure knowledge are specifically identified as preferred skills in the current internal E3D administrator description.