Piping Engineer

Prioritize and distribute design work to designers, utilizing their best skills and seizing opportunities for them to learn new skills or improve their efficiency. Coordinate with other disciplines as required to produce projects with the lowest total installed cost possible.

We are hiring for a Piping Engineer with a strong focus on Mechanical/Piping Design! This is a direct hire position.

Candidates can work out of any of the following cities: Jacksonville FL, Dothan, Brewton or Mobile, AL.

Base annual pay $120-150k+, relevant to experience.

You are expected to be available for a minimum of 40 hours per week and be able to work fairly independently.

Job description:
Responsibilities – Mechanical/Piping Design, 65%

• Design responsibility for all mechanical/piping work
• Develop feasible design solutions
• Perform stress analysis and back train others
• Design guidance and review for design work by others
• Perform calculations as required
• Work with applicable codes to ensure design compliance

Responsibility – Project Design Supervision, 15%

• Develop plan of work and oversee drawings as required.
• Perform field work
  • Inspecting plant conditions
  • Verifying existing plant conditions
  • Designing structures
  • Layout new equipment for most efficient use of space and resources
• Develop design concepts for Installation of equipment and structures.
• Coordinate with other disciplines as required to produce projects with the lowest total installed cost possible
• Verify detailed design is in compliance with design intent and standards

Responsibility – Project Management, 10%

• Establish and maintain positive relationships with clients
• Lead scope development efforts by interfacing with clients as needed.
• Communicate scope needs to designers or other engineers
• Obtain quotes for engineering, equipment, material, and services
• Develop bid packages, lead bid meetings and evaluate bids
• Control documents generated during the course of the project.  Issue documents to client for permanent storage.

Responsibility – Design Process Leadership, 10%

• Participate in and review work process for mechanical design work.
• Establish or modify existing design and checking standards.
• Train employees in procedures.
• Establish and maintain metrics or processes to ensure compliance with the procedures.
• Promote the establishment of “standard details” or other drawing devices to speed design of routine items.
• Implement 3D design technology and develop into the base approach for new design.
• Prioritize and distribute design work to designers, utilizing their best skills and seizing opportunities for them to learn new skills or improve their efficiency.
• Check employees’ participation in using design procedures. Promote, encourage, scold, as required to achieve compliance.
• Check design time vs. project budgets and work for meeting or improving on that metric.
• Obtain feedback from project engineers and customers and utilize that information to improve or reward performance

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 8+ Years Piping/Mechanical Design
• Pulp/Papermill or equivalent industrial design experience

Preferred:

• Piping Stress Analysis is a PLUS