Highlights
Job Title: Piping Field Engineer Specialist Location: Brownsville, TX, 78520 Duration: 7 Months Job Type: Temporary Assignment Work Type: Onsite Job Desription: The Piping Field Engineer Specialist is responsible for supporting construction, quality inspections, and system turnover activities through detailed field walkdowns, system verification, and documentation readiness. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Brownsville, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $51.40–$56.33 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers objectives to create a lasting positive impact. Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.
Job Title: Piping Field Engineer Specialist
Location: Brownsville, TX, 78520
Duration: 7 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Desription:
- The Piping Field Engineer Specialist is responsible for supporting construction, quality inspections, and system turnover activities through detailed field walkdowns, system verification, and documentation readiness.
- This role focuses on verifying installed piping systems against design requirements, isometric and P&ID drawings, identifying discrepancies, creating punch lists, supporting test package development, and ensuring systems are mechanically complete and ready for testing and turnover.
- Field walkdowns and installation verification are a core function of piping FE roles supporting turnover activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Field Walkdowns / Line Walking
- Perform system & test package line walks to verify installation against:
- Isometric drawings
- P&IDs
- Plot plans
- Identify and document punch items and deficiencies
- Validate examples:
- Valve orientation ( PPE Preferred Pressure End / VE Vent End)
- Valve Accessibility and operability
- Proper installation of components (valves, fittings, pipe supports)
- Confirm piping routing, slope, and tie-ins match design requirements
- Field walkdowns and discrepancy identification are core daily tasks for piping FE support roles.
Quality Verification Support
- Support inspections ensuring compliance with:
- Project specifications
- Applicable standards/codes
- Verify:
- Flange alignment and integrity
- Bolt-up completeness
- Material traceability
- Pipe cleanliness requirements
- Assist in nonconformance identification and reporting (NCRs)
Test Package & Turnover Support
- Assist with test package preparation and verification
- Ensure:
- Validate boundaries and system limits
- All components are installed and documented
- Pressure test documentation is complete and accurate
- Track:
- Hydrotest / pneumatic test readiness
- Flushing and cleaning activities
Construction Support / Interface
- Provide technical support to construction teams during installation
- Coordinate with:
- Superintendents
- Engineering
- Assist in resolving:
- Field installation issues
- Design discrepancies and Constructability concerns
Documentation & Reporting
- Generate and maintain:
- Walkdown reports
- Punch lists
- System readiness status
- Ensure all inspection and turnover documentation is:
- Complete and accurate
Safety and Quality Compliance
- Participate in:
- Job briefs
- Toolbox talks
- Safety meetings
- Adhere to:
- Client Quality Absolutes
- Project safety procedures
- Support safe execution of:
- Construction installation activities
- Pressure testing activities System turnover operations
Daily Activities (Typical):
- Conduct line walks and update punch lists
- Verify valve orientation, tagging, and installation details
- Track system status (construction testing turnover)
- Support test package compilation and verification
Required Qualifications:
- 5 to 12 years piping and or mechanical engineering related field experience (preferred)
- Experience in B31.3 Process Piping construction/installation (LNG or similar preferred)
- Strong knowledge of interpretation of:
- P&IDs, isometrics, and plot plans
- ASME B31.3 and applicable codes
- Ability to perform field walkdowns and identify discrepancies
- Strong communication and coordination skills
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with:
- Computer literate in word processing, Excel etc.
- Quality validation/inspections
- Pipe pressure testing and system turnover
- Knowledge of:
- Flange management
- Valve installation requirements
- Pipe cleanliness standards
Performance Expectations:
- High attention to detail during Piping Installation and Testing Package line walks
- Timely identification of installation discrepancies
- Strong coordination with construction and field engineering teams
- Support Right the First Time execution and turnover readiness
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.