Senior Mechanical & Piping Designer

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a Senior Piping & Mechanical/Multidisciplined Designer to join its Operations business focusing on Oil & Gas. This opportunity is Onsite in Narrows, VA.

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The Role

As a Senior Piping & Mechanical/Multidisciplined Designer, you'll create comprehensive mechanical design packages, using your mathematical skills and field experience to develop innovative solutions. You'll work autonomously, interpreting data and collaborating with teams to ensure precision and adherence to design standards.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood’s Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.

What we can offer

- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Oil & Gas sector

- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs.

- Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice

- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market.

- Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle

- Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests

- Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession

Typical responsibilities

- Develop mechanical design packages with complete sets of mechanical drawings involving modified or original designs. Perform assignments requiring considerable field design/drafting experience and the use of mathematical skills to compute weights, dimensions, quantities of materials. Ability to obtain data from field observations.

- Work from sketches and verbal information supplied by Project Managers/Area representatives to develop sketches or drawings with appropriate views, details, and supplementary information to complete assignments.

- Prepare mechanical designs that comply with applicable design codes, standard engineering practices (SEPs), RAGAGEPs, engineering design sketches, fabrication and constructability requirements, and clearness/completeness of drafting presentation.

- Exercise independent judgment in selecting and interpreting data based on knowledge of the design intent and required information from existing drawings, manufacturer’s catalogues, technical guides, codes, standards, SEPs, RAGAGEPs, field survey notes.

- Keep the Project Manager/Area representative informed of progress, design issues, and/or changes that might impact schedule or man-hour budgets.

- Interface with other disciplines as required to effectively and efficiently develop mechanical design deliverables.

- Function as a design reviewer as needed, assuring compliance with engineering design sketches and calculations, applicable design codes, fabrication and constructability, industry standards, clearness, completeness/dimensional accuracy of the design, and drafting presentation.

- Support and participate in activities that enhance the current Safety Culture at the Site.

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected:

- Associate’s degree in Design or Engineering

- 15+ years of practical industrial design experience

- Piping experience

- Knowledge of industrial processes, fabrication and construction techniques, equipment, design philosophies, codes, industry standards, and practices.

- Familiar with Industrial Facility safety policies and procedures.

- Thoroughly knowledgeable of the types of construction drawings and details required by their discipline.

- Familiar with Microstation/AutoCAD and MS Office software.

- This is a multidisciplined role. Designer may work on all aspects of the design, to include, but not limited to the following: civil, structural, mechanical, HVAC, piping, equipment layout, pressure vessels, machine design.

Proactive and highly motivated, thriving with autonomy and dedicated to continuous process improvement

Desirable:

- 3D Modeling a plus.

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.