Senior Piping & Mechanical Designer

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.

- Meet or exceed the company’s safety standards.

- Comply with all company procedures, engineering practices and other standards.

- Read and fully understand P&ID’s and other documents which describe the scope of work to be done.

- Be able to read and understand fully the plant’s engineering specifications, standards, guidelines, and other technical documents related to your discipline.

- Be familiar with industry codes such as ASME, API, and others which relate to piping and mechanical design in industrial environments.

- Interface with engineers, operators, maintenance, environmental, and other personnel at the plant site to understand the design considerations for the site.

- Guide more junior piping and mechanical designers in their design work.

- Provide piping & mechanical design for capital and service projects in a fast-paced environment.

- Guide site employees through reviews of piping and mechanical designs to get their input prior to issuing these for construction.

- Issue construction complete construction packages.

- Field as-built, measurement, and design as project requires.

- Assist with material take-offs and construction estimating.

- 20+ years industrial experience working in the design field, preferably in that of the chemical manufacturing industry.

- Willing and capable of operating in a self-directed manner to drive your design process forward.

- Able to understand and act when your part of the project hits a roadblock.

- Able to travel to and act independently at other plant sites in the gathering of needed information for your designs.

- Highly experienced in design of piping & mechanical systems as currently used in chemical manufacturing facilities.

- Outdoor design experience, able to wear required PPE and drive safely to jobsite for field measurement/as-built drawings.

- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

- Good negotiation skills A pro-active approach to solving problems and getting the job done.

- Self-motivated/Self-directed.

- Proficiency in MicroStation.

- Proficiency in Microsoft, Word, Excel and Outlook.

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

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