Senior Principal Piping Engineer (Material)
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**Job Overview**:
The Senior Principal Piping Engineer is tasked with solving unique and complex problems that broadly impact the business. They must proactively identify and solve the most complex problems that impact the management and direction of the business. The Senior Principal Piping Engineer is considered a specialist in the field of piping engineering, and they offer a broad base of knowledge about the engineering function. The Senior Principal Piping Engineer impacts the direction and resource allocation of programs and projects in their discipline and works within general functional policies and industry guidelines. The Senior Principal Piping Engineer role requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop creative solutions to piping engineering challenges.
**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:
- Perform conceptual, FEED, and detailed analyses and design as per design basis, project specifications, design codes, and standards
- Develop creative and innovative solutions that are reliable and cost-effective for problems and challenges when they arise
- Manage own time to meet objectives and (as Lead Engineer) forecast and plan resource requirements
- Develop and manage plans to achieve business objectives
- Clearly communicate and explain highly complex ideas and anticipate potential objections, influencing outcomes
- When acting as Lead Engineer, in addition:
- Direct large Engineering team as a Lead Engineer on most unique and complex projects
- Lead the Discipline engineering design of the assigned work area and completed within the planned schedule and budget, in accordance with standards, MDR, and project-specific procedures and to a high professional standard
- Plan, organize, and direct all aspects of Discipline execution on the assigned project, including scope, deliverables, schedule, and all workforce resources - agree on allocations with the Discipline Manager
- Ensure interfaces and deliverables are clearly identified
- Maintain responsibility for progress and productivity, identifying any required corrective action
- Act as project representative for the discipline during meetings with the Project Team, Customer discipline lead, and relevant agencies such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc
- Train/mentor other employees in the department
- Assist and monitor MOPEX offices on projects
- Have a good understanding of the other engineering departments
- Have a good understanding of construction/fabrication yard and client requirements
- Have commercial insight
- Help to maintain Unify
- Supervise engineers and designers
- Define scopes of work for engineering/ construction fabrication yard
- Provide engineering support as required
- Prepare specifications
- Prepare technical part of Piping subcontracts
- Review of vendor data
- Prepare technical bid evaluations
- Assist in furthering the department
- Tasks as Engineering Specialist:
- Specify materials for all piping components in accordance with process and project requirements
- Supply relevant disciplines with preliminary information
- Write and handle piping requisitions in accordance with project requirements
- Make evaluations of incoming bids from sellers and check same for completeness of scope and compliance with specification
- Check all seller documents for completeness and compliance to the purchase order requisition
- Prepare input and run reports for the computerized piping material management systems
- Lead and supervise all MTO & Control Engineers, ensuring high-quality MTOs and sound material quantity control on all projects
- Is responsible for all piping material take-off and quantity control activities, including checking and reporting
- Ensure a Piping Material Take-Off Planning Form is prepared and approved prior to the MTO activities on a project and an MTO Close-Out Report upon completion of the bulk MTO
- Prepare all types of Material Control reports, analyze all piping material quantity developments, and report findings to Project Management
- Provide advanced pipe stress calculations of critical systems, cooperate with Plant design on necessary modifications
- Design adequate pipe supports
- Communicate with the Civil/Structural department on Pipe-suppor
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