Lead/Principal Piping Engineer

LEAD PIPING ENGINEER

Location: Aberdeen | Contract duration: 12-month contract – Inside IR35 | Project: Offshore | Recruitment Partner: Airswift | Account Manager: Anthony Hughes

Keywords: Piping, Design, E3D, PDMS, offshore, Lead, platform modification, brownfield, plant layout, EPC, ASME/ASTM.

Airswift has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Piping Engineer to join one of our clients on a 12 month+ contract. This is a hybrid role with a requirement to be in the Aberdeen office 3 days a week.

The Lead Piping Engineer is assigned to a project as an integral member of the project design team and is responsible for the technical and commercial execution of the design and requisitioning in accordance with the control estimate and specific requirements of the project schedule.

Role & Responsibilities

• To advise the Department Manager of required personnel necessary to maintain the project plan for assigned project.
• To monitor and control manhour budgets against the project plan.
• Review of vendor bids and documentation for technical acceptability.
• To give any necessary technical assistance to other members of the design team.
• To ensure a level of supervision is maintained that encourages empowerment and provides a flexible, responsive approach to the design, procurement and construction of the plant.
• Must be able to work in a multi-Discipline team across different locations and engage in collaborative behaviour that ensures the success of all Disciplines and the Project as a whole.

Skills & Qualifications

• Plant layout, piping design and piping engineering experience within an EPC/EPCm environment.
• Extensive offshore experience.
• Commercial awareness within professional services environment.
• Knowledge of UK, European and ASME/ASTM international standards and practices.
• Experience in a lead position on petrochem and/or pharmaceutical EPC/EPCm projects.
• Piping materials expertise in piping specifications and valves.
• Working knowledge of E3D/PDMS.
• Mechanical engineering degree.

The next step

We have an exceptional team in place, and we are pleased to be able to appoint a further person to our growing business. We are aware that you may not ‘tick all the boxes’, but if you believe you can genuinely offer some valuable skills and experience to our business, please in the first instance contact our recruitment partner Airswift.