Lead Piping Engineer

Wood is presently looking to hire Lead Piping Engineers to be based at our Abu Dhabi Engineering Center. Below are more details about the positions.

Responsibilities:

• Administratively and technically manages all piping personnel under his responsibility.
• Responsible for Proposals Manhours estimation and optimization, CTR inputs, Execution Methodology
• Ensuring Efficient and effective production of project deliverables within the stipulated schedule, budget and delivered to the client.
• Provide skills, integrity, and knowledge in key areas of discipline engineering, including design codes, legislative/Client Specification requirements and current good engineering practices.
• Effectively manage design changes and provide appropriate solutions as and when needed during the Project execution.
• Understands clients 'needs, identifies, and addresses design parameters and problems, and develops and implements solutions.
• Ensure recognized onshore engineering practices applicable to piping design and topside/plant layouts are adopted.
• Responsible for the production/review of Piping deliverables such as Study Reports, Design Calculations, Stress Analysis Reports, PMS and Piping Material/Fabrication Specifications/Procedures, Material Requisitions and Technical Bid Evaluations
• Responsible for the review of Piping drawings including 3D Models, Drawings(Layouts, Plot Plans, GADs, Isometrics) and Piping MTOs
• Responsible for conducting Plot Plans, Safety Layouts, and 3D Model Reviews as per the Project requirements.
• Participates during key project reviews, plot plan reviews, Hazop / SIL reviews, constructability reviews and Design/model review meetings.
• Shall be able to work independently/with minimum guidance, and coordinate well with the piping materials, Stress and Layout engineers/designers besides other disciplines.
• Performs Inter-discipline & discipline QA/QC and engineering compliance checks on all work performed by themselves or junior engineers within the group.
• Adherence to company processes and procedures
• Manage discipline-related activities and work share with other work centers.
• Assists the Engineering Manager and the Project Engineers with technical coordination of interfaces and identification of potential deviations or discrepancies.
• As part of his role, the Candidate should have good knowledge on the below items.
• Application of Piping Codes including ASME B31.3/B31.1, BS EN 13480.
• Application and selection of Piping Materials
• Application of Material and Piping Component Codes ASTM, API, BS, MSS SP
• Exposure to Piping Layouts and review of piping deliverables such as Piping Plots, Piping Nozzle orientation Drawings, General Arrangement Drawings, Isometrics and material lists.
• Wall thickness calculations.
• Pipe stress and Flexibility analysis calculation.
• Design/specification of pipe supports.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum15 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Lead and supervised a team of Piping Engineers and Designers
• Hands-on experience in Piping Software's -3D Design Software (AVEVA, Smart Plant, etc.) and CAESAR II/Auto Pipe Stress Analysis software.
• Good interpersonal skills and excellent command in English
• Communicate clearly and professionally both verbally and in writing with superiors, colleagues, and individuals outside of the Company.
• Oil and Gas Projects working with Major Consultancy Companies and minimum 5 years' experience in the lead role
• Different Stages of Projects(Concept, FEED and Detailed Design) of large-sized Onshore projects
• Piping Engineering(Layout Design, Piping Materials and Stress Engineering) of Onshore Processing/Refinery Plants