About the Role
The role involves ensuring compliance with company and statutory requirements as well as engineering standards in piping design across all Purchase Orders and Programs. The incumbent will maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable industry standards, ensuring project designs adhere to current requirements. The position requires a proactive approach to understanding safety hazards and risks associated with the lifecycle of the designed product, plant, or system. You will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement in project delivery while upholding high-quality engineering outcomes.
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Primary Objectives / Responsibilities
- Ensure company and statutory requirements, along with applicable engineering standards, are identified and addressed in piping design across all Purchase Orders and Programs.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant industry standards and ensure project designs comply with current requirements.
- Ensure the technical integrity of piping deliverables through checking, verification, and design review activities.
- Proactively understand the safety hazards and risks associated with the asset lifecycle of the designed product, plant, or system.
- Ensure actions arising from Project Reviews and Value Improvement Practices (VIPs) are completed in a timely manner.
- Design and develop innovative technical approaches to piping engineering challenges and contribute to continuous business improvement initiatives.
- Communicate key design decisions with potential safety impacts to project teams and ensure they are appropriately documented.
- Drive continuous improvement in the effectiveness and efficiency of project delivery through elimination, simplification, standardization, and automation while maintaining high-quality engineering outcomes.
Specific Accountabilities
- Plan the execution of piping discipline activities to maintain project schedules.
- Manage quality and consistency within the discipline.
- Provide technical direction, control, and supervision for engineering and design activities.
- Resolve discipline-related technical issues.
- Prepare discipline man-hour estimates for proposals and develop deliverables lists.
- Deliver discipline design deliverables within approved man-hour budgets.
- Manage discipline resources in collaboration with the Project Engineering Manager.
- Identify software requirements and select appropriate design tools.
- Identify training and development needs of discipline personnel.
- Perform or delegate checking of deliverables.
- Report progress on deliverables and tasks and provide updates for project reporting.
- Identify and report potential project variances.
- Maintain and update lessons learned registers.
- Undertake or delegate site visits as required.
- Manage interfaces within the discipline, across other disciplines, and with third-party contractors.
- Interface with procurement and construction teams.
- Coordinate change control and technical query processes within the discipline.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Minimum 15 years of experience in Brownfield Oil & Gas Piping Design and Engineering.
- Experience performing as a professional Piping Engineer for projects and plant modifications from Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) through execution, commissioning, and start-up.
- Demonstrated experience in piping design, material selection, pipe routing, stress analysis, and engineering support for oil and gas facilities.
- Minimum 5-10 years of experience leading piping engineering activities within multidisciplinary project delivery teams.
- Experience in the Middle East is an advantage.
- Experience in front-end engineering, project execution, commissioning, and start-up activities.
- Experience with project management.
- Experience managing EPCM projects.
Required Competencies
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- Professional Engineering status or equivalent professional registration.
- Proven leadership skills and a strong personal drive to meet deadlines and targets.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to work and manage in a multicultural environment.
- Strong commitment to HSSE leadership and experience managing HSSE throughout all project phases.
- Experience in the design, selection, specification, and implementation of piping systems.
Moving Forward Together
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. Our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. We are building a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace, creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We are reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Whatever your ambition, there's a path for you here. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
