Senior Piping Engineer

Qualifications:

Education: BSc, BEng, BTech Professional Registered Engineer or equivalent registration

Experience: 8 Years minimum experience

Knowledge, Skills and Experience: CAESAR II Smartplant reference data

Location: Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

Job Description:

1. Technical Design Ability: Under supervision completes technical design work using company and Client design methods, standards, and data in line with Project requirements. Provision of support to designers.
2. Technical Expertise: Possesses proficient levels of technical expertise required to do the job; however, continuously works towards improving and updating technical abilities. Will personally seek out opportunities to develop a technical knowledge base.
3. Cross Discipline Project and Team Interaction: Appreciation of project setup and team structure across disciplines. Under guidance, works with other discipline designers.
4. Understanding and Meeting Schedule and Schedule Dependencies: Awareness of personal targets for deliverable production and deliverable schedule.
5. Commercial Awareness and Customer Focus: Under direction develops the engineering requirement.
6. Interpretation of Engineering Requirements: Under direction develops the engineering requirement.

Responsibilities:

1. Deputies for the Chief Piping Engineer when requested.
2. Assist Chief Piping Engineer with project proposals when requested.
3. Responsible for the design and approval of all piping work on assigned projects.
4. Responsible for preparation and approval of project related standards and job notes.
5. Ensure that engineering activities on assigned projects are executed within budgeted manhours and approved schedules in compliance with project procedures, standards, and specifications, and in accordance with procedures and the requirements of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of South Africa.
6. Review and approve project schedules with the Project Engineer to see that all dates, rates of progress, and design periods are realistic.
7. Prepare and approve project specific standards and job notes.
8. Prepare pipe material specifications.
9. Prepare pipe support standard.
10. Prepare stress analysis procedure.
11. Prepare piping design philosophy.
12. Ensure design complies with client specifications and requirements.
13. Prepare requisition index for special piping items, indicating planned issue date for each requisition.
14. Update and reissue monthly.
15. Prepare pipe stress index.
16. Update and reissue monthly.
17. Check piping drawing index for piping work.
18. Prepare and approve general notes requisitions for piping work.
19. Design and requisition special piping items.
20. Prepare support sketches for the drawing office.
21. Provide stress input into 3D model.
22. Prepare material error checking report and provide to the piping designer.
23. Check and approve piping bulk requisitions from MTO.
24. Keep track of key quantity changes on the project.
25. Prepare and approve piping BOQ.
26. Review and approve all piping drawings and isometrics, ensuring the quality of design and drawings produced for enquiry and fabrication purposes is of satisfactory standard.
27. Prepare technical bid analysis for special piping items.
28. Check and approve piping bulk technical evaluations from requisitions.
29. Attend coordination meetings and engineering review meetings with suppliers as required.
30. Review document requirements and issue dates for major equipment with suppliers and assist the Procurement Department in compiling a Suppliers Document Index.
31. Assist the Procurement Department with the expediting of supplier documents.
32. Review and approve supplier documents for piping and distribute.
33. Review in conjunction with the Procurement Department all claims by suppliers for an increase in the engineering scope of work.
34. Give guidance to clients, project engineers, other specialist engineers, and inspectors on piping engineering matters.
35. Review piping aspects of package unit suppliers drawings as requested by the engineer responsible for the equipment.
36. Ensure that piping engineering operations are complete in accordance with the approved project schedule and within allocated manhours.
37. Advise the Chief Piping Engineer of any slippages, their causes, and proposed corrective action.
38. Advise the Chief Piping Engineer of any technical problems and unresolved differences with other groups.
39. Co-ordinate with the Procurement Department and ensure certified drawings are available in time to meet the engineering schedules.
40. Notify the Project Engineer of all deficiencies in the flow of data or other basic information required for execution of work.
41. Provide progress report information, at the required frequency and with the required content, to the Project Engineer.
42. Provide information where necessary to estimate the cost of contract changes. Alert the Project Engineer / Project Manager to circumstances considered to be subject to contract change.
43. Follow up piping construction work on project sites to ensure correct interpretation of designs regarding installation.
44. Resolve any piping problems arising during commissioning.
45. Review documents prepared by piping engineers.
46. Mentor piping engineers.
47. Keep abreast of developments in the piping engineering field.
48. Suggest ways to improve efficiency, costs, and service in the execution of projects.
49. Assist where necessary in the compilation of operating manuals and mechanical catalogues.
50. Perform such duties as may reasonably be assigned by the Chief Piping Engineer.