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What We Offer 

The Principal Lead Piping Designer is responsible for the Piping technology discipline to reach project targets by leading a team of internal/ external project engineers under the guidance of EM and PM. 

Major Responsibilities 

• Lead or coordinate project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, people management and troubleshooting to ensure the timely workforce support of ongoing engineering projects 

• Set the project standards to ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost effectiveness 

• Establish multi-discipline workflow to ensure cross communication (interface management) within piping team and within project sub-team incl. internal and external discipline (Infrastructure, by meetings, face to face, emails, set up roles and responsibility matrix) 

• Distribute piping related inputs to support project team with piping know how 

• Define & manage the design battery limits & interfaces of 3rd Parties (Piping design subcontractors/consultants; Piping contractors/vendors; EP(s)C(M) contractor’s Piping design team) to exchange piping know how following the role and responsibility matrix 

• Prepare documentation for Piping (basic, detail, interface, final; e.g. in EPDS 1-99 Project File Structure) to ensure the delivery package fully compliance 

• Define Piping related workflows and guidelines, instruct technical personnel in view of legal obligation and company policy to ensure complete and consistent piping design package 

• Lead & coordinate discipline model reviews to meet business requirements across all discipline 

• Support expediting for all Piping critical items (eng. documents, technical goods) to ensure quality and quantity of piping technical goods to execute project 

• Support preparation and execution of commissioning and start-up activities for Project to meet start-up requirements 

What You Offer 

Basic Qualifications 

• High school diploma or equivalent and at least 14 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams OR; 

• Associate degree in a scientific discipline and at least 10 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams OR; 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering, Chemical engineering or related and at least 8 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams 

• The eligibility to apply for and obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) within a reasonable timeframe 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Designing institute, Engineering company, Project owner background 

• Petro chemical background 

• Project experience: Lead Engineer role or Piping Engineer role in €5 million+ projects (amount of investment)  

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