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Principal Designer Piping
Zachry GroupDowners Grove, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jun 2025
About the role
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Complete advanced/complex Piping Design and Equipment Layouts in accordance with Industry Practices using 2D CAD & 3D E3D Software and/or other 3D Design software
- Ability to write execution plans for large caps and high complexity projects.
- Ability to create detailed project schedules and review schedules for multi-discipline projects.
- Ability to layout brownfield and greenfield facilities with understanding of equipment spacing criteria with respect to industry standards and operational/maintenance access and clearances
- Ability to audit and validate the adherence to the Quality process and workflow of other designers on the project team
- Serve as mentor for new and junior designers and drafters
- Serve as the technical specialist for team reviews and design reviews on packages.
- Ability to converse with the Client and identify scope change
- Serve as a qualified expert in Piping capable of making key technical decisions on a project
- Prepare construction documents which includes General Arrangements, Piping Isometrics, Piping Plans, Material Take Offs
- Prepare design sketches for use by drafting personnel
- Create design sketches, layouts, and notes from field walkdowns
- Ability to create as built P&IDs from field walkdowns
- Develop stress packages to submit to Stress Engineering, with understanding on continuations and required details on existing supports, guides, anchors, etc. impact system flexibility
- Possess understanding of more advanced thermal expansion and basic dynamic Stress analysis principals required when doing preliminary layout and work with Stress Engineers to optimize layouts on hot lines
- Basic ability to import and use/navigate a laser scan with LFM.
- Ability to lead large teams of designers and coordinate all required day to day workflow
- Ability to review new proposals/RFQs and complete estimates for small and large caps work
- Advanced experience marking up and coordinating vendor document review for major and minor equipment and coordinate logistics on the vendor document review process
- Advanced understanding on standard instrument design and installation requirements and differences in technology with ability to navigate those design and installation challenges without supervision.
- Ability to develop line study 2D drawings to develop hand take off MTOs to support cost estimates and to serve as the basis for detailed design.
- Understanding of structural design and requirements and impact to layout and pipe support loads
- Initiate conceptual physical design requirements in coordination with appropriate responsible supervisors and engineers
- Conduct and run model reviews, including ability to collect and manage comments
- Check and verify the discipline design on projects as a certified checker medium to higher complexity projects including ability to check equipment design and layouts in E3D using advanced field constructability and knowledge of fabrications means/methods
- Perform all other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
- 15+ years of experience and knowledge in the design requirements for respective discipline as they apply to petrochemical, refining, pharmaceutical, or power plant construction projects
- High school diploma or Associates Degrees with drafting courses; Bachelor’s Degree preferred with design experience
- Strong Piping Design skills in accordance with several Industry standards and codes (API, ASME, PIP, etc.)
- Knowledge of expansion joint design and associated differences with respect to types of expansion joints.
- Knowledge of spring supports and functionality including differences between types of engineered supports.
- Served in several field assignment specific to design, constructability, and means/methods on piping installation and fit up.
- General knowledge of typical out of spec and specialty items associated with piping systems.
- Advanced ability to navigate in 3D E3D model and Navisworks
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, Adobe/Bluebeam, and Document Control Systems.
- Advanced knowledge on FEL/FEED project execution staged gate process including understanding differences on execution between early FEL/FEED and detailed design.
- Able to mark up and track master P&ID comments and ability to transpose line list information to drawings/documents
- Detailed knowledge of major types of fixed equipment and rotating equipment
- Detailed knowledge of and key design requirements of instrumentation
- Understanding of basic NDE/T means/methods as well as basic knowledge of insulation and coatings
- Advanced understanding of the overall Project Execution and Mul
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