Senior Piping Designer

Senior Piping Designer

Fully Remote (with the occasional visit to the clients Aberdeen office)

6 Month Contract (outside IR35)

About The Role

Your main duties may include:

• Aids the project in creating schedules, time assignment and resource allocation.
• Responsible for ensuring designs meet project requirements.
• Input to project plans.
• Identify areas of concern during any project or study.
• Produce cost- effective engineering solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value.
• Ability to address operational and maintenance issues in the design and liaise with colleagues for the best solution.
• Undertake surveys, both onshore and offshore.

Our Designers can expect to work in a modern environment, based in our Aberdeen or Glasgow office. We offer flexible working on a hybrid basis where 2 days per week can be worked remotely.

Role is available on a staff or contractor basis.

About You

Our ideal candidate will enjoy team working, will be customer and quality focused, can use their own initiative and will be responsive to our business and client needs. You should also enjoy Leadership and development of people through coaching and mentoring of others.

• Experience leading a team of Designers and coordinating work tasks to achieve required plan dates or be a senior / principal designer looking for a step up in their career.
• Experience in managing design team budgets, Produce scope estimates and recognising and controlling scope change.
• Creating and maintaining Piping design deliverable list and monitor design team productivity.
• Experience in providing timely progress /updates to Piping Lead Engineers with respect to design activities/deliverables.
• Understanding and ability to interpret system Process and Instrument Diagrams.
• Strong experience performing studies, FEED and detail design of Piping fabrications in an EPC environment or client role is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the offshore and onshore Oil and Gas business, but similar transferrable industries skills will be also considered in lieu of specific O&G experience.
• Experience of working in a brownfield environment/projects preferred. 
• In depth experience of offshore piping lay-out requirements (Design, Safety, Construction and installation and maintenance aspects)
• In depth experience of offshore safety regulations and construction requirements
• Having offshore BOSIET, MIST and medical is required for the role with experience of site surveys.
• Experience in 3D modelling – AutoCAD plant 3D is required.
• Experience in generating and design checking 3D models (AutocAD plant 3D preferred).
• Experience in AutoCad, Plant 3D and Recap.
• In depth Knowledge and understanding of 2D drafting standards,  In depth experience of piping drawings requirements/presentation.
• Knowledge, understanding of UK statutory requirements such as pressure equipment regulation (PER), PED regulations would be essential for the role.
• HND in a relevant subject.
• Offshore Certificates are required for this role