North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer

RINA•Houston, TX

20d

About The Position

RINA is a global knowledge company where expertise travels across borders, disciplines, and industries. Every day, we collaborate on solving complex challenges that no single field could tackle alone. With a presence in more than 70 countries and 160 years of heritage, we turn individual know-how into collective progress. We are currently recruiting for a North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer to join our office within the Plant Engineering Division.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering
10+ years of experience in detailed facility and piping design for Oil & Gas facilities.
Professional Engineer Licensure in US state is required. Texas PE is preferred.
Strong understanding of engineering and construction practices for refined products facilities.
Thorough understanding of Piping Codes including B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, and B31.8.
In-depth knowledge of technical specifications for bidding documents.
Familiarity with resource management and scheduling.
Working knowledge of computer-aided design software and other PC software packages typically associated with engineering including AutoCAD required.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Nice To Haves

Liquid Hydraulics analysis experience preferred.
CAESAR II Pipe Stress analysis experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Conduct engineering and oversee planning and design of hydrocarbon, natural gas, compressed air, steam, and related facilities.
Understand and apply client and industry engineering specifications to projects.
Manage all internal and external project interfaces to ensure timely provision of necessary input and information to meet project execution schedules.
Lead the engineering team in developing strategies for system configuration tasks and component design, ensuring progress and satisfactory task completion within project constraints.
Oversee and execute all technical activities within the discipline.
Provide technical support and direction to solve engineering issues.
Identify project and contract hot spots, criticalities, and activity priorities.
Optimize technical engineering processes to achieve reduced time and costs.
Coordinate resources assigned to the discipline.
Supervise and coordinate all engineering, design, and drafting activities.
Ensure the proper management of interfaces with other disciplines and construction/installation activities, driving the team toward optimized cost-effective solutions.
Interact with client’s management and engineering department to facilitate project efforts.
Control project schedules and ensure adherence to timelines.
Supervise and coordinate the review and independent analysis of pipelines during third-party engineering activities.
Oversee requisitioning and technical bid evaluations.
Develop personnel skills and flexibility through work assignments, responsibilities, seminars, and courses.
Ensure the capitalization of project experience to improve work methodologies.
Report to the Pipeline Principal Engineer.
Participate in new business development activities – providing scope descriptions and hours estimates for proposals and participating in client meetings and presentations.
Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and third-party consultants.
Develop and mentor technical staff.
Ensure that pipeline design comply with local, state and federal regulations, as well as industry standards and codes.