Principal Mechanical Engineer

Gulf Mexico CityMiguel Hidalgo, ME

About The Position

Plan, organize, and coordinate the resources and activities within the assigned area during project execution, ensuring the achievement of quality and schedule objectives while complying with the Company's quality standards, policies, and procedures. The Mechanical Engineering Group provides engineering-design services for pipeline facilities, covering mechanical equipment and piping system design, calculations and studies, site layouts and piping plans, requisitions, specifications, data sheets, technical evaluations, and construction drawings.

Requirements

  • 10 to 15 years of experience participating in engineering projects within their area of expertise in the Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Mining, and Infrastructure sectors.
  • Proficiency in design software and engineering tools.
  • Experience with Navisworks or similar software, AutoCAD, and Microsoft Office.
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

  • Intermediate to Advanced English proficiency
  • PMP Certification and/or Master's degree

Responsibilities

  • Understand and comply with the project scope, identifying and managing potential scope changes arising during project execution to meet both internal and external client requirements.
  • Contribute to the resolution of technical design issues within the specific discipline or across other disciplines, ensuring compliance with the planned project schedule.
  • Evaluate the progress of the discipline within the project and the efficiency of the work team to define and organize the resources required to achieve project and organizational goals and objectives.
  • Review, study, and verify the application of national and international standards, as well as design practices and procedures applicable to project execution.
  • Review and communicate lessons learned applicable to the project and document new lessons learned generated during execution to improve the technical quality of future projects.
  • Monitor the list of deliverables to the client, identifying issues or undefined aspects that may delay their completion, ensuring compliance with planned schedules.
  • Ensure compliance with the Performance Management cycle for personnel under his/her supervision.
  • Fulfill HSEQ responsibilities, functions, and authority in accordance with Company policies and procedures.
  • Develops the optimum systems based upon desired performance, space constraints, reliability, maintainability, flexibility, and cost.
  • Performs calculations and studies such as: piping material selections, liquid and gas line sizing, pipe volume, pressurizing time, purging velocity, blowdown time, orifice sizing, regulator and control valve sizing, relief valve sizing, pump NPSHA, compressed air requirements, fluid properties, building ventilation, pressure testing, and fuel gas heating.
  • Determines location, size, and arrangement of major mechanical equipment and piping. Assist with building layouts.
  • Prepares material requisitions with all supporting documents for equipment such as: Pressure Vessels and Tanks, Silencers, Pumps and Compressors, Flares, Gas Turbines and Engines, Regulators, Filters, Scrubbers, and Separators, Control Valves, Pipe, Fittings, Valves, and Valve Actuators, Gas Dehydration Equipment, Heat Exchangers and Heaters, Relief Valves, Meters and Provers, Gas Coolers.
  • Responsible for IFC drawing packages, including: PFDs and P&IDs, Equipment lists, Equipment Plot Plans, Valve lists, Piping Plans and Details, Piping line lists, Piping Isometrics, Piping tie-in lists.
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