Principal Piping Engineer

About the Role and Company

Worley is an international leader in professional services for the energy, chemical, and resource sectors. Our commitment is to collaborate with clients to manage projects effectively and maximize asset value while facilitating a transition towards sustainable energy solutions alongside fulfilling current energy, chemical, and resource demands.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate standardization of equipment specs, drawings, and document templates to ensure consistency.
• Apply technical knowledge, legal stipulations, and customer-specific requirements where feasible and lawful.
• Utilize both local and global standards to uphold technical excellence.
• Identify essential software tools critical for the effective operation of the piping group.
• Offer technical expertise, supervision, and advice within the discipline and project teams.
• Participate actively in peer reviews ensuring quality and compliance.
• Guarantee adherence to best engineering practices for piping design and plant layout applicable for onshore and offshore projects.
• Understand project scope, budget, and scheduling to ensure fulfillment of expectations and collaborate with other disciplines for project success.
• Support project change management and progress, coordinating with project management to address any issues affecting staffing, scope, schedule, or profitability.
• Plan and monitor the quality control activities of the discipline; promote squad checking and recommend and implement enhancements where necessary.
• Engage with project teams to review documentation including proposals, cost estimates, budgets, and timelines.
• Lead weekly piping project meetings, review progress, and supervise required quality checks.
• Analyze technical challenges, propose alternative solutions evaluating benefits and drawbacks, and document recommendations through official channels such as technical queries and deviation reports.
• Define discipline deliverables and manage them according to agreed schedules.
• Lead the detailed design processes, including generating drawings, specifications, data, calculations, and technical reports.

Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Expectations

• Maintain a consistent focus on health, safety, and environmental requirements within the team.
• Exemplify behaviors aligned with a culture of best practices in health, safety, and environmental performance.
• Demonstrate active commitment to personal well-being and safe workplace practices.

Industry Experience and Expertise

• Significant senior-level experience in piping engineering within the Oil & Gas sector encompassing onshore and offshore projects.
• Proven leadership in design and engineering teams, specifically managing piping discipline engineers and designers.
• Deep technical and practical knowledge in piping, including leadership of multidisciplinary projects.
• Specialized expertise in stress analysis under unbalanced and transient conditions, complex hot-tapping and plugging of C3/C4 services, and familiarity with Inconel 625 material specifications and datasheets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Mandatory MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation or willingness to obtain it during probationary period.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) certification or progress toward it is advantageous.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Our company fosters an inclusive and respectful workplace culture that embraces diversity and ensures all employees feel welcomed and heard regardless of age, race, religion, gender, disability, or any legally protected status. We provide equal employment opportunity and focus on developing our people’s skills to adapt to the evolving energy sector.