Principal Piping Designer

Title: Principal Piping Designer

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

KBR is seeking a Principal Piping Designer / Site Lead to serve in a hybrid role that combines advanced piping design responsibilities with site leadership duties. The position is expected to be approximately 90% focused on piping design activities and 10% dedicated to site lead responsibilities,providing technical oversight, coordination, and support for field execution activities.

The successful candidate will independently apply advanced engineering design techniques, make decisions on complex engineering design challenges, and represent the organization in meetings and discussions to resolve critical technical issues or coordinate with engineers, clients, contractors, and other stakeholders. As the primary design resource, this individual will develop and review piping designs, ensure compliance with project requirements and industry standards, and provide technical guidance and mentorship to other designers.

In the Site Lead capacity, the candidate will serve as the on-site point of contact for design-related matters, supporting construction and operations teams, facilitating communication between project stakeholders, coordinating design issue resolution, and helping ensure project objectives are achieved safely, efficiently, and on schedule.

This role requires a high degree of technical expertise, independent judgment, and leadership. The individual will be consulted extensively by project teams and management, with significant reliance placed on their technical interpretations, recommendations, and problem-solving abilities. Through both design excellence and site leadership, this position contributes directly to project success and overall value creation.

This position is located at a client site in La Porte, TX. No relocation or per diem will be offered.

Functional job responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Aid in developing piping discipline design schedules and updating regularly
• Work to meet any and all deadlines as required by project schedules
• Perform fieldwork, pulling measurements, locating tie-ins, as-building existing systems, etc. develop detailed scopes
• Create new and/or revise existing 2-D MicroStation drawings (P&ID’s, arrangements, sections, details, supports, diagrams
• Create arrangements, plans and isometrics using 3-D software
• Assemble design packages (for piping/mechanical portion) including scope of work, transmittal, drawings, vendor information, and E3D generated bill of materials (pipe, pipe components, fasteners, gaskets, and pipe supports).
• Work from P&ID's, client specifications and vendor data to design complex piping systems for a chemical facility
• Conduct design reviews for construction, maintenance, and operations personnel using 2-D drawings and E3D 3-D software
• Ensure completed design is functional, maintainable and designed with safety and that all applicable codes have been followed and maintained
• Interface with other disciplines
• Work with Construction as needed during the installation of the project.
• Review work of team members within pipe design
• Review project design estimates and work scopes for new projects .

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of PDMS/E3D experience
• Minimum of 8 years of piping design experience
• Proficient in MicroStation and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) preferred
• Great communication skills and ability to lead project reviews
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary design team
• Field experience is preferred.
• Candidate must be able to:
• Stand or sit for periods of up to 4 hours
• In case of an emergency wear a 5 minute escape pack, carry app. 8 lb. bottle of air to an evacuation point and then if necessary, carry the bottle while walking app. 10 minutes to an alternate evacuation point
• Climb stairs and ladders

Decarbonization – Energy Transition – Sustainability

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