Piping Material Engineer

NES Permanent Placement division is seeking for its client, a global leader in the engineering and construction of major projects for the energy and infrastructure sectors, both offshore and onshore for a Principal Engineer - Piping Materials in Abu Dhabi.

Job purpose:

• Ensure the good design of the material of the piping network both at technical and cost level;
• Issue technical part of inquiries, bid analysis and order for piping components;
• Interface with other Piping specialists, project specialists and designers;
• Refer to project piping and layout lead and to head of piping material section.

Responsibilities:

• The Engineer executes the activities within his area of responsibility, ensuring the compliance with the QA/QC and HSE requirements;
• Development Technology know how and Commercial support;
• Feasibility;
• Bidding phase / Commercial proposal development;
• Select critical material;
• Estimate cost;
• Project Execution
• Be responsible for the quality, respect of budget and respect of project schedule for piping material tasks;
• Review the Client technical documentation and requirements;
• Be responsible for the design of all piping components;
• Issue project piping material specification and piping components data sheets;
• Perform wall thickness calculations of pipes;
• Issue technical specification for requisition of all piping components;
• Issue technical bid evaluation for piping components offers;
• Review and approve vendors documents;
• Maintain project technical files and update Company standards;
• Perform the inter-disciplines checking for the part of documents in accordance with the scope of piping material section;
• Check documents issued by piping material engineers;
• Check the issued MTO validate by lead;
• Be responsible for the establishment of the PMMS (Piping Material Management System) data base;
• Assist inspection department;
• Prepare mechanical valve specification for body of motorized valves;
• Inform on a permanent basis the Project Piping and Layout leader of any foreseen technical or financial or delay risk;
• Issue the part of the REX in accordance with the scope of piping material section after contract completion;
• Evaluate Piping Material cost;
• Construction and start up;
• Provide technical support;
• Assist, when necessary, engineering adjustment on site;
• Home office activities (master);
• Validate cost estimate;
• Projects coordination: provide input to discipline leads ad material engineer to harmonize design and methodologies;
• Provide support to projects and procurements to solve non standards and standard problems;
• Define the modification of department work flow and dept technical standards;
• Participate to the modification of company work flow and technical standardisation;
• Collect project feed backs for continuous improvement implementation (Lesson Learned);
• Participate to vendor and outsourcing qualification;
• Participate to project/company procurement strategy (Purchasing team);
• Develop and scout tools for simplified design activities;
• Plan, control and manage outsourcing engineering center.
   

Candidate profile:

• at least 12 years of experience in a similar role;
• good knowledge and experience of piping material engineering;
• good knowledge and experience of piping specification creation, technical bid evaluation, vendor document review and vendor coordination;
• Oil&gas and/or Offshore Fixed Platform project experience and/or Gulf client experience preferred;
• Microsoft excel, Word, working knowledge is required.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.