SUMMARY:
Piping Lead Engineer – 2-year contract – Johannesburg / Cape Town

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Piping and Piping Mechanical Engineering activities for the Client’s Project, providing technical expertise for the design of new infrastructure and modifications to existing
• Understand and conversant with South African legislative requirements for piping and piping mechanical engineering (SANS).
• Oversee, monitor, and liaise with EPC contractors to ensure Project success at every
• Coordinate and participate in review of EPC engineering documents/deliverables to ensure compliance with the contractual requirements, including project procedures, project specifications and applicable codes and
• Provide piping engineering expertise providing input to piping and layout
• Define piping requirements for technical
• Review and assess piping and piping stress calculations, Ceasar calcs
• Review calculations and documentation to enable development of deliverables used in work packs and for supply
• Provide support to the Engineering manager and the project delivery
• Resolve piping related engineering issues, queries, and clarifications by applying accepted principles, codes, and
• Assure technical integrity of piping
• Provide support for inter-discipline considerations through attendance at required design reviews and undertaking inter discipline checking HAZOP/HAZID, Model reviews, studies, value engineering
• Utilise software tools in design development and checking (e.g. Navisworks, E3D)
• Coordinates with other SMEs, Ops, and maintenance to ensure that multi-discipline interfaces are addressed with resolution of technical issues and conflicting design requirements and returned to EPC in agreed time
• Communicates any complex technical issues and recommend solutions to project
• Carry out or co-ordinate mechanical checks of piping for early works and Tie-ins as required. Liaise with plant inspector & review inspection findings and carry out integrity checks Alternatively determine repair/replacement solutions where required.
• If requested visit the fabrication shop and carry out quality audits
• Knowledgeable with piping pre-fabrication, installation, testing and
• Participate in relevant meetings, prepare progress reports, and follow required checking
• Ensure changes are captured and comply with project change management
• Responsible for performing field activities monitoring day-to-day work of contractors/sub- contractors, reporting all potential safety and quality issues, assisting with cost, progress, and materials
• Provide feedback on lessons learnt to aide in continuous

• Bachelors` degree in mechanical engineering
• ECSA Registration

• 15+ years of experience in piping engineering roles, preferably within the oil and gas industry and in particular refining and storage
• Proficient experience across all engineering life cycle phase covering FEED, Detailed Design, EPC Contractor Management, Construction, Operations and Maintenance.
• Strong technical expertise in process design, and relevant software tools