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Covestro Deutschland AG

Principal Lead Piping Designer

Covestro Deutschland AG, BAYTOWN, TX


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What We Offer

The Principal Lead Piping Designer is responsible for the Piping technology discipline to reach project targets by leading a team of internal/ external project engineers under the guidance of EM and PM.

Major Responsibilities

  • Lead or coordinate project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, people management and troubleshooting to ensure the timely workforce support of ongoing engineering projects
  • Set the project standards to ensure project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule and cost effectiveness
  • Establish multi-discipline workflow to ensure cross communication (interface management) within piping team and within project sub-team incl. internal and external discipline (Infrastructure, by meetings, face to face, emails, set up roles and responsibility matrix)
  • Distribute piping related inputs to support project team with piping know how
  • Define & manage the design battery limits & interfaces of 3rd Parties (Piping design subcontractors/consultants; Piping contractors/vendors; EP(s)C(M) contractor's Piping design team) to exchange piping know how following the role and responsibility matrix
  • Prepare documentation for Piping (basic, detail, interface, final; e.g. in EPDS 1-99 Project File Structure) to ensure the delivery package fully compliance
  • Define Piping related workflows and guidelines, instruct technical personnel in view of legal obligation and company policy to ensure complete and consistent piping design package
  • Lead & coordinate discipline model reviews to meet business requirements across all discipline
  • Support expediting for all Piping critical items (eng. documents, technical goods) to ensure quality and quantity of piping technical goods to execute project
  • Support preparation and execution of commissioning and start-up activities for Project to meet start-up requirements


What You Offer

Basic Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent and at least 14 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams OR;
  • Associate degree in a scientific discipline and at least 10 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams OR;
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering, Chemical engineering or related and at least 8 years of work experience in chemical, oil, gas, petrochemical or pharmaceutical industry, EPC or Owner engineering teams
  • The eligibility to apply for and obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) within a reasonable timeframe


Preferred Qualifications

  • Designing institute, Engineering company, Project owner background
  • Petro chemical background
  • Project experience: Lead Engineer role or Piping Engineer role in €5 million+ projects (amount of investment)


Knowledge & Skills:

  • Expert in Plant Layout Design
  • Expert in modeling and review in S3D Suite
  • Expert in 2D design tools including Microstation and ACAD
  • Expertise in design reviews (e.g. 3D model review, SPR etc)
  • Extensive Experience in maintenance/ Turnaround /upgrade and other Brown filed projects as well as Greenfield jobs


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