Principal Piping Engineer

About the Role

Worley is a leading global professional services firm specializing in energy, chemicals, and resources, partnering with clients to deliver projects and value throughout their asset lifecycle. We are actively advancing towards sustainable energy while continuing to support current energy infrastructure needs.

Key Duties

• Standardize equipment specs, drawings, and documentation templates to ensure consistency.
• Enhance understanding of technical requirements, legal norms, and client specifications where feasible and lawful.
• Leverage local and international standards to maintain technical excellence within piping engineering.
• Identify and recommend software tools essential for efficient piping group operations.
• Provide expert technical guidance, supervision, and peer review participation for discipline and project teams.
• Ensure that recognized onshore and offshore practices for piping design and plant layout are implemented within the discipline.
• Understand project scope, cost, and scheduling requirements; coordinate with other disciplines to meet project goals.
• Assist project management in controlling project changes, staffing, scope variations, and overall discipline progress to safeguard profitability and timely completion.
• Plan and monitor discipline quality activities, promote squad checking processes, suggest enhancements, and execute corrective measures as needed.
• Collaborate in reviewing project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets, and schedules.
• Lead weekly piping discipline meetings, oversee progress reports, and ensure adherence to checking protocols.
• Identify and resolve technical challenges, assess alternative solutions with pros and cons, and provide recommendations through formal project documents like queries and deviations.
• Define discipline deliverables, control and track their progress according to agreed timelines.
• Lead detailed design development including drawings, specifications, data, calculations, and reports.

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)

• Maintain focused HSE practices within the team to comply with occupational health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Exhibit behaviors aligned with best-in-class health, safety, and environmental performance standards.
• Actively promote personal well-being and a safe, healthy workplace and activities.

Industry and Technical Experience

• Extensive senior-level piping engineering experience in the Oil & Gas sector, including both onshore and offshore projects.
• Proven background in piping design and engineering leadership, managing teams of engineers and designers.
• Demonstrated technical expertise and leadership in piping discipline across multidisciplinary projects.
• Specialized knowledge in stress analysis (unbalanced and transient conditions), complex hot-tapping and plugging of C3/C4 services, and experience with Inconel 625 material specifications and datasheets.

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Mandatory Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) engineering accreditation, or willingness to obtain it during probation.
• Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status is preferred or actively pursued.

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and diverse working environment where every individual can thrive, be heard, and feel a sense of belonging. We uphold equal opportunity employment practices and avoid discrimination based on any legally protected characteristics.

Our culture encourages innovation and sustainable impact by reskilling employees and supporting transitions towards expertise in low carbon energy technologies.

Opportunities for growth, diverse experiences, and meaningful career development paths are available to support your ambitions within the company.