Pipe Stress Engineer - Kiewit Power Engineering

Position Overview

Seeking a pipe stress engineer to join our growing team and help deliver safe, constructible and efficient piping systems for major power, industrial and water projects.

District Overview

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 3,000 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 140 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.
 
Our rapidly growing Power district, which includes structural, civil, piping, mechanical, process, process safety, electrical, instrument and control disciplines, is a multi-faceted division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the EPC delivery model for power facilities. We offer a variety of engineering services, including owner's engineering, project development, detailed engineering and design, construction management and plant services. Our engineering teams bring power projects to life across North America in the following areas:

• Gas-fired generation
• Power delivery
• Environmental retrofits
• Renewables and new technology
• Water/wastewater
• Carbon Free - Nuclear

Location

This position is base dout of our office in Calgary, AB with opportunity for flexible work. 

Responsibilities

• Perform thermal flexibility analyses  for critical piping systems to ensure system integrity and compliance with ASME Codes, using AutoPIPE.
• Perform analysis of sustained, thermal displacement, occasional (wind, seismic, relief, turbine trip etc.) and test (hydrotest) loads.
• Use AutoPIPE to ensure acceptable piping nozzle loads on equipment like steam turbines, compressors, pumps, tanks, exchangers, heaters etc.
• Select appropriate pipe supports and develop detailed and individualized specifications for their procurement.  This includes shoes, guides, rigid rod hangers, spring hangers, snubbers, and struts.
• Calculate and organize pipe support loads transmitted to structural steel into an Excel format that can be easily interpreted by structural and other disciplines.
• Perform supplemental calculations for localized stresses to verify the integrity of fittings, attachments and other irregular geometries using manual calculations, Excel, Mathcad or NozzlePro

Qualifications

• Power plant design experience (or related plant design experience) with an emphasis in pipe stress analysis/design and support.
• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, structural engineering, or equivalent engineering program from an ABET accredited four-year university.
• Engineer-In-Training (EIT) certification required; Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
• Prefer proficiency with AutoPIPE pipe stress analysis software or combination of AutoPIPE and CAESAR or advanced stress analysis skills in CAESAR II.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English with comfort collaborating in hybrid environments (face-to-face, video calls, Teams, email).
• Knowledge of design codes and standards applicable for Pipe Support design work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Teams and Excel.