KOE - Lead Piping Designer

Position Overview

We are an innovative team of engineers and designers that supports projects throughout the company. Our staff leads and collaborates with Kiewit’s module fabrication and construction teams to approach construction-driven engineering with a focus on safe, cost effective, and innovative designs that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit’s legacy of excellence.

District Overview

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc. is a full-service engineering firm serving oil, gas and chemical markets. Our combined staff of engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve the LNG, midstream, refining, and petrochemical markets. Backed by 130 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 oil, gas and chemical team, which includes structural, civil, piping, mechanical, process, process safety, electrical, instrument and control disciplines, is a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the EPCC delivery model for dynamic process facilities. 

Location

This position is based out of our Energy Corridor Office in Houston, TX and typically requires less than 25 percent travel.

Responsibilities

•    Leads team to solutions based on internal or external demands.
•    Identifies potential issues and gaps in design and collaborates with team to direct on resolution.
•    Leads team to best cost options while maintaining safety and quality.
•    Sets pace to meet or beat schedule and deadlines.
•    Takes identified issues from team to higher level with solutions.
•    Leads and directs team for multiple projects that may use various client standards.
•    Leads and promotes team to find innovative working methods to generate new ideas.
•    Collaborates with team to find best cost solutions while maintaining quality of drawings.
•    Leads team to identify changes in scope of work during a large project and produces engineering design changes as needed to stay within budget and schedule.
•    Leads quality checks of the design drawings of a major project to ensure accuracy.

Qualifications

•     Associate degree or High School diploma + 2 years’ experience as a minimum
•     18-25 years' minimum relevant experience.
•     Travel < 25% expected.
•     Acts independently to determine methods and processes for assignments.
•     Trains and leads team of designers as needed.
•     Leads team for work with high complexity.
•     Work with project team as representative and coordinates work within discipline department.
•     Adjusts to varying demands of work and performs well.
•     Develops and presents work in well-constructed written and verbal presentations.  Clearly conveys messages and ideas, gains understanding.
•     Communicates effectively across all departments of organization.
•     Works collaboratively across departments and with field to solve problems.
•     Supports project teams and departments in a positive and productive manner. Works well with other to accomplish common goals and objectives. 
•     Advanced skills in AutoCAD.
•     Continuously looking for ways to improve processes for customers and makes recommendations for improvements.

Working Conditions