Pipe Stress Engineer - Kiewit Power Engineering

Position Overview

*Pipe Stress Engineer – Kiewit Power Engineering*  
Seeking a skilled 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 would be based out of our office in Lenexa, KS; however, we have opportunity for flexible work based on your experience and level.

Responsibilities

Analysis and Design

• 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

Documentation and Review

• Organize and maintain AutoPIPE analysis, reference documentation and supplemental calculations in project folders maintaining established file naming convention and integrity of the revision history.
• Prepare stress calculation packages to document design basis, verify proper checking and signoffs and to track revision history.  
• Check AutoPIPE analysis and stress calculations performed by other members of the piping engineering group.
• Review piping isometric drawings in to ensure pipe supports, piping materials, fittings and other details align with the AutoPIPE analysis.
• Review P&IDs, Line Designation tables and thermal performance data to ensure alignment between the overall system design, stress analysis and piping isometric drawings.
• Review and check designs, drawings, interface detail and data from external suppliers of components like pipe supports, valves and rotating equipment.

Collaboration and Coordination 

• Collaborate with the structural engineering team, issuing pipe support loads imposed on the structural steel and refine the details and interactions at structural steel to pipe support contact or connection points.
• Collaborate with designers, mechanical engineers, structural engineers and the construction team to optimize pipe routing and support schemes.
• Follow established workflows, and work diligently to meet aggressive schedule demands in support of construction.

Qualifications

• 2+ years 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 IM, email).
• Knowledge of design codes and standards applicable for Pipe Support design work.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools including Outlook, Teams and Excel.
   

Our engineers regularly work in a multi-application environment, referencing 3D models, spreadsheets, PDFs and communication tools concurrently with AutoPIPE analysis.  Candidates should be comfortable navigating multiple digital tools simultaneously. #LI-SM1