Summary
Worley is a global professional services company working across energy, chemicals and resources. The Principal Piping Engineer provides technical leadership and support to piping and project teams, oversees design deliverables and quality activities, and coordinates with other disciplines. The role requires extensive senior-level piping engineering experience on onshore and offshore oil and gas projects, including team leadership and expertise in stress conditions, hot tapping and Inconel 625. A bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and MME engineering accreditation are required; candidates without the accreditation must be willing to obtain it during the probationary period.
The posting
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Building on our past. Ready for the future
Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We’re bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.
Key Responsibilities
- Supports the standardization of equipment specifications, drawings, and document templates.
- Contributes to the understanding of technical knowledge, legal requirements, and customer specifications whenever viable and lawful.
- Uses local/global standards to support technical excellence.
- Identifies software necessary to enable piping group to function effectively.
- Provide specialist technical support, supervision and advice to the discipline and project teams; participate in peer reviews;
- Ensures recognised onshore & offshore engineering practices applicable to piping design and topside/plant layout are adopted within the discipline.
- Knows the project and discipline scope/cost/time requirements, ensures the team to meets the expectations, and liaises with other disciplines to ensure project success.
- Supports management of project change and progressing for the discipline and works with the Project Management Team to take corrective actions regarding any issues, staffing requirements, scope changes, progressing, or other events that could affect project completion and/or profitability.
- Plans discipline quality, monitors quality activities, drives squad checking, recommends improvements, and takes action where required.
- Collaborates with project team in review of project documentation such as proposals, estimates, budgets and schedules.
- Leads weekly piping meetings, reviews progress reports and required checking procedures.
- Determines technical issues, defines alternate solutions, establishes pros/cons for multiple solutions, and makes recommendations through official project documents such as technical queries, technical deviations, etc.
- Establish a list of discipline deliverables. Controls, monitors and progresses these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
- Lead the production of detailed designs and drawings, specifications, data, calculations and reports .
HSE Capability:
- Maintain HSE focus with the team to ensure OHSE requirements.
- Demonstrate behaviour and business practices commensurate with a culture of world’s best health, safety and environmental performance.
- Demonstrate a visible and active commitment to:
- personal well-being.
healthy and safe workplaces and activities.
Industry Specific Experience:
- Extensive Piping Engineering experience at a senior level within the Oil & Gas industry in both Onshore and Offshore projects.
- Design & Engineering experience within the oil and gas industry, with recent experience leading a team of piping discipline engineers and designers.
- Extensive technical, practical and leadership experience in the piping discipline in the same or similar industry, including experience managing and leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams.
- Expertise on stress (unbalanced / transient conditions), complicated hot-tapping plugging of C3/C4 services, Inconel 625 materials specs and datasheets
Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:
- Full-Time bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from an accredited university.
- MME (Ministry of Municipality and Environment) engineering accreditation is a mandatory requirement. Candidates not holding this accreditation must be willing to achieve this within the probationary period.
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or undertaking the same will be an advantage.
Moving forward together
We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can bring themselves, and are heard. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by law.
We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.
And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.
Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.