Job ID: 11534
Location: Cary, North Carolina
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 01/13/2026
Job Description
Location: Cary, NC
Responsibilities:
What You’ll Do:
- Serve as the primary discipline lead for piping engineering and design, ensuring compliance with company standards, procedures, and quality expectations.
- Supervise all aspects of pipe design, including layout development, routing, and coordination with other disciplines.
- Oversee project level piping material specifications, ensuring proper selection for process, utility, and specialty systems.
- Maintain strong client relationships, understanding their expectations and promptly communicating scope or design changes.
- Oversee project earned value, monitor progress, and manage change effectively.
- Develop person-hour estimates, allocate resources, and determine staff effectiveness—who does what and when.
- Oversee project level piping stress analysis activities, coordinating with stress engineers to ensure system integrity and compliance with applicable codes.
- Drive successful global workshare execution through heightened communication and strategic coordination.
- Be able to communicate definitive expertise around Piping and Facility Layout principles
- Review vendor drawings, execute piping engineering design, and develop design estimates.
- Keep construction costs and safety measures at the forefront of all decisions.
- Mentor and guide team members, fostering growth and technical excellence.
Comments/Special Instructions
- Position requires 40% of in-office at Cary location (2 of 5 days)
Qualifications:
Here’s What You’ll Need:
- Associate’s degree (AA) in Computer Aided Drafting and Design or similar technical degree
- 15+ years of piping engineering or design experience, with at least 5 years in a lead or supervisory role.
- Proven ability to manage scope, schedule, and budget for complex industrial projects.
- Advanced knowledge of piping codes and standards (ASME, B31.3, BPE, etc.).
- Software Expertise: Ideally, you can model in Revit or AutoCAD Plant 3D, but at a minimum, you must have proven history utilizing these tools with coordination of global teams.
- Strong understanding of constructability, safety, and cost control principles.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills to manage multi-discipline teams and client interactions.
Ideally You Will Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or advanced manufacturing facilities.
- Familiarity with pipe stress analysis and integration with design deliverables.
- Demonstrated success in global workshare execution and remote team leadership.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers and designers, fostering technical growth.
- Strong business acumen with an understanding of earned value management and change control processes.
- Advanced proficiency in Revit and AutoCAD Plant 3D. Some past experience with Hexagon SmartPlant 3D.

