Job ID: 11701
Location:
Category: Engineering & Manufacturing
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 03/10/2026
Job Description
Principal Piping Designer
Location: Portland, OR
Location: Portland, OR
Description:
Quality Assurance & Technical Oversight
Conceptual Design
- Verify that piping designs meet applicable national codes, standards, project design bases, and material specifications
- Ensure QA and checking activities align with scope, schedule, LOD requirements, and project deliverables
- Participate in technical meetings, model reviews, and interdisciplinary design reviews
- Develop and maintain the Project QA and Design Verification Plan in coordination with Global QA
- Review engineering documents including drawings, datasheets, specifications, vendor packages, and specialty piping data for accuracy, fit, function, and compliance
- Evaluate equipment and piping layouts for constructability and installation efficiency
- Review pipe support locations, spans, and compatibility with pipe stress requirements
- Provide clear redlines, feedback, and correction guidance to designers/drafters to improve overall design quality
- Work closely with project delivery teams, Piping Design Leads, Engineering Managers, and multidiscipline design teams
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to designers and checking staff
- Support improvements to discipline workflows, tools, and standards
- Identify potential scope changes and support schedule, budget, and staffing forecasts for QA activities
- Engage in internal, cross?discipline, and external quality reviews
Conceptual Design
- Support conceptual and schematic design reviews, including positioning and SMP phases
- Perform compliance reviews to ensure design inputs are consistently applied
- Review space planning deliverables and batch flyers
- Conduct P&ID peer reviews and perform P&ID reconciliation
- Review plot plans, equipment GAs, piping plans, details, support locations, and spans
- Perform formal checks of the detailed design piping model
- Verify drawings for accuracy, completeness, and adherence to project standards
- Validate piping material takeoffs against project specifications and LOD criteria
- Identify and resolve potential interferences between piping and other disciplines using the project’s clash detection procedures
- Evaluate designs for constructability, operability, maintainability, and Safety in Design (SID) considerations
- Ensure systems can be safely fabricated, installed, and maintained
- Provide QA findings to support lessons learned, training, and continuous improvement
- 15+ years of piping design experience, including 10+ years in a checking or QA leadership role
- Proficient in Navis
- Prefer familiarity in at least one major CAD platform; CADWorx or Revit
- Strong capability in conducting and leading detailed model reviews
- Deep technical knowledge of pipe routing, stress considerations, supports, materials, and industry standards
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to identify design inconsistencies early
