Principal Piping Stress Engineer - PSC
John Wood Group
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for all piping stress analysis related activities for the project.
- Prepare project specific stress analysis technical specification.
- Prepare project specific pipe support catalogue.
- Prepare datasheets and perform technical bid evaluation for special pipe support like springs / snubbers / PTFE sliding plate etc. in accordance with the applicable codes and technical work practices.
- Prepare stress critical line list following the stress criticality criteria specified in stress analysis specification.
- Perform pipe stress analysis and provide input to piping design and structural in form of stress sketch providing support type, location and loading information.
- Ensure compliance with project specifications, as well as applicable code requirements and national / international standards.
- Maintain the required technical integrity and quality of work for all deliverables.
- Design & engineering of special supports that fall outside of standard support catalogue.
- Coordinating with all disciplines (as necessary) in the preparation and development of the deliverables and ensuring that other disciplines' input is correctly incorporated.
- Review relevant client provided data and incorporate in pipe stress engineering documents and analysis, as applicable.
- Check stress calculations performed by other engineers following the applicable work instructions and check lists.
- Checking project piping isometrics to ensure stress comments are correctly incorporated.
- Report on work status /problem areas/needs on a weekly basis.
- To comply with project QA requirements and ensure all aspects of these requirements are implemented in design.
- Liaise with and reporting to Lead Piping Engineer.
- UK bachelor's degree or equivalent in appropriate engineering subject.
- Experience in greenfield and brownfield offshore oil & gas platforms / FPSO / Refinery / Petrochemical / Chemical / Power Plants.
- Good knowledge of Piping Stress Analysis theory and Caesar II Software.
- Good understanding and experience in special analysis such as Two phases Flow, slugging, Surge Analysis, Water hammer, PSV discharge, Seismic, wind etc.
- Good understanding of Fatigue analysis for Offshore bridge piping / FPSO piping.
- Understanding Piping layout, 3D Computer Aided design, particularly PDMS / E3D.