Principal Piping Engineer - UK Energy

At WSP, there’s nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow’s world that's cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose : creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.

At WSP, you’ll find yourself challenged in more fascinating and far-reaching ways than ever before. You’ll explore new and inspiring opportunities to make the most of your expertise, broaden your professional horizons and create exciting new possibilities for people, organisations and society in general.

We are seeking to recruit a Senior / Principal Piping Engineer to join our Energy Transition iCRC India Team helping to contribute towards its continuing success. Working as part of a large engineering group the role requires the candidate to lead the development of Mechanical designs on a wide range of Energy projects, including conventional power plant, energy from waste plants, industrial facilities and carbon capture schemes.

The UK Energy Transition team provides services to our Clients and their projects from initial inception through development and construction to operation and decommissioning. An approach that sees us support our clients over the entire Lifecyle of a project.

Our team’s expertise covers all thermal generation and conversion technologies and includes novel, first of a kind concepts and other low or zero carbon technology such as future fuels and carbon capture, utilisation and storage. Working together with private developers, power utilities, government bodies, banks, lending agencies, contractors and OEMs we safely deliver projects whilst meeting and exceeding client expectations.

The candidate should be experienced in the delivery of concept, FEED and detail design work, and be familiar with working for an OEM, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contractor or a similar organisation. Experience of working in Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and an understanding of asset integrity processes and procedures would be advantageous to help support our clients with technical advice on their existing facilities and operational plant.

Location is Bangalore

CORE FUNCTIONS

A typical week would include :

• Working with the project team to develop cost-effective, efficient and innovative solutions to complex problems to create practical designs based on these solutions;
• Working on projects in a variety of stages of maturity, including Feasibility Studies, Concept Designs, FEED Studies, Value Engineering and Detailed Design. There will be opportunities for site work during project development, construction and commissioning;
• Preparation of Piping deliverables such as wall thickness calculations, piping specifications, datasheets for valves, expansion joints, and other piping components;
• Undertaking detailed piping stress analysis;
• Working closely with process engineers in development of process flow diagrams and piping & instrumentation diagrams;
• Supporting development of plant layouts and plant 3D models;
• Provide engineering advice and technical solutions in relation to plant integrity issues on operational assets;
• Developing proposals and bids for the piping and layout discipline and contributing to multi-disciplinary proposals;
• Provide technical leadership and governance; and
• Coach and mentor junior staff to develop their expertise and knowledge

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