Our San Antonio, TX client is seeking a contract Lead Designer – Mechanical/Piping professional.  This is a 3-4 month long assignment.                                  

Job Responsibilities:
Responsible for the production and coordination of Mechanical/Piping (P&ID, Piping, Civil & Structural) drawings and Engineering Design/Project Completion (as-built) services deliverables for plant construction projects for all Gas Pipeline facilities.
This position involves the oversight of internal design & drafting personnel and third party engineering/design firms with respect to initial setup, ongoing execution, completion of design and as-built services throughout the plant project lifecycle with lead responsibilities in quality control as well as assistance in the development and adherence to departmental drafting standards.
This position requires an employee that has a in-depth technical background associated with all of the different mechanical/piping systems (i.e. major/minor gas, lube oil, jacket water, cooling water, fuel gas, etc.) at all natural gas facilities including compressor, meter & regulator, storage and process.
Incumbent must posses an in-depth understanding of maintenance capital, compressor expansion, and metering projects. This includes services pertaining to design, drawing and information deliverables for bid packages, construction packages and final as-built documents.
Duties also include drawings generation from field sketches provided by field operations or project engineering. Also to facility as-built drawings from red-lined construction information provided by project engineering to complete the life cycle of expansion projects.
Specific administrative duties include progress reporting, identifying and documenting new methods to enhance current departmental processes, project man-hour estimating along with other miscellaneous design work activities related to performing as a project lead.
Position shall also serve as a departmental contact to provide archived historical drawings in print or electronic form as requested by operations, project engineering or third party engineering firms.
Individual will perform field audit trips as required during construction to ensure quality red-line mark-up information is collected and transposed to “Field Check” sets enabling as-built drafting process is less problematic.

Qualifications:
Minimum 20 years engineering design experience in the natural gas industry.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Two year degree in Applied Science or an Engineering related field from an accredited college or equivalent education and experience preferred.
Ability to create an as-built package of Mechanical/Piping drawings that include plot plans, piping area plans, P&ID’s and piping isometrics and civil layouts.
Ability to work as a team member with project engineering, third party engineering/design personnel and other designers and drafters.
Minimum of 10 years experience directing internal design drafting personnel and temporary contractors.
Minimum of 15 years direct work experience in AutoCad (AutoCAD 2004 or later) CADD applications. Cad works experience preferred.
Experience in records management environment, preferably FileNet storage system.

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