Principal Piping Engineer

Principal Piping Engineer – EPC DesignLocation: Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Industry: Oil & Energy | Function: Mechanical Engineering |

Experience:
15-20 years |

Job Type
Full-timeMcDermott International, Ltd is hiring an accomplished piping professional to lead discipline teams, resolve complex engineering challenges, control technical deliverables, and ensure piping design work meets project specifications, international codes, schedules, budgets, and client expectations. Job DetailsCountry: United Arab EmiratesCity: DubaiIndustry: Oil and EnergyFunction: Mechanical EngineeringSalary: 30,000 – 45,000 (estimated; final offer to be confirmed with the employer)Gender: Any | Nationality: Any |

Job Type
Full-timeRole ContextThe Principal Piping Engineer serves as a senior technical authority across piping design, layout, stress engineering, supports, materials, modelling, and material take‐off activities. The role supports the full project lifecycle from early engineering studies through FEED, EPC design, procurement, fabrication, construction, and technical closeout.

Key Responsibilities
Perform conceptual, Pre‐FEED, FEED, and detailed piping design analyses in accordance with the approved scope of work, design basis, project specifications, codes, standards, and McDermott procedures. Complete assigned engineering activities within approved schedules, budgets, quality requirements, and professional standards. Apply extensive technical and commercial knowledge to resolve complex piping problems and non‐standard project situations. Identify significant technical, scope, schedule, cost, or resource concerns early and report them to project and departmental management. Prepare and approve detailed engineering calculations, design reports, technical philosophies, specifications, and procedures. Plan personal assignments, forecast workload, and identify future engineering resource requirements. Lead engineers and designers in evaluating technically complex problems and developing innovative, practical solutions. Interpret internal and external project challenges and recommend improvements to engineering methods, technology, processes, or services. Explain difficult engineering concepts clearly and negotiate technically justified solutions with clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams. Maintain strict compliance with health, safety, environmental, quality, and project execution requirements. Direct medium or large piping engineering and design teams when assigned as Lead Engineer. Lead discipline execution for assigned projects or work areas and ensure completion within the approved schedule and budget. Plan, organize, and direct piping scope, deliverables, interfaces, schedules, manpower, and technical resources. Confirm that discipline responsibilities, project interfaces, and required inputs are clearly defined. Monitor engineering progress, productivity, and performance and initiate corrective actions where required. Represent the piping discipline during meetings with clients, project management, certification bodies, auditors, third parties, and relevant agencies. Develop a complete understanding of the project scope, specifications, schedule, contract requirements, and multidisciplinary dependencies. Coordinate with process, mechanical, structural, civil, electrical, instrumentation, construction, fabrication, procurement, planning, and project controls teams. Interface with High‐Value Engineering Centers and ensure their scope, responsibilities, deliverables, and schedule requirements are understood. Prepare piping isometric production curves using project inputs and the approved Level3 schedule. Review the piping budget and provide discipline inputs to the Project Execution Plan. Assign tasks, responsibilities, deliverables, and man‐hour budgets to piping sub‐disciplines. Verify that assigned work is completed within approved man‐hours and technical requirements. Lead and support three‐dimensional model reviews at 30percent, 60percent, and 90percent completion. Provide piping inputs to Level2, Level3, and Level4 project schedules. Review schedule dependencies and identify risks affecting piping engineering, modelling, procurement, or construction deliverables. Prepare discipline forecasts and promptly raise notifications for identified scope changes. Alert project leadership when work deviates from the approved scope or requires a formal change order. Develop piping man‐hour estimates, schedules, deliverable registers, and discipline execution plans. Review and approve piping design philosophies, specifications, pipe support documents, standard details, material take‐offs, and material requisitions. Ensure approved documents comply with contract requirements, technical standards, and project scope. Monitor discipline key performance indicators and implement corrective actions where performance falls below target. Lead piping participation during inter