CT Field Eng Piping Management

Overview

Tek Wissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a trusted engineering, construction and project management partner to industry and government. Differentiated by the quality of their people and their relentless drive to deliver the most successful outcomes, they align their capabilities to their customers' objectives to create a lasting positive impact.

Since 1898, they helped customers complete more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries on all seven continents that have created jobs, grown economies, improved the resiliency of the world's infrastructure, increased access to energy, resources, and vital services, and made the world a safer, cleaner place.

Job Title: CT Field Eng Piping Management
Location: BrownsvilleTX, 78520
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite

• The Piping Testing Superintendent (Day or Night Shift) will be responsible for the Pneumatic Testing Scope of Work.
• Responsible for directing all night-shift piping activities related to large-scale pneumatic testing for approximately 250,000 linear feet of process and utility piping.
• Ensures safe, compliant, and timely execution of test packages while coordinating closely with day-shift leadership, system engineers, QC, and construction crews to maintain schedule alignment across all work fronts.

Lead, supervise, and coordinate night-shift crews performing pneumatic pressure testing on assigned systems, ensuring adherence to project procedures, test plans, and safety protocols.

• Review test boundaries, isometrics, P&IDs, and engineering documentation to confirm system readiness.
• Manage pre-test verification including line walks, isolation checks, blinds, gauge calibration, and manifold setup.
• Oversee execution of pneumatic tests, ensuring stability, proper pressurization rate, leak detection, and compliance with allowable pressure drop tolerances.
• Mitigate hazards associated with stored energy, pressure containment, and component failure by enforcing strict exclusion zones, barricading, and Life-Critical Rules.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues such as valve leakage, instrument failures, inadequate isolation, cold-work conflicts, or material defects.
• Coordinate with QA/QC for hold points, documentation sign-off, punch list creation, and post-test restoration.
• Drive nightly progress reporting, manpower allocation, equipment needs, and forecasted completions.
• Work proactively with survey, scaffolding, coatings, and other interfacing disciplines to remove work blockers.
• Maintain accurate records of test pressures, durations, failures, retests, and sign-off packages for turnover to completions and commissioning.
• Train and mentor foremen and craft workers on pneumatic testing hazards, procedures, and best practices.
• Support system prioritization to meet turnover milestones, critical path activities, and hydro/pneumatic sequencing.

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience.

• Knowledge of a single or multi-discipline construction or engineering operation relating to field activities.
• Knowledge of Clients Zero Accident Philosophy.
• Knowledge of the Project ES&H Handbook, the Supervisor's ES&H Manual, the Project Safety Management Plan and the Clients Core Processes.
• Experience on an LNG construction site especially along the country Gulf Coast.
• Heavy industrial direct hire construction experience commensurate with the type of work to be undertaken.
• Experience in oil, gas, refinery, petrochemical, minerals processing or power generating station construction is preferred.
• Computer literate in word processing, spreadsheets, and database applications.
• Working knowledge of applicable industry codes and standards.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving ability.

Tek Wissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.