Senior Pipeline Design

What Vista Does  Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients  navigate the digital transformation  of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.
Why We Do It  We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.
Where We Work  The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.
What You Would Do in This Role  The  Senior Pipeline Design Lead provides supervision and working leadership of drafters and designers in piping, CSA or EIC. The Design Lead also oversees the design of different aspects of energy industry related projects from inception to completion.

Duties include:

Planning, allocating and reviewing work programs. This includes updating Forecast Web on a weekly basis and ensuring it is suitably completed to align with the demand of the Project/Program Manager. The forecast should be updated to current project plans and changes to work plans/resourcing needs are communicated through change management to project stakeholders.
Preparing weekly progress reports for each project including work completed, work planned for the following week and discipline needs
Updating project schedule on a weekly basis including marking tasks which are completed, in progress, and any potential delays. In addition, ensure tasks are listed correctly in schedule. Project schedule along with tasks and deliverables are reviewed and maintained in conjunction with Project Management.
Establishing scopes of work, man-hour estimates, schedules and priorities for projects and proposals
Scheduling and expediting department work
Providing leadership and mentorship to project/program discipline design team
Providing technical and quality guidance to department staff
Ensuring the design and drafting team are completing high quality work within the required time and budget constraints
Attending status meetings with clients, project management and suppliers
Coordinating interfaces with other disciplines
Maintaining current knowledge of industry and regulatory standards
Assigning and reviewing work of discipline design and drafting staff
Ensuring adherence to Vista Quality Management System (QMS)
Preparing layouts, calculations and designs related to the most complicated elements of projects
Ensuring all drawings and materials are in accordance with Vista and client specifications and standards
Approving completed drawings
Supporting development, implementation and maintenance of discipline design standards, checklists and procedures
Making general recommendations on the utilization of new drafting/design techniques, normally within an area of specialization
Analyzing design elements for potential trends, technical feasibility, client or contractual requirements
Supporting discipline man-hour estimates for proposals
Providing construction support
Preparing and reviewing complex 3D models for accuracy and completeness in accordance with established industry, client and Vista design criteria
Acting as the 3D model manager, ensuring seamless interfaces with other engineering disciplines to incorporate design elements and vendor data such as equipment location, piping routing, structural steel, foundations, cable trays, inline instrumentation, offline instruments and panels
Facilitating plot plan reviews, model reviews and constructability reviews with the assistance of one or more senior designers
Ensuring design review action items are closed in a timely manner.
Preparing and checking isometrics, general arrangements, MTOs, plot plans, key plans and equipment location plans
Performing other duties as requested
Requirements   Eight years of progressive…