Principal Piping Engineer

Job Title

Principal Piping Engineer (HOU
04C9)

Worley

USA-TX-Houston

Piping

Full-time

Employee

Jul 9, 2026

As a Principal Piping Engineer at Worley, the successful candidate will be a part of a global team that delivers excellent project services to our customers throughout the world. He/She will be responsible for comprehensive engineering, design, and coordination services for projects in the piping engineering group.

• Perform initial project planning regarding project scope, design basis, effort hour budget, staffing requirements, deliverables, and execution procedure.
• Knowledgeable of company, department and project procedures and ensure all are followed throughout a project.
• Establish and trend estimate quantities.
• Monitor the progress for all piping engineering activities regarding budget, schedule, and staffing and report results to Project Management and Department Management.
• Coordinate the efforts of multiple engineers assigned to a single project.
• Ensure the deliverable verification process, and that all deliverables are issued according to schedule.
• Participate in weekly project discipline team meetings and conduct weekly piping design team meetings.
• Proactively collaborate with internal teams and/or external third parties to meet project commitments, costs, and schedules.
• Support piping material requisition, technical bid evaluation and vendor documents of piping related items.
• Specify piping material classes, valves, and piping specialty items on Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&).
• Conduct document checking and design verification tasks in accordance with company and project procedures.
• Select, specify, and requisition manual valves.
• Ensure all piping engineering team members are working according to Worley safety guidelines, and that all have successfully completed project specific safety training.
• Other duties as assigned.

• BS in Mechanical or related field.
• Experience in piping engineering.
• Strong technical skills in specification of piping systems and manual valves.
• Demonstrated understanding of ASME B31 and other piping codes.
• Experience with ASME B16 and other applicable industry standards.
• Knowledge of the engineering development process and typical piping engineering deliverables such as piping isometrics, piping line classes, line designation tables, specialty items, and material selection diagrams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Competent in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams.
• Excellent organizational skills.

• Strong knowledge of spreadsheets, databases, and AutoCAD.
• Expert-level knowledge of manual valves.
• Experience with Hexagon Smart Plant software tools – P&, Materials, Reference Data.
• Experience with AVEVA software tools.
• Experienced in providing estimates, manpower planning and discipline schedules for large projects.
• Must hold an active Professional Engineer (PE) license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and be eligible for and willing to obtain licensure in the applicable state(s).
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