Mechanical Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

Job Scope: The Mechanical Engineer provides mechanical engineering services in support of EPC projects. This role focuses on turnaround-driven capital repairs, outage work, and reliability-based modifications, supporting execution from scope development through construction, startup, and return to service. The engineer works within established plant constraints, schedules, and safety requirements while delivering code-compliant, constructible designs aligned with client work processes in Longview, TX.

• Utilize department design and drafting standards.
• Understand project scope, specifications and design criteria for assigned projects.
• Provide on-site assistance during startup.
• Support engineering activities such as stress analysis, construction specifications, material procurement specifications, calculations and piping estimates.
• Develop conceptual layouts and cost studies as necessary to determine the simplest, most efficient approach to solving engineering tasks at hand.
• Produce estimate level preliminary designs and material take-offs suitable for the level of the estimate being performed on a project.
• Produce detail design calculations and sketches for materials of construction associated with the project.
• Assist the drafting group in resolving routine layout and detailing problems.
• Consult with design leaders from other disciplines.
• Review and check vendor drawings and other discipline drawings for mechanical input.
• Produce designs with efficient use of construction materials with an overall emphasis on ease of construction and completed product meeting the expectations of the client.
• Check calculations made by other engineers to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and conformance to good engineering practice.
• Advise the senior engineer concerning design or scope changes, which have been identified.
• Assist other engineers in developing and assembling scopes, drawings and specifications into a “package”, enabling mechanical purchase inquiries to be issued for procurement of equipment, materials or subcontract pricing.
• Develop construction specifications.
• Review fabrication drawings and other construction submittals for conformance to engineering drawings and specifications.
• Perform fieldwork necessary to gather field data, check tie‑ins and provide construction support.
• Provide technical guidance to less experienced drafting and engineering personnel in the department.
• Apply advanced engineering techniques and analysis to complex designs.
• Develop small work sharing packages for interoffice execution support.

Education: Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university is required.

Registration: Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.

Experience: Requires 3+ years of relevant industrial experience in mechanical engineering.

• Commitment to safety and safe work practices.
• Familiarity with small and large capital project work processes and deliverables.
• Project ownership and commitment to delivering project objectives on time.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to develop relationships and work with multiple engineering disciplines to accomplish project objectives.
• Commitment to supporting organizational success.
• Knowledge of design standards and codes.
• Knowledge, application and specification of piping materials.
• Development of piping material and material procurement specifications.
• Knowledge of good design practices for sizing all piping systems.
• Sizing of compressible fluid piping systems.
• Flexibility and stress analysis of moderately complex piping systems.
• Specify criteria for and select specialty piping items.
• Design of moderately complex process and utility piping systems.
• Knowledge of manual valve sizing, use and application.
• Knowledge of application of piping supports and restraints.
• Identification of need, application and specification of safety valves and devices to maintain the mechanical integrity of piping systems.
• Identification of need, application and specification…