Design & Documentation Supverisor

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The Design & Documentation Supervisor is responsible for leading and actively participating in the development, review, checking, and management of engineering design deliverables for capital and sustaining projects. This is a working supervisory position which is accountable for engineering design packages, design checking, coordinating internal and external design resources, engineering drawing standards, document governance, and document control practices to ensure accurate, complete, and timely project documentation.

The role integrates discipline design support, CAD services, document administration, and transactional document control from project initiation through final archival. The role serves as the primary technical resource for drafting standards, design documentation quality, engineering drawing control, redline/as-built management, and project records turnover from scope development through construction and project closeout.

• Develop engineering design packages and drawing deliverables for capital projects, plant modifications, and sustaining engineering work.
• Prepare, revise, and coordinate PFDs, P&IDs, general arrangement drawings, equipment layouts, piping plans, isometrics, plot plans, tie-in drawings, line lists, and related engineering documentation.
• Perform field verification, site walkdowns, and dimensional checks to support accurate design development and constructible work packages.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Reliability, EHS, Procurement, Construction, and project teams to develop practical and executable design solutions.
• Support Management of Change and Process Change Authorization workflows through the preparation, review, and update of engineering documentation.
• Assist project managers with design resource loading, work sequencing, design deliverable forecasting, and schedule status reporting.

• Serve as lead design checker for engineering and drafting deliverables generated internally and by external engineering contractors.
• Check drawings and design packages for technical accuracy, completeness, drawing quality, compliance with company standards, constructability, maintainability, and operability.
• Verify consistency between related deliverables such as P&IDs, line lists, equipment lists, instrument indexes, specifications, construction packages, and vendor documentation.
• Ensure review comments are properly resolved, incorporated, and closed before drawings or packages are issued for approval, construction, or record.
• Establish and maintain design checking processes, package review workflows, and quality expectations for internal and contractor-generated deliverables.
• Identify recurring design and documentation quality issues and lead corrective actions or process improvements.

• Maintain company drafting standards, CAD procedures, drawing templates, drawing numbering conventions, and design documentation requirements.
• Develop, update, and communicate design drafting procedures to internal users, project teams, and outside engineering contractors.
• Maintain corporate piping specifications and applicable design content within isometric generation or CAD-related software, as applicable.
• Ensure consistency of engineering deliverables across projects,…