Piping Design Technician Specialist

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Piping Design Technician Specialist to join an engineering company in Portland, OR. This is an 8-month contract to start with the potential for extensions.

Pay: $58.00 - $68.00/hr
; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Depending on project requirements, this role may function as a primary Piping Discipline Lead or as the senior design QA‑QC authority. In all cases, the individual is expected to exercise independent technical judgment and to own the quality of piping design outcomes.

As a PIPING DESIGN TECHNICIAN SPECIALIST, you must be capable of serving either as a Project / Discipline Lead or as a Senior Design QA‑QC Lead, depending on project needs. The position is accountable for piping design integrity from early layout through final model review, ensuring systems are not only code‑compliant but also constructible, operable, and maintainable.

Quality assurance in this role is design‑integrated and focused on preventing downstream issues through strong engineering judgment, proactive review, and technical leadership.

In either of these capacities you will need to have experience understanding and clarifying scope, working with cross-discipline teams, and ensuring their scope and team can meet the delivery schedule. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for delivering a solid engineering and design product that meets safety and constructability requirements, provide technical input on operability, model quality, and design standards while supporting workshare execution and providing estimating support and change‑management identification.

• Serve as a primary technical authority for piping design, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, material specifications, project design bases, and internal procedures.
• Be accountable for piping design quality within assigned areas, including layout development, routing, coordination with other disciplines, and overall system integrity.
• Communicate clear technical direction and expectations to designers, engineers, and workshare teams.
• Review vendor drawings, specialty piping data, and design deliverables for accuracy, fit, function, and constructability.

• Perform and guide 3D model‑based design reviews, verifying constructability, access, maintenance, welding feasibility, and long‑term operability – beyond clash detection.
• Evaluate piping layouts, supports, and interfaces for compatibility with stress requirements, installation sequencing, and maintenance needs.
• Identify design risks early, including conditions that may not present as formal clashes but could impact construction, safety, or operations.
• Provide clear, actionable redlines and feedback that improve overall design consistency and quality.

• Apply QA/QC judgment throughout design development, ensuring that technically acceptable layouts that present execution or operational risk are corrected.
• Support project‑specific design verification and quality activities in coordination with established QA processes.
• Participate in technical, interdisciplinary, and quality reviews, representing piping design intent and technical rationale.
• Ensure checking and QA activities remain aligned with scope, schedule, level of development, and project deliverables without becoming administrative bottlenecks.

• Work closely with project delivery teams, piping leads, engineering managers, and…