Pipe Stress Engineer

Project Overview

Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest.

In this role, you will use 2‑D/3‑D computer‑aided design (CAD) to develop piping designs/support layout and design for Plant Design & Piping (PD&P) engineering systems. You will help construct detailed scale models, develop work plans, and review drawings for quality, accuracy, and completion. Your collaboration across disciplines will help ensure PD&P design quality and compliance.

• Develops designs for complete and complex 3D model equipment layouts & pipe designs with minimum supervision from which detailed scale models and/or construction drawings are completed
• Ensures compliance with approved PD&P design standards in own work and by those assigned, to provide quality design
• Orients, reviews, and checks calculations, design models, drawings and design documents prepared by assigned designers/drafters for quality, accuracy, neatness, functionality and satisfactory completion
• Works with designers in other disciplines to coordinate overall design and technical requirements
• Answers questions from client or construction group on PD&P design scope
• Provides on‑the‑job training for personnel within PD&P design
• Able to navigate the 3D model in order to use as input to pipe stress model.
• Ensures PD&P systems designs comply with all applicable installation codes, regulations, and standards

• Requires bachelor's degree in engineering (or international equivalent) and 2‑5 years of relevant experience or 6‑9 years of relevant work experience

• Must possess the right to work and remain in the United States without Bechtel visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre‑employment drug screen, physical (if located at the construction site), and background check which includes verification of employment and education.
• Must be able to obtain a Department of Energy badge for access to the Hanford Site. (Even if teleworking, must still be able to comply with security requirements to obtain a badge)
• Non‑U.S. citizens from countries identified by the Department of Energy as posing heightened security concerns—including sensitive countries, state sponsors of terrorism, countries of risk, and other designated countries—are subject to additional security requirements that limit site access.
• Prior experience using pipe stress analysis programs including ME101 and/or Bentley AutoPIPE.
• Previous Bechtel project experience.

At Bechtel, you will enjoy a competitive total rewards package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, along with optional disability and supplemental insurance options, generous paid time off (160 hours annually, accrued 6.16 hours per pay period), nine paid holidays, paid parental leave, discretionary bonuses, and a well‑designed 401(k) plan with matching and profit‑sharing components.

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