Senior Piping Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Oversee the engineering design activities for various piping systems, including process piping, high-temperature piping, utility piping, specialty systems, and facility piping interfaces.

• Create, evaluate, and authorize piping specifications, classes, line lists, tie-in requirements, routing designs, support strategies, anchoring methods, and technical calculations.

• Assess the behavior of high-temperature piping, including expansion, flexibility, anchoring, guides, supports, equipment loads, routing limitations, and maintenance requirements.

• Review piping layouts, isometric drawings, support details, inputs for stress analysis, material selections, valve specifications, penetration details, and vendor documentation.

• Collaborate with process, mechanical, instrumentation & control, HVAC, electrical, civil/structural, safety, radiological controls, quality, construction, and operations teams on piping design.

• Assist in design reviews, constructability assessments, hazard evaluations, field inspections, procurement processes, construction issue resolution, testing, startup, and commissioning activities.

• Offer technical guidance to piping designers and engineers while ensuring configuration control, quality standards, and adherence to timelines.

• Prepare engineering dispositions, technical assessments, design modification packages, and clear recommendations for project leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, or a closely related engineering field.

• Over 10 years of experience in piping engineering within nuclear, DOE, chemical, high-temperature, high-hazard, process, or highly regulated industrial environments.

• Extensive experience in high-temperature piping, piping specifications, routing, anchoring, supports, piping materials, and coordination of piping design.

• Familiarity with piping codes, pressure boundary specifications, stress factors, thermal expansion, equipment interfaces, constructability, and configuration management.

• Proficiency in reviewing P&IDs, piping layouts, isometric drawings, support details, specifications, vendor submissions, and site conditions.

• Strong skills in technical leadership, communication, review processes, issue resolution, and cross-discipline collaboration.

• Capability to secure and maintain necessary site access, training, and security clearances.

• Due to government contract requirements, US citizenship is mandatory.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with hot cells, gloveboxes, GTS, nuclear fuel facilities, uranium processing, chemical processing, or radiological facility piping.

• Experience with ASME B31.3, ASME Section III interfaces, nuclear quality standards, pipe stress analysis, or seismic design considerations.

• Professional Engineer license or advanced experience in piping/stress analysis.

• Active DOE L or Q security clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k)

• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

• Paid Time Off (Vacation & Public Holidays)

• Short Term & Long Term Disability