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The Project Engineer is responsible for the engineering documentation for their assigned projects. They shall review customer specifications, provide input on the Piping and Instrument Diagram, develop material requirements, build bill of materials for valves and instruments and coordinate with vendors. Typical equipment includes modular process equipment (gas conditioning, pumping skids, etc.)
Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions:
Essential functions may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills and other characteristics. This list of tasks is illustrative only, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class perform all of the duties listed, nor does it necessarily list all possible duties that may be assigned.
- Read and review customer specificaitons
- Prepare and manage all engineering documenation for a project
- Final selection of all valves and instruments
- Verify and provide input on the P&ID
- Provide mechanical and process data to support piping and instrumentation design
- Interface with the Project Manager and shop personell
- Design and optimization of mechanical components for process equipment
- Interfaces with outside vendors for component selection, manufacturing, and assembly
- Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, and computer-generated reports
- Confer with system engineers and other personnel to implement operating procedures, resolve system malfunctions, and provide technical information
- Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications
- Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications
- Knowledge of MRP systems and capable of creating parts, BOMS, and operations for engineering
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Any other duties as assigned by management
Competencies, Skills, and Knowledge:
Required
- Thorough understanding of selection valves of all types, flow meters, pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters and other instrumentation on process and instrument diagrams
- Thorough understanding of the ASME/ANSI piping codes
- Work independently and with a team of peers to produce P&ID designs including specifying the P&ID components
- Demonstrate an understanding of gas and liquid hydrocarbon processes
- Familiar with process simulation software such as Unisim
- Understanding of and ability to perform ASME code calculations is a plus
- Support activities of design and drafting department and adjust to fabrication schedules as needed
- Ability to use AutoCad is a plus
- Excellent technical and analytical skills
- Detail-oriented
- Skill planning, reporting and communication (oral and written) skills
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What We Do
We operate primarily under the DistributionNOW and DNOW brands as a global distributor of the oil and gas and industrial markets.
Through our growing DigitalNOW® platform, customers can leverage world-class technology across eCommerce, data management and supply chain optimization applications to solve a wide array of complex operational and product sourcing challenges to assist in maximizing their return on assets.
Our energy product offering serves the energy industry – from upstream drilling and completion, exploration and production (“E&P”), midstream infrastructure development to downstream petroleum refining and petrochemicals – as well as in other industries, such as mining, chemical processing, liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) terminals, power generation utilities and renewables. The industrial distribution end markets include engineering and construction firms that perform capital and maintenance projects for their end-user clients.
Our global product offering includes maintenance, repair and operating (“MRO”) supplies, pipe, valves, fittings, flanges, gaskets, fasteners, electrical, instrumentation, artificial lift, pumping solutions, valve actuation and modular process, measurement and control equipment. We also offer procurement, warehouse and inventory management solutions as part of our supply chain and materials management offering. We have developed expertise in providing application systems, work processes, parts integration, optimization solutions and after-sales support.
Our solutions include outsourcing portions or entire functions of our customers’ procurement, warehouse and inventory management, logistics, point of issue technology, project management, business process and performance metrics reporting. We streamline our customers’ purchasing process, from requisition to procurement to payment, by digitally managing workflow, improving approval routing and providing robust reporting functionality.
