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Overview

The Package Design and Integration Specialist will develop detailed mechanical designs for rotating equipment packages, focusing on structural components and ensuring efficient assembly and maintenance. This role requires collaboration with internal and external teams to support project design and production activities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the detailed mechanical design of rotating equipment packages.
  • Design structural steel baseplates and release drawings and bills of materials.
  • Conduct calculations for static and dynamic loading at foundation interface.
  • Develop overall general arrangement drawings for rotating equipment trains.
  • Create detailed piping models and pipe spool fabrication drawings.
  • Conduct detailed design of coupling guards and prepare fabrication drawings.
  • Manage 3D models of rotating equipment trains to avoid equipment clashes.
  • Assemble overall utility consumption and customer connection lists.
  • Specify and design overall package lifting tools and prepare lifting arrangements.
  • Author purchase specifications for equipment such as baseplates and anti-vibration mounts.
  • Conduct design reviews on PK scope and attend project design reviews.
  • Lead 3D model reviews internally and externally.
  • Support the Project Lead Engineer with internal and external clients.
  • Support internal and external production activities and evaluate material deviation requests.
  • Provide support to bid management and front end engineering.

Requirements

  • 5 to 8 years of experience with a focus on detail design.
  • Associate level degree required.
  • Experience in Turbo Compressor Design.
  • Proficient in Teamcenter, COMOS, and JIRA.
  • Knowledge of industry standards API 614 and API 617.
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite.
  • Experience with SAP or other MRP system preferred.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This role is on-site located in Houston, TX.
  • 10% travel is required.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting sits about 20% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$37/hr middle band drawn from 99 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 72% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 371 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 205 different employers. 118 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,287 other active welding openings from 582 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (35), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (25), and Zachry Group (22). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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