Job Description

Overview

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc. is seeking a Senior Piping Designer for their Oil, Gas, and Chemical division. The role involves collaborating with engineering and construction teams to deliver innovative designs that meet client expectations while ensuring safety and cost-effectiveness.

Responsibilities

  • Provides potential solutions to complex issues.
  • Reviews the work of designers developing documents as needed for the project.
  • Acts as a field resource to assist construction in field resolution on issues.
  • Possesses advanced AutoCAD skills and is able to design and draft advanced drawings.
  • Proficient in 3D modeling with some supervision.
  • Acts independently to utilize industry and company standards to design effectively.
  • Reviews application of standards and can make suggestions on improvements needed.
  • Serves as a resource to department, projects and construction.
  • Identifies changes in scope of work during small to mid-sized projects and produces drawing changes as needed.
  • Balances individual performance requirements with the demands for team participation.
  • Performs assigned work efficiently and effectively to maximize person productivity.
  • Reviews vendor documentation and comments as it applies to client and project needs.
  • Completes as-builts by utilizing RFIs, ECNs and red-marked drawings from construction.

Requirements

  • Associate degree or High School diploma + 2 years’ experience as a minimum.
  • Must have SmartPlant 3D/SP3D experience.
  • 4-10 years' minimum relevant experience.
  • Receives little to no instruction on routine work and detailed instruction on new assignments.
  • Can provide guidance to less experienced engineers.
  • Adjusts to varying demands of work and performs well.
  • Develops and presents work in well-constructed written and verbal presentations.
  • Works collaboratively across departments and involves others in solving problems.
  • Supports project teams and departments in a positive and productive manner.
  • Serves as point of contact for external or internal customers.
  • Follows through on commitments made to internal and external customers.
  • Able to manage multiple responsibilities with set expectations and meet deadlines.
  • Able to specify actions to take when standards or contract requirements are not met.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This position is based out of the Energy Corridor Office in Houston, TX.
  • Opportunities for flexible work are available.
  • Regular, reliable attendance is required.
  • May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, welding jobs in Houston, TX currently run a median of $30/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $22–$37/hr across 100 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

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 583 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.

Kiewit currently has 4 other openings live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Abernathy at $45/hr, Arlington at $40/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Houston, TX

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Sr. Piping Designer - Oil, Gas, & Chemical (OGC) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.