Job Description

Overview

EnerMech is a specialist service company that delivers integrated solutions for complex energy projects, supporting clients worldwide with expertise, equipment, and technology throughout the asset lifecycle. The ES/IIS Senior Engineer will lead complex engineering tasks, ensuring technical integrity and quality across various scopes.

Responsibilities

  • Develop discipline calculations, technical procedures, drawings, P&IDs and engineering content for work packs.
  • Independently check others' work and document review findings before authorized release.
  • Lead engineering for assigned ES and IIS scopes, including pipeline pre-commissioning and inspection services.
  • Act as the principal technical contact for assigned scopes, coordinating technical discussions with clients and project managers.
  • Specify equipment and engineering mobilization requirements and support pre-mobilization trials.
  • Provide technical leadership during site execution, confirming compliance with approved procedures.
  • Lead the engineering contribution to assigned tenders, consolidating methods and technical risks.
  • Apply quality, health, safety, and environmental requirements, leading technical risk reviews.
  • Coach graduates and engineers in calculations, procedure writing, and engineering judgment.
  • Maintain controlled technical records and contribute reusable procedures to the global framework.
  • Plan and coordinate engineering activities and report progress and delivery risks.
  • Develop and monitor engineering estimates and budgets, recommending improvements.
  • Prepare and review technical requisitions and resolve technical clarifications with vendors.
  • Recommend engineering resources and allocate assigned engineering tasks.
  • Coordinate interfaces with other engineering disciplines to ensure integrated solutions.
  • Provide verified technical progress records and scope-change information for project reporting.

Requirements

  • Minimum 7 years of relevant engineering experience with evidence of complex technical delivery.
  • Relevant engineering degree in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Chemical, or Ocean Engineering.

Additional Info

  • Travel required for office, workshop, and onshore/offshore project support.

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 $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $23–$41/hr across 93 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 344 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 195 different employers. 138 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 549 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.

EnerMech currently has 2 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 (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (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 Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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