Job Description

Overview

Join SLB New Energy & Industrial and help power a more balanced energy future. The role of Mechanical Equipment / Piping Engineer involves supporting the Engineering Lead and Product Engineering Manager in ensuring the mechanical and piping systems in large scale data centers meet customer requirements and industrial standards.

Responsibilities

  • Check and approve drawings, information, and documentation to enable the manufacturing group to produce Data Center Infrastructure Modules.
  • Review and monitor engineering work to assure accuracy and conformance with specifications and codes.
  • Attend and initiate design and development planning and review sessions.
  • Prepare technical requisitions for mechanical systems and components.
  • Review vendor quotations and provide feedback to the procurement team.
  • Prepare mechanical engineering deliverables such as valve lists, equipment lists, and piping stress studies.
  • Prepare bulk material take offs and detailed bills of materials.
  • Think creatively to find innovative solutions to reduce costs while managing quality and schedule.
  • Stay informed of new developments affecting the organization and recommend changes.
  • Interpret and execute assignments independently.
  • Make independent decisions on technical problems and represent the organization in meetings.
  • Apply advanced knowledge to resolve crucial issues and unique conditions.
  • Stay up to date with advancements in electrical engineering and data center technologies.
  • Select and specify proper painting and coating systems for data center items.
  • Select and design piping insulation as needed.
  • Determine brackets, fastening, bolting, and mounting of components and major equipment.
  • Advise project and discipline engineers on industry codes and specifications.
  • Supervise outsourcing of piping engineering work if necessary.
  • Create or check design basis documents specific to projects.
  • Perform or check pipe stress analysis in accordance with design basis.
  • Provide piping load information to structural engineers.
  • Review as-built drawings and check calculations for conformity.
  • Represent the company with customers during review meetings.
  • Provide technical support during the construction phase.
  • Attend job site visits, project meetings, and commissioning activities as needed.

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 83 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 323 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 189 different employers. 75 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,149 other active welding openings from 516 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.

SLB currently has 3 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 (34), Zachry Group (28), and Worley (19). 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 Arlington at $39/hr, Dallas at $36/hr, and Pasadena at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. DCN Piping Engineer figures were last recalculated when this page was built.