Job Description

Overview

Bowman has an opportunity for a Designer V, Mechanical Oil & Gas to join our team in Houston. The role involves producing mechanical design deliverables as part of a multi-disciplinary team, leading design efforts with minimal supervision, and engaging in project scoping, planning, and status reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Provides computer aided design (CAD) drafting and prepares drawings and schematics from specifications, layouts, vendor data, and sketches.
  • Coordinates with engineers or other designers to complete projects, ensuring adherence to specifications and standards.
  • Supports equipment sizing & selection, alternative analyses, and other deliverables.
  • Supports the engineering, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning of facilities.
  • Presents design deliverables to project members, cross-functional teams, senior leadership, external vendors, clients, and other stakeholders.
  • Plans, forecasts, and actualizes deliverable progress to support project reporting and schedule requirements.
  • Identifies scope changes and estimates impact to effort and schedule.
  • Supports proposal efforts by evaluating RFP scope, identifying deliverables, and estimating effort required.
  • Monitors progress and performance against the project plan.
  • Provides input to strategic decisions affecting the functional area of responsibility.
  • Works autonomously.
  • Prepares, reviews, and approves mechanical equipment and piping BOMs and designs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or associate degree or equivalent preferred.
  • Ten or more (10+) years of relevant experience.
  • Excellent facilitation, communication, and analytical skills – written and verbal.
  • High level of personal integrity.
  • Strong relationship capabilities.
  • Proficient in both written and spoken communication.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • Partially indoor and outdoor work environment with exposure to various conditions.
  • Mobility around an office environment and job/construction site.
  • Primarily local travel during business day, with some out-of-area and overnight travel required.
  • Occasional lifting or carrying up to 20 pounds.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

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 75 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 321 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 179 different employers. 81 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,132 other active welding openings from 498 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.

RPT Alliance LLC 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 Zachry Group (33), Austin Industries (30), and Welding Shop in Austin, TX (21). 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 $40/hr, Dallas at $39/hr, and Pasadena at $36/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. Designer V, Mechanical Oil & Gas figures were last recalculated when this page was built.