Senior Piping Designer

**About The Role**:
PD&MS Group have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Designer to join our project teams on a contract basis.

Working as part of a design team, the Senior Designer will produce and check engineering design deliverables. The Senior Designer is responsible for ensuring that designs meet project requirements.

The Senior Designer will be expected to carry out the following duties:

- Represent PD&MS with Clients, Suppliers / Vendors and Certifying Authorities in a professional manner.
- Identification of design scope of work required to undertake a project/job. Estimation of deliverables time required to execute the scope of work.
- Early identification to the Lead Designer of areas of concern during the course of any project or study with necessary corrective action identified.
- Ensure operational and maintenance issues are addressed in the design. Seeking input from operations and maintenance personnel.
- Surveys, both onshore and offshore, to determine information to allow execution of workscopes.
- Checking of department design deliverables.
- Responsible for ensuring that all supervised personnel are aware of continuous improvement issues and new technology.
- Remain up to date and knowledgeable with technical developments, client, national and international standards and legislative requirements related to the position.
- During surveys/site visits communication with Operations and Maintenance personnel to ensure all requirements are fulfilled and determine any opportunities where PD&MS can provide engineering solutions to existing problems or for improving existing methods.
- Production of cost-effective design solutions that are fit for purpose, safe and add value to both PD&MS and the Client and motivation of discipline personnel to do similarly.
- Awareness and understanding of the business drivers within the PD&MS / Client relationship and how these can be influenced by innovative designs and minimum cost solutions.
- Performance of engineering tasks and activities, in accordance with PD&MS QA, HS & E Policies.
- Ensuring compliance with applicable Industry Codes and Standards, HSE Alerts, Statutory Instruments, Client Specifications and Legislative Requirements and establishing order of precedence on a project-by-project basis.
- Demonstration of safe approach in design and working practises.
- Encouragement of attention to safety.

**About You**:

- HNC in relevant engineering discipline
- Previous demonstrable experience in detailed design
- Experience in design checking preferred
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant oil and gas industry codes and standards
- Understanding of all engineering disciplines
- Highly competent in the use of Autodesk design products
- Survival BOSIET/FOET with CA-EBS
- MIST
- Exposure to People Management

**About Us**:
PD&MS delivers small, medium and large sized brownfield engineering and construction projects to both onshore and offshore facilities within the UKCS, and beyond. We have an excellent track record for safely and successfully delivering a vast range of work; from simple repair order type scopes, fast-track production flowline delivery, to full management of integrated multi-discipline EPCC projects. We deliver across all phases of the project, from initial concept to installation, commissioning and close out.
PD&MS deliver Front End Concept & Feasibility Study Planning as well as detailed design, engineering, procurement and construction within the following specialist areas:

- Topsides Production Facilities
- Platform Drilling Facilities (Including Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (Modus)
- Onshore Facilities
- Decommissioning

These services are delivered through our core values, PD&MS Genes which represents what we do on a daily basis, the way we deliver and what our company stands for. Each Gene is underpinned by our safety message “without compromise to safety or quality”, safety and quality do not stand alone as company values because they are integrated into everything we do.