Lead Piping Engineer/Specialist

Job description

About you:
Join us.

Unleash your energy within.


If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you.

We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.
We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it.

We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts.

So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.
We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop.

From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.
We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.
Our purpose and beliefs:
As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.
It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen.

Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture.

These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:
We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING
Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us :
Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success.

We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives.

Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.
Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries.

Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

Job Description

About you:

Join us.

Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you.

We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it.

We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts.

So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop.

From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:

As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen.

Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture.

These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG

We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY

We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE

We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success.

We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives.

Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries.

Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the job:

Kent is looking for a Piping Principal Engineer, to support ongoing workshare projects.

Skills and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Design Preparation: Prepare and review designs (documents and plans) and incorporate comments, according to specific requests from the Engineering and Projects area, using the software and office package and standards, to comply with the requirements of each discipline.
  
  
• Planning and Execution: Plan and supervise the execution of each project, defining the scope, applicable standards and assigning priorities to the work group to comply with the Detailed Work Plan (PDT) and the project's man hours.
  
  
• Preparation of Bids: Be able to define, as necessary, the estimation of resources, through knowledge and experience of projects, to obtain a proposal that meets the client's requirements.
  
  
• Technical Quality Management in deliverables: Use the tools and methods established by the company, for the quality control of the deliverables, according to the specialty to which it is assigned, using the standards and control schemes that have been defined, in order to guarantee that in all projects the Quality and Compliance parameters defined in the Quality Plan of each project and in the Promise of Value.
  
  
• Registration and control of Man Hours: Record the consumption of Man Hours of each deliverable/activity in the Man Hours Registration and Control System established by the company, to monitor the profitability of the project.
  
  
• Support in Technical Queries from Clients: Respond to technical queries made by the client, interacting in formal and periodic meetings, to adequately resolve concerns and identify possible changes in scope or rework that require the immediate application of change control actions.
  
  
• In addition to the responsibilities listed herein, the employee may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks as needed or directed by the supervisor or management.
  
  These tasks will be within the reasonable scope of the employee's skills, capabilities, and role within the organization.
  
  The intent of this provision is to allow for flexibility and adaptability in meeting the dynamic needs of the organization, ensuring that operational requirements can be met efficiently.
  
  All such tasks will be assigned considering the employee's current workload and with respect to their professional development.
  
  

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

Knowledge/ Qualification/ Training/ Certification:

• Professional in Mechanical or Mechatronics, Engineering.
  
  
• Desirable Specialization according to the specialty.
  
  
• Intermediate/Advanced English is desirable.
  
  
• Static and dynamic module management of CAESAR II.
  
  
• Static-dynamic stress and flexibility analysis of piping systems for transportation, treatment, refining of crude oil, its derivatives and accompanying fluids under standards and codes (ASME, API, WRC).
  
  
• Modal analysis and water hammer in CAESAR II with interpretation of results.
  
  
• Interpretation of ASME code B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8 (Section - Stress and/or flexibility calculation).
  
  
• Critical line selection criteria in stress analysis.
  
  
• Workshare projects experience at least 8 years.
  
  
• Verification of loads on static and rotating equipment according to API, NEMA, WRC standards.
  
  
• Definition and reporting of pipe loads in civil structures.
  
  
• Modelling and analysis of flow lines as per ASME B31.4
• Selection/design/specification of auxiliary pipe supports expansion joints and springs elaboration of data sheets for expansion joints and springs.
  
  
• Minimum 1 year experience as a field flexibility analyst desirable.
  
  

Communication:

• Excellent command of the Spanish and English language in both oral and written communication and skills.
  
  

Behavior/ Core Competencies:

• Specific experience from 10.1 to 20 years.
  
  
• Experience and participation in the different phases of design, assembly, commissioning, consulting and/or auditing of projects for the Oil and Gas sector.
  
  
• Experience according to your specialty.
  
  

HSSEQ:

The Employee shall observe the Health, Safety, Sustainability, Environment and Quality rules of the Company; it’s clients and the governing authorities of the host country.

Details about the role:

Location: Colombia

Relocation required: No

Contract type: Undefined

Experience level: Specific experience from 10.1 to 20 years

Job Info

• Job Identification 2444
• Posting Date 06/11/2025, 03:24 PM
• Job Schedule Full time

Required Skill Profession

Arquitectura, Planificación Y Construcción