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Senior Mechanical Engineer

Covington, LA

Contract to Hire

$75-$80/hr

JOB DESCRIPTION

A large and growing client in Covington, LA is looking to hire a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join their team. This team is growing exponentially, and the current team size of this discipline is 18. Preferably, your background will be in the Oil and Gas Industry, CO2 Capture and Transportation Industry, or Chemical Industry. You will perform work on projects as assigned by the engineering manager or project manager and will interface with all engineering disciplines across the organization to successfully complete project work. You will be involved with the design of multiple element systems for full facility designs (e.g. carbon capture facilities, compressor stations, pump stations, tank terminals, production facilities, refineries, and chemical plants) with the interface between project managers, design/drafting, and multi-disciplines. Midstream experience, or any refinery or chemical plant background experience would be very transferable. You will also be responsible for providing guidance and feedback to the mechanical design and drafting team and filling the lead engineer role on various projects.

Additional responsibilities include:

- Lead engineering projects involving natural gas compression, carbon capture, crude and product terminals, pipelines, refineries, and chemical plants

- Develop detailed designs, reports, etc.

- Prepare design packages for discipline specific work

- Perform technical bid evaluation on equipment and construction bids

- Coordinate efforts of engineers, drafting and other personnel on multidisciplinary projects

- Participate and interface with client

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

- Bachelor's Degree

- 8+ years of relevant experience

- PE License

- Experienced in ASME codes (e.g., ASME B31.3, ASME B31.4, ASME B31.8, ASME Section VIII) and API codes (e.g., API 610, API 650, API 1104)

- Ability to perform detailed design calculations (hydraulic calculations, valve sizing, and wall thickness calculations)

- Experience developing discipline specific design drawing content (e.g., facility layouts, piping and mechanical drawings, P&IDs

- Detail oriented, ability to pay attention to the minute details of the project/task at hand

- Customer oriented and excellent communication skills