Senior Piping Engineer

GVA is a world leading marine and offshore design company for semi-submersibles and other floating units.Over the years GVA has executed more than 100 projects in more than 20 countries.The company has its origin in GVA shipyard where the GVA series of semi-submersibles originally was developed and fabricated.Today the GVA Series of semi-submersibles has been further developed and refined and include a wide range of units with displacements from 13,000 to 145,000 tonnes.Based on the experience of well over 100 engineers deployed within conceptual design, naval architecture, structural design, marine and drilling systems, GVA provide high-value design solutions to each and every project.GVA has a strong customer base including many of the largest Oil and Gas companies in the world. GVA.with global Headquarters located in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR.GVA?s reputation has been built upon the company?s ability to provide cost-efficient, state-of-the-art, safe and environmentally sound design solutions.GVA is presently holding a healty order book and the company is well positioned to capture further growth Position The Senior Piping Engineer will be apart of the Drilling & Utility Department and will be reporting to the Group Manager. The primary reponsibilities will include: -Development of piping and valve specifications for offshore applications, mainly marine service but in som cases also hydracarbon process.-Stress calculations.-Flow calculations.-Piping and equipment layout (normally PDMS).-Development of detail drawings.-System engineering (P&ID development).-Inspection, mechanical completion and commissioning at shipyards and other sites around the world. Profile The ideal candidate has qualifications and competencies which primarily include: -Completion of a M.Sc.degree in Naval Architecture Mechanical Engineer or similar.-Minimum 10 years experience of relevant piping engineering experience, preferably from marine systems or oil/cargo handling.-Design experiance from offshore and/or petrochemical applications.-Long and recent design experience with PDMS.-Long experience with piping stress calculations.-Good knoweledge about piping design standards.-Documented experience from development of piping and valve classes.-Experience from detail design and construction of piping systems.-Communicates fluently in both English and Swedish.-Initiate actions to progress work and takes appropriate action to meet challenging goals, schedules or business needs.-Takes personal responsibility for own career path by actively seeking development opportunities.-Question the effectiveness of current systems and processes and looks for ways to improve on them.-Mentors others in self development by sharing experiences of both prevoious successes and failures.