Lead Piping Designer and Engineer

**** ******* ***** **. *******, Texas ***** C 832-***-**** **.****@*****.***

LEAD DESIGNER-PIPING

SUMMARY

Committed Mechanical Engineer with extensive comprehensive experience across all aspects of piping and mechanical design activities, deliverables, 3D model, and field work assignments; great ability to plan, schedule, and control piping design activities. Self-motivation and a strong work ethic combined with a collaborative spirit to guarantee the goals in any small or complex onshore/offshore projects.

Intuitive problem-solving skills, strong leadership capability, and dedication to fulfilling both immediate and long term milestones. Emphasis on knowledge sharing and commitment to understand the project scope, responsibility to achieve the goals, and eliminating reworks. Competitive drive that improves the team performance and the productivity, contributing to the organizational development.

CORE COMPETENCES

Experience in developing plot plant, equipment layout, piping arrangement, and support location in Refineries, Petrochemical, Chemical, Power, Manufacturing, and FPSO project.

Experience in quality checking of piping deliverables.

Ability to estimate manpower, plan, schedule, and control piping activities.

Ability to lead less experienced designers, motivating team members to get the goals

Field work: walk-downs with P&IDs, tie-ins location, new lines routes, and survey for as-built drawings.

Competent handling plant design tools: AutoCad, Microstation, Aveva E3D, CadWorx, and Naviswork.

Experience in 3D model review sessions.

Knowledge of applicable codes, specifications, and standards for design.

Mentoring, creating opportunities.

Decision Making/problem solving skills.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

ZACHRY, Inc (Houston, Texas) Jan-2024 to Nov-2025

Senior Piping Designer

Designed and developed detailed equipment layout, and piping arrangement, ensuring compliance with codes, standards, specifications, and good piping practices.

Developed detailed 3D model of 45 equipment and 420 lines in a chemical plant, including access/escape routes, and operation/maintenance volumes in compliance with safety standards, and constructability.

Monitoring and controlling project progress, reporting any scope change.

Took responsibility of the P&IDs redlines, having a weekly meeting with process team to review and approve the new redlines.

Perform site visits to gather field information, and developed field sketches.

Maintained the 3D model integrity and clash free, extracting reports to validate the data.

Conducted review meetings with other disciplines and client to ensure that the installations were functional and safe, preparing a punch list of the arose issues to fix them by discipline.

Led a junior designer providing clear communication, guidance, support, and insight to include details in the isometrics to avoid error in the installation.

Reviewed supplier drawings, adding mark-ups according the process and design requirements.

Quality checking of drawings and isometrics for construction.

Assisted/supported construction group, addressing any field design issue.

3642 Burning Palms Ct. Houston, Texas 77042 C 832-***-**** **.****@*****.***

INGENERO, Inc (Houston, Texas) Sep-2019 to Nov-2023

Independent Contractor (Lead Designer)

Led a small group of designers to develop equipment location, new lines routes and support location in revamp and extension projects, in Lyondellbasell plants, based on P&ID, codes, specifications, standards.

Developed project plan, schedule, and control of piping activities managing timelines and resources to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Performed tie-in location, field measurements, created sketches, and took pictures of piping system to collect data and prepared documents for demolition.

Monitored the update of 3D model with the information collected on site and run clashes and extract report to assure the quality of the model.

Quality checking of equipment layout, piping arrangement, and isometrics for demolition and new construction of the piping system according the project scope.

Participated in 90% final review meeting with production and operation to ensure compliance with standards, client’s requirements, and accuracy.

Prepared the piping isometrics and drawings for fabrication and construction.

Crystal Graphic Ingeneria S.A. de C.V. (Mexico, D.F.) Jul-2017 to Jun-2019

Independent Contractor (Lead Designer)

Piping Leader position in a company with a small group of piping designers, developing equipment layout, piping arrangement, in racks, process units, and utilities systems based on P&ID, codes, specifications, and standards in platforms projects and revamp project in refineries for PEMEX.

Led piping designers’ group, knowing their skills and experience in projects to delegate effectively and clearly communicate objectives and outcomes of the project.

Monitored in the 3D model the equipment location, pipes routing, supports, resolving any conflict with installation by other discipline, extracting report to validate the data.

Checked equipment layouts, piping arrangement, isometrics, and supplier’s drawings.

Achieved the completeness of the activities ahead of schedule and the satisfaction of the client.

KBR, Inc. Houston (Houston, Texas) Oct-2007 to Mar-2017

Principal Piping Designer:

led a team of piping designers to develop equipment layout, piping arrangements in complex projects as Refineries and Chemical plants, reaching the goals ahead of schedule and client satisfaction, increasing the productivity by 10%.

Monitoring and controlling project progress, reporting any scope change.

Checked in 3D model piping routing, equipment location, accessibility, operability, construction and erection requirements, and compliance with specification, industry standards, and safety.

Final Checking of plot plans, equipment layouts, piping arrangement, and isometrics.

Lead the work of other office, ensuring the good engineering practice in the execution of the piping design activities and continuous improvement of the team performance.

Conducted model review sessions with client and other disciplines to identify, evaluate, and solve technical problems, clashes, and client comments.

3642 Burning Palms Ct. Houston, Texas 77042 C 832-***-**** **.****@*****.***

KBR Monterrey S.A. de C.V. (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mex.) Nov-2003 to Oct-2007

Principal Technical professional:

Led the piping design activities of 25 piping designers to work 3400 lines in detail design stage, improving the team performance and increasing the productivity of isometrics by 10%.

Developed project plan, schedule, and control of piping activities managing timelines and resources to ensure the successful completion of projects.

Interfaced with England office to discuss technical issues, missing information, clashes, and the progress of the project in a weekly videoconference.

Checked for final approval piping drawings and isometrics, ensuring conformity with codes, specifications, discipline standards, and client requirements.

Instituted open communication, effective leadership, 3D model training program, and lesson learned, helping the piping designers to achieve remarkable performance.

Prepared fabrication isometrics, monitored the spool fabrication and inspected the installation on site, and take decisions to solve problems.

EDUCATION

B.S. Mechanical Engineer, Instituto Politécnico Nacional .

Quality Control course, Instituto Politécnico Nacional.

Certification of Professional Piping Designer level IV, SPED.

Cadworx course.

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