Mariana Minerals
Sr. Piping Designer
Houston, TX · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- New graduates are welcome; no specific years of experience required.
- Education
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field, or equivalent hands-on design experience.
About the job
Design piping systems and deliver plant models and documents while developing software-driven workflows to automate and improve piping design.
What you'll do
- Create 3D plant models, layouts, routed lines, supports, and construction isometrics; prepare PFDs and smart P&IDs.
- Carry designs from P&ID through IFC, including compliance, clash checks, access, and production of bills of material and take-offs.
- Identify repetitive design tasks and build scripts, data connections, and automated checks or workflows.
What they ask for
- Fluency creating real models and assemblies in a serious CAD environment.
- Evidence of trying to script a repetitive engineering task.
- Willingness to use modern AI coding tools and deliver a useful tool in the first month; programming experience is not required.
- Clear writing skills.
Tools
AutoCAD Plant 3D, SolidWorks, Inventor, NX, CATIA, Creo, CADWorx, E3D
AI focus
Use modern AI coding tools to build useful engineering tools and automate piping-design workflows, including checks, routing, support placement, drawing review, and model QC.
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