Lead Piping Designer

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow

**Lead Process Piping Designer**:
This role will see you become a leader, thereby enhancing your capabilities and the reputation of WSP’s Mining Infrastructure team. You will collaborate with talented and diverse professionals working on iconic projects to drive future-ready outcomes that will benefit clients and communities.

Our Mining team helps clients optimise performance, boost profitability, and operate responsibly. We have a comprehensive understanding of the mining industry and current issues including decarbonisation and understand future ready strategies are critical to countering these issues, capitalising on opportunities, and adding value to businesses.

**What you’ll do**:
We are currently looking to hire a Lead Process Piping Designer to join the wider Mining Infrastructure team in the Newcastle office where you will be responsible for delivering a wide range of projects from concept through to commissioning. The projects are predominantly in the minerals processing and power station industry but with the opportunity to work in water, hydrogen, and renewables.
- Working within a multi-disciplined engineering team to deliver a range of process engineering design projects, pipelines, pump stations, and process piping as well as assistance with mechanical and structural design including concrete and steel structures, bridges, and other mine infrastructure
- Be responsible for layout of process plants and process equipment with the ability to take flow sheets and P&IDs and turn them into plant layouts
- Design and model piping systems including pipe supports using 3D modelling software.
- Generate piping design and detail drawings including general arrangements, piping orthographics, isometrics, and pipe support detail drawings.
- Daily use of AutoCAD and a range of 2D and 3D piping and structural packages
- Supporting the wider resources team and other teams within the company nationally when the opportunity presents

**About you**:

- Diploma / Advanced Diploma in Engineering (or equivalent)
- Be able to layout process plants and process equipment with the ability to take flow sheets and P&IDs and turn them into plant layouts
- Be able to design and model piping systems including pipe supports using 3D modelling software.
- Be able to Generate piping design and detail drawings including general arrangements, piping orthographics, isometrics, and pipe support detail drawings.
- Practical experience with AutoCAD (essential), AutoCAD Plant 3D (essential) and Autodesk Advance Steel (preferred)
- Experience with Navisworks, Inventor, and Revit not essential but highly regarded
- Experience in coal processing highly regarded
- Experience in other industrial process piping fields not essential but highly regarded
- Experience executing BIM and 3D modelling project delivery methods
- Experience with pipework detailing and isometrics
- Experience with Autodesk Plant 3D admin, spec creation and isometric xml modification not essential but highly regarded
- Familiarity with CAD modelling of steel and concrete structures
- Familiarity with working with point cloud surveys would be highly regarded
- Able to work remotely on client’s sites liaising directly with the client to deliver the most appropriate engineering solution

**About WSP**:
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,500 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LQBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.