What is the Role and Responsibility of Lead Piping Engineer ?

The Lead Piping Engineer :-
The project lead piping engineer is a manager of technical personnel who has a good general background on the subject of piping. It is essential that this person be a good manager of personnel to get the best out of his or her team. This is a technical supervisory role, because this individual is responsible for the complete project piping group and must ensure that the delegated work is carried out by competent individuals in a timely manner.


The responsibilities of a lead piping engineer are to :-

• Assemble and supervise a piping group capable of executing the project.
• Create a project execution plan for the piping group.
• Create a project piping engineering organization chart.
• Delegate responsibility to the piping design, piping materials, engineering, piping stress, and the piping materials control groups.
• Estimate the work hours of piping engineering needed to complete the project, review this with engineering management, and maintain this schedule throughout the project.
• Develop and maintain the piping engineering work plan.
• Supervise the creation of the piping material specifications and piping standards.
• Define the document distribution matrix within the project.
• Attend kickoff meetings, project staff, client, construction, flow diagram review, and other meetings as required.
• Act as the focal contact point with the client and other discipline lead engineers on all piping issues.
• Be responsible for the implementation of the project procedure manual within the piping group.
• Maintain design deviations in the job scope and estimate additional hours spent on these activities.
• Maintain project budget control and planning regarding labor, trends, and change orders.
• Monitor, control, schedule, and report pipe shop fabrication and delivery (when applicable).
• Periodically report piping progress to project and discipline management.
• Issue all piping design deliverables, such as specifications, drawings, standards, and requisitions.
• Coordinate, resolve, or delegate on-site queries.
• Create a piping engineering project completion report.
• Assemble a lessons learned report for the project.