About the job
Kent is looking for a Piping Principal Engineer to support ongoing, complex industrial projects. The role requires leading and supporting technical activities for piping stress analysis, material specification, and mechanical integrity to ensure safe, cost‑effective, and code‑compliant engineering deliverables. The position combines senior technical expertise with team leadership and client interface.
Responsibilities
- Design Preparation: Prepare and review designs (documents and plans) and incorporate comments, according to specific requests from the Engineering and Projects area, using the software and office package and standards.
- Planning and Execution: Plan and supervise the execution of each project, defining the scope, applicable standards and assigning priorities to the work group to comply with the Detailed Work Plan (PDT) and the project's man hours.
- Preparation of Bids: Define, as necessary, the estimation of resources, through knowledge and experience of projects, to obtain a proposal that meets the client's requirements.
- Technical Quality Management in deliverables: Use the tools and methods established by the company to control quality of deliverables, according to the specialty, using the defined standards and control schemes, ensuring that the Quality and Compliance parameters defined in the Quality Plan of each project and in the Promise of Value are met.
- Performance Monitoring: Track and record man‑hour consumption per deliverable/activity within the corporate management system to ensure project profitability and on‑time delivery.
- Support in Technical Queries from Clients: Respond to technical queries made by the client, interacting in formal and periodic meetings, to resolve concerns and identify possible changes in scope or rework that require immediate change control actions.
- Other tasks: May be required to perform other ad‑hoc tasks as directed by the supervisor or management, within the reasonable scope of the empl
📌 Lead Engineer/Specialist (Bogotá)
🏢 Kent
📍 Bogotá