Principal Piping Designer

USM Business Systems

$92K — $146K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of related experience in piping design and construction
  • Expertise in AutoCAD Plant 3D and 2D/3D modeling
  • Strong understanding of regulatory compliance and quality management
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Creates complex 2D and 3D design models using advanced software
  • Reviews design documents for accuracy and safety compliance
  • Integrates geographic data into infrastructure design layouts
  • Identifies design risks and recommends corrective actions
  • Implements digital workflows to enhance drafting efficiency
  • Provides technical guidance to junior staff
  • Prepares visualizations and renderings for client presentations
  • Ensures sustainability is considered in design documentation

Benefits

  • Competitive pay & annual bonus program
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision packages
  • 401K match & company pension plan
  • Generous PTO for work/life balance
  • Access to wellness programs and classes
  • Tuition and education reimbursement
  • Career development resources through SoCalGas University
Full Job Description
Primary Purpose
Delivers advanced models and detailed documentation that ensure constructability, regulatory compliance, and project efficiency.

Leads the development and review of 3D models, piping layouts, and orthographic drawings, ensuring compliance with company standards and industry codes. Provides technical guidance, project leadership, and resolution of complex design issues. Requires expertise in AutoCAD Plant 3D, piping design, construction practices, and strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving abilities.

Duties and Responsibilities
  • Creates complex two-dimensional and three-dimensional models using advanced design and modeling software.
  • Reviews design documents for accuracy, constructability, and compliance with safety standards.
  • Integrates geographic data into design layouts for infrastructure projects.
  • Identifies design risks and recommends corrective actions to prevent delays.
  • Implements digital workflows to improve drafting efficiency and collaboration.
  • Provides technical guidance to junior drafters on software and drafting techniques.
  • Prepares detailed visualizations and renderings for client presentations.
  • Ensures sustainability considerations are incorporated into design documentation.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

$92000 -146000 / year

Education
  • Requires a 4 year degree in a relevant field, or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

Experience
  • Requires 5 years of related experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
  • Required: Design Engineering - The process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.
  • Required: Engineering Drawing/Blueprint Interpretation - Engineering drawings are a rich and specific outline that shows all the information and requirements needed to manufacture an item or product.
  • Required: Technical Drawing - Technical drawing, also known as an engineering drawing, is a detailed, precise diagram or plan that conveys information about how an object functions or is constructed.
  • Required: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) - The use of computers to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
  • Required: 2D/3D Modeling - Creating two-dimensional or three-dimensional drawings of objects, with 2D mainly for line drawings and 3D modeling for creating spaces and objects.
  • Required: Regulatory Compliance - Ensuring an organization's adherence to laws, regulations, guidelines and specifications relevant to its business processes.
  • Required: Prototyping - Building an early sample, model, or release of a product for the purpose of testing a concept or process.
  • Required: Quality Management - Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. It has four main components: quality planning, quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.
  • Required: Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders.
  • Required: Documentation & Records Management - Creating, distributing, using, maintaining and disposition of recorded information maintained as evidence of business activities and transactions.

Benefits

SoCalGas offers a comprehensive benefits program to help support employees both personally and professionally. These benefits include, but are not limited to:

  • Competitive pay & Annual Bonus program
  • Medical, dental, and vision packages (plus free Mental Health resources/sessions)
  • 401K company match & Company provided Pension Plan
  • Work/Life Balance including generous PTO
  • Wellness Programs/Classes
  • Tuition/Education Reimbursement
  • Career Development Tools & Resources through SoCalGas University


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