# Principal Piping Engineer

Job Overview: The Principal Piping Engineer is responsible for interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending best practices. They will be tasked with solving complex Piping-related problems and will work independently with minimal guidance. The Principal Piping Engineer may be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of Piping. As such, they must have in-depth expertise in Piping as well as broad knowledge of the Piping discipline within the Engineering function. Key Tasks and Responsibilities: Perform conceptual, FEED, or detailed design analysis and develop them as per project Scope of Work design basis, project documentation, design codes and standards, and McDermott procedures within the planned schedule and budget Apply in-depth skills and broad knowledge of the business to address complex problems and non-standard situations and report them to the Project Management Team and Department Manager at an early stage Prepare detailed design calculations and analyses including design reports and procedures Manage own time to meet objectives and forecast and plan resource requirements Lead others to solve

- **Id**: 3886131
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mcdermott-principal-piping-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T14:37:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:16:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5403
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Oil & Gas, Engineering Services, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 1877428
- **Name**: McDermott
- **Domain**: mcdermott.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mcdermott-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 132
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.348
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Modularization** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T19:41:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:12, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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