Piping Superintendent
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Saipem scores A on the Alion truth index.
Company Description:
Join Saipem and engineer a sustainable future.
We are a global leader in engineering and construction for the energy and infrastructure sectors, delivering complex onshore and offshore projects worldwide. Driven by technological innovation as “One Company”, our 30,000 people from over 130 nationalities in more than 50 countries work every day to enable the energy transition toward Net Zero. At Saipem, your expertise helps shape the future globally for environmental sustainability.
Project: NFPS EPC5
Job Title: Piping Superintendent
Location: Tianjin, China
Job Description:
Mission
- Organise, coordinate and control the erection works, both performed by subcontractors or in direct hiring, ensuring the management of interfaces with production superintendents, engineering, methods disciplines and quality control.
- Manage the activities to integrate sub-assemblies and complete the end product, including Mechanical Completion, preparation for load out, sea transport/offshore hook up load in and installation on foundations, as applicable for Onshore or Offshore projects.
Tasks
- Promote safe works practices and environmental protection, ensuring that safety standards are respected
- Ensure the fulfilment of the project quality and contractual requirements
- Set-up time schedule adhering to the time frame allocated to the specific scope of work
- Coordinate, and organise when in direct hiring, erection works to ensure correct and cost-effective performance, in accordance with the established operating programs, coordinating and controlling the activities performed by the dependent
teams
- Coordinate support activities (scaffolding, lifting and handling)
- Ensure that welding activities and non-destructive controls are carried out and released before painting, with a view to cost optimization
- Coordinate all disciplines involved in the work up to Mechanical Completion optimizing overlapping operations
- Release mechanically completed system to Commissioning unit in the scheduled sequence
- Ensure that load out operations are carried out
- Give all information regarding the progress of the work indicating the cause of deviations between the program and the work carried out and propose solutions and/or request instructions to overcome these problems. Control production
parameters in terms of efficiency and productivity
- Ensure proper discipline workflow, interfacing with the project (home office and/or site/yard) organization and client
- Support the resolution of technical problems encountered during the execution of the works
- Ensure the correct quantities accounts of the works, including updating man-hours and preliminary cost estimates for scope of work changes
- Ensure the achievement of yields and durations agreed during Project set-up
- Assure that execution data (including manhours, equipment an d material utilization) are recorded and maintained, during the entire Project life, according to Project requirements through the Project Approved tools
- Ensure the supervision and monitoring of the works performed, subcontracted or in direct hiring. Coordinate human and technical resources, indicating any needs or surplus. Plan and monitor vendors or any specialists activities at site
- Manage the technical and administrative documentation
- Interface with Asset department for equipment maintenance and repairing to ensure that equipment is kept in good working order
- Contribute to continuous improvement process through the provision of suggestions regarding methodologies, tools, material management
What are we looking for?
Education: Master's Degree/Bachelor’s degree.
Experience: At least 3 years of professional hands-on experience as a Piping Superintendent within oil and gas industry.
Languages: English Language skills required
Technical Skills: Living Quarter Fabrication activities
What can we offer to you:
Corporate Benefits: We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance.
Our One Saipem Way soft skills model leverages on skills development, career growth, opportunities to innovate through complex challenges by promoting communication and collaboration to achieve common goals.
Additional Information
We embrace diversity! At Saipem, we believe that innovation thrives through diversity. Our culture is built on mutual respect, collaboration, inclusion and the belief that our differences drive our progress.
Safety and Sustainability matter to us! Operating in difficult and at times extreme situations, the focus is always on the health and safety of people and the preservation of the natural ecosystem.
Find out more in our website: https://www.saipem.com/en/gpsag
One vision, many paths, limitless possibilities.
Global Projects Services AG