Intermediate Pipeline Designer
What Vista Does
Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.
Why We Do It
We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.
Where We Work
The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. While we are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.
What You Would Do in This Role
The Intermediate Pipeline Designer assists in the preparation of design documents and drawings during the execution of a project specific to their discipline specialty (Piping, and Civil). Duties include:Pipeline Design & Layout
- Develop pipeline alignments and routing studies based on engineering, environmental, regulatory, and land-use constraints
- Prepare pipeline plan and profile drawings, alignment sheets, and route selection documentation
- Design gathering systems, transmission pipelines, flowlines, and associated facilities tie-ins
- Perform pipeline corridor assessments and optimize routing for constructability, safety, and cost effectiveness
- Coordinate pipeline crossings including roads, railways, watercourses, utilities, and third-party infrastructure
- Prepare and maintain:
- Alignment sheets
- General Arrangement
- Bend Schedule
- Plan and profile drawings
- Crossing drawings
- Typical installation details
- Construction work packages
- Material take-offs (MTOs)
- Design sketches and markups
- Develop and maintain 3D pipeline models using AutoCAD Plant 3D
- Ensure drawing quality, accuracy, and compliance with project standards
- Coordinate with Pipeline Engineers to incorporate process, stress, hydraulic, mechanical, and integrity requirements into designs
- Interface with survey, geotechnical, environmental, and regulatory teams
- Participate in design reviews and constructability reviews
- Support procurement and construction teams with technical design information
Quality & Compliance
- Apply industry standards and regulatory requirements including:
- CSA Z662
- ASME standards
- Client specifications
- Provincial and federal regulations
- Ensure compliance with company drafting and design procedures
- Participate in quality reviews and design checks
- Support management of change (MOC) processes and design revisions
Construction Support
- Provide design support during construction and commissioning activities
- Review field change requests and red-line markups
- Assist with as-built drawing updates
- Support resolution of construction-related design issues
Requirements
- 5–10 years of pipeline design experience
- Experience in oil and gas, midstream, utility, or industrial pipeline projects
- Diploma or Degree in Piping Design, Civil Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering Technology, or related discipline
- Experience supporting projects through FEEED, detailed engineering, construction, and commissioning phases
- Equivalent industry experience may be considered
- Proficiency with:
- AutoCAD
- Civil 3D
- Plant 3D
- CADWorx
- GIS applications
- Understanding of:
- Survey data and terrain modeling
- Pipeline design codes and standards
- Crossing design requirements
- Pipeline construction methods
- Material specifications and pipeline components
- Experience with document management systems and project workflows.
Why People Like Working with Us
Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the type of challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.
Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.
What We Offer
An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.
Vista offers all employees
- A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
- A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
- An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
- A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
- Company-sponsored social events and team sports
- Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
- An organization that values and encourages diversity
How to Apply
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