Materials Engineer jobs in Texas

Saipem is an advanced technological and engineering platform for the design, construction and operation of complex, safe and sustainable infrastructures, and plants.

We are committed to working alongside our customers, transforming their strategies and projects into competitive and sustainable infrastructures, plants, and processes, accompanying them on the path to energy transition. We want to be the key ingredient in companies' energy transition, their bridge to a sustainable future.

We value our projects thanks to the ingenuity of everyone and the different cultures of each; we ground them responsibly, having the safety of people and the environment at heart; we carry them out with the utmost commitment to build trusting relationships with customers.

Always oriented towards technological innovation, today Saipem is committed to supporting its clients on the frontier of the energy transition with assets, technologies and processes that are increasingly digital and oriented towards environmental sustainability.

SAIPEM, ENGINEERING ENERGY

DESCRIPTION

As part of our Engineering department, we are looking for a Material Engineer to support projects execution.

The Material Engineer will report to the Project Materials Lead Engineer. The role focuses mainly on metallic materials (linepipe, forgings, fittings, structural steel).

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Follow material manufacturing and inspection activities through all its phases, from preliminary engineering to Procurement follow-up.

Support Bids and Project in the definition of the most effective and competitive solutions for materials manufacturing.

Participate and contribute to:

• progress meeting,
• co-ordination meetings
• meetings with Client, other Contractors and Sub-Contractors
• review meeting (concerning Procurement, Engineering, Fabrication, Operation, Interface)
• meetings

TASKS

• Engineer executes the activities within his area of responsibility, ensuring the compliance with the QA/QC and HSE requirements.
• all the documents related to the definition and production of components ( pipe, fittings, etc.) needed for the construction of pipe lines, sea lines, etc.
• procurement and commercial office with technical analysis during project bid phase. Review Saipem Specifications for pipes and fittings manufacturing
• procurement department to establish bidder lists, evaluating and pre-qualifying vendors, bid assessments, audits
• Supplier documentation for compliance with client/international specifications/rules
• Technical Bid Evaluation for Linepipes and Fittings Supply
• MPQT, review/comment subcontractor documentation, review the inspection and test plan
• and interface with the method project engineers and/or TM during both proposal preparation and projects to identify particular project requirements
• with welding , NDT and anticorrosion colleagues to identify critical requirements for product manufacturing that may affect Saipem installation activities and to promote innovative solutions
• inspection site survey
• for validation to his technical group leader
• material failure analysis
• contact with Line pipes manufacturers to be updated on new technologist/Materials Selection, in order to optimize overall quality and costs
• materials selection or validate the materials selection performed by Others, by identification of possible internal and external corrosion mechanisms, taking into account the process data determined by relative disciplines and defining anticorrosion strategies (selection of corrosion resistant material, chemical treatment, painting and coatings, cathodic protection, corrosion allowances and equipment design)
• the corrosion rate calculation by using recognized models and software for sour and sweet services and evaluation of erosion allowances to validate the materials selection or perform the selection of the right CRA material
• chemical inhibition philosophy (e.g. CO2/H2S corrosion, O2 removal and control, presence of bacteria in oil and gas fluids, water treatment, seawater injection, etc.)
• corrosion engineering documents
• the corrosion strategy to the disciplines responsible of CP, Painting and Coating
• with other disciplines in order to provide corrosion-related inputs
• technical support to the construction/installation team to solve corrosion-related issues
• laboratories experimental work in corrosion field and coordinate all kind of corrosion-related tests on materials and analysis at qualified laboratories
• and coordinate materials and corrosion failure analysis upon Project/Assets request at qualified laboratories
• to Research Projects in the field of corrosion and materials performance
• on-site corrosion survey in order to provide recommendations and corrective actions
• setting up of bill of quantities or material take off (MTO)