Junior Piping 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.

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.

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.

The Junior Piping Designer assists in the preparation of design documents and drawings during the execution of a project specific to their discipline specialty (Piping, Civil, Structural & Architectural (CSA), Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls (EIC)).

Duties include:

• Drafting moderate-to-complex 2D drawings, charts, schedules, etc.
• Preparing as-built drawings based on field red-line markups
• Developing designs and layouts requiring theoretical and practical design knowledge in a specialized field
• Assuring that work complies with the accuracy level and time constraints required for the assignment
• Potentially directing work for a small number of Junior Designer/Drafters, providing guidance and instruction on work methods, and checking finished work
• Drafting 2D drawings including PFDs, P&IDs, DPDTs, MSDs, plot plans, key plans, site plans, etc.
• Drafting intelligent P&IDs using PDMS, Smart Plant or other such software
• Conforming to client and company standards when carrying out intelligent P& (or project specific equivalent) data entry tasks such as item tagging for equipment, piping, manual valves and instrumentation (in addition to other object properties)
• Performing other duties as requested

• Technical school certification / degree or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team including Process, Mechanical, Civil, Structural & Architectural, Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls and Piping
• Excellent communication skills (interpersonal and written) and proven ability to collaborate with team members in a multi-discipline environment
• Strong organizational skills, technical competence and attention to detail
• Ability to meet safety requirements to attend site visits

• Two years of experience in facilities engineering and design in the energy industry
• Technical school certification / degree
• Advanced computer skills and experience in major design software such as CADWorx, Smart Plant, AutoPLANT, AVEVA and PDMS

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the typeof 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.

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are…