Senior Lead, Engineering Technology

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost. 

We are seeking a Senior Smart Reference Data (SRD) to join our team in Houston. In this role you will work with Smart tool administrators, Engineering and Design Departments to provide operational support for development and maintenance of piping specifications, specialty items in SRD. This person will be responsible to bulkload piping specs in S3D catalog and make the necessary configurations to ensure that all spec components can be placed correctly in the Smart3D (S3D) model and are represented appropriately on deliverables such as Isometrics and Reports. This person will lead and mentor other team members supporting piping specification development and update in SRD. This person must have a working knowledge S3D modeling environment and must have the ability to configure and troubleshoot issues related to piping specifications.

This position will report to the Director of Engineering Technology

Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• →Setup and configure the SRD instance for Venture Global standard pipe specs, in collaboration with IT, Engineering Technology admins, and Project Engineering teams.
• →Setting up and managing new and existing engineering projects within Smart Reference Data (SRD).
• →Providing user-support to project resources on SRD, S3D specs, and other related issues as needed.
• →Creating and managing Pipe specifications in SRD throughout the project lifecycle.
• →Coordinating with Piping Spec/material engineers on new spec requests and spec markups as needed.
• →Understanding and following Venture Global’s standard work processes for creating new specs and managing spec changes through the project lifecycle.
• →Develop and maintain SQL/SSRD/PowerBI reports for SRD data to manage and maintain engineering data.
• →Develop procedures/workflows, and automation solutions for checking and validating MOC impacts across SRD and S3D.
• →Interfacing directly with software vendor to escalate issues (bugs) and request new functionality to support Venture Global’s standard workflows, which needs a strong technical understanding of the software applications.
• →Mapping Iso SKEYS correctly for each component type to ensure standard output on deliverables.
• →Developing bulkload sheets for Specialty Items (SP items) as per project request and make them available in S3D catalog as tagged items.
• →Bulkloading pipe specs and catalog changes from SRD to Smart3D (S3D) catalog.
• →Coordinating with the project design teams to ensure that the S3D model is in synchronization with latest catalog changes.
• →Verifying the component placement in SP3D using Catalog Placement tester utility.
• →Customize report templates for automating spec report generation using APEX Office Print (AOP) and issuing paper specs.
• →Troubleshooting component placement issues in S3D in coordination with S3D support team.
• →Troubleshooting ToDo list errors related to catalog changes in S3D.
• →Continually seeking opportunities to increase end-user experience.
• →Documenting changes and work processes. Must be able to communicate effectively with project teams, and management while maintaining a structured approach of working within a larger integrated engineering solution.

• Bachelor’s degree in materials, mechanical, chemical engineering or similar engineering discipline.
• 8+ years or more experience in Smart Reference Data administration, configuration, development, and version upgrade.
• Strong understanding of ASME piping code and standards.
• Thorough knowledge of SRDPlus interface is a must.
• Experience with upgrading major versions of SRD
• Experience in using Smart3D (S3D) and Catalog placement tool.
• Proficient with S3D Piping modeling functionality and ability to configure/generate Isometric drawings from S3D.
• Relevant engineering and/or construction industry experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Highly motivated and self-directed with strong communication skills
• Experience as a technical leader and/or team lead is a plus.

• Completion of admin and user training for Smart Reference Data.
• Knowledge in customization of Symbol Editor using VB .NET symbols for components – custom symbols.
• Strong knowledge of methods for data-centric execution.
• Experience in piping design, and material engineering is a plus.
• LNG project execution experience preferred
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Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.