Senior Piping Engineer - Plant Design
GEA Group
Posted: February 20, 2026
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Quick Summary
A Senior Piping Engineer with expertise in designing sanitary and hygienic piping systems for food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Required Skills
Job Description
Responsibilities / Tasks
· Develop Piping layouts for sanitary and hygienic applications, including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries, ensuring compliance with relevant standards (e.g., ASME BPE).
· Ensure designs minimize dead legs and promote cleanability and sterilizability, supporting CIP (Clean-in-Place) and SIP (Sterilize-in-Place) operations.
· Incorporate industry-specific standards, such as ASME-BPE, into piping designs to ensure the system meets sanitary and hygienic regulations.
· Ensure all fittings, valves, and components adhere to hygienic standards to maintain product integrity.
· Design skids and valve manifolds for hygienic systems, ensuring compact layouts that meet operational, cleaning, and maintenance requirements.
· Work with process engineers to integrate piping systems into hygienic equipment such as tanks, pumps, and heat exchangers.
· Ensure seamless integration of hygienic piping with instruments like flowmeters, pressure sensors, and temperature transmitters.
· Develop piping designs that promote laminar flow, reduce turbulence, and prevent product stagnation, ensuring optimal process efficiency and hygiene.
· Analyze and address potential areas of contamination in the system design.
· Create and review 3D models tailored to hygienic piping systems using tools like Autodesk Plant 3D, ensuring precision in complex assemblies.
· Contribute to Modularization of P&IDs using AutoCAD Plant 3D.
· Experience with Plant 3D Data manager and report creation.
· Work with ACC (Autodesk Construction cloud) collaboration tool.
· Work with SharePoint platform for document management.
· Use clash detection software Navisworks to ensure clean and efficient piping layouts.
· Collaborate with process, mechanical, and instrumentation teams to align piping designs with broader system requirements.
Your Profile / Qualifications
• Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience in process plant design software in a process-engineering environment.
• Degree/Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Certification in Piping Design, 3D Modeling Tools (e.g., Autodesk Plant 3D) would be added advantage.
• Experienced with CAD Software. (AutoCAD Plant 3D is Mandatory)
• Explain and demonstrates concepts and advanced technologies in an understandable way.
• Professional experience & Knowledge of 3D Plant Design Software.
• Knowledge of various international standards.
• Fast learner, systematic, analytical, and curious about software and usability.
• Take on tough challenges with sense of ownership. Approach - work individually and with teams with optimism and solution-oriented Agile mindset.
• Self-driven, learn continuously, extract learning from experience, share and help team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Must have Good English skill – Verbal and written.
• Comfortable to work in a multicultural environment.
• AutoCAD Plant3D (Mandatory)
• Autodesk Mechanical (Mandatory)
• Navisworks Manage (Preferred)
• BIM360/ACC Collaboration (Preferred)
• Autodesk Inventor (Added Advantage)
• Autodesk Vault / Pro (Added advantage)
• Knowledge in C#, Java, and Python languages (Added advantage)
• Experience in software development projects.
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