Senior Piping Engineer (3924)

Navarro Research and Engineering is recruiting a Senior Piping Engineer (3924) for a new Nuclear Fuel Facility.

Navarro is an award-winning provider of turnkey solutions, delivering comprehensive nuclear, environmental and technical services to federal agencies, commercial enterprises and private clients across the United States. Our expertise supports organizations such as the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Defense and NASA, while also extending to commercial industries and private sector partners facing complex engineering, technical and environmental challenges. Navarro specializes in nuclear operations, environmental remediation, D&D, waste management, advanced energy, facilities management, and technical and professional services. For more information, please visit Navarro-inc.com.

Position Summary

The Senior Piping Engineer will provide technical leadership for piping engineering scope supporting a new nuclear fuel facility. This role will focus on high-temperature piping systems, piping specifications, routing, anchoring, supports, stress considerations, constructability, and integration with process equipment, hot cells, building systems, and facility utilities.

The position requires a senior piping engineer capable of leading design reviews, resolving complex piping issues, coordinating with designers and engineers, and ensuring piping systems are safe, maintainable, operable, and aligned with nuclear, chemical, DOE, or high-hazard facility requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead piping engineering design activities for process piping, high-temperature piping, utility piping, specialty systems, and facility piping interfaces.
• Develop, review, and approve piping specifications, piping classes, line lists, tie-in requirements, routing concepts, support strategies, anchoring approaches, and technical calculations.
• Evaluate high-temperature piping behavior, expansion, flexibility, anchoring, guides, supports, equipment loads, routing constraints, and maintainability requirements.
• Review piping layouts, isometrics, support details, stress analysis inputs, material selections, valve requirements, penetration details, and vendor documentation.
• Coordinate piping design with process, mechanical, I&C, HVAC, electrical, civil/structural, safety basis, radiological controls, quality, construction, and operations teams.
• Support design reviews, constructability reviews, hazard reviews, field walkdowns, procurement activities, construction issue resolution, testing, startup, and commissioning.
• Provide technical direction to piping designers and engineers while maintaining configuration control, quality, and schedule alignment.
• Prepare engineering dispositions, technical evaluations, design change packages, and clear recommendations for project leadership.