What are the responsibilities and job description for the Piping Principal Designer position at COMPA Industries, Inc.?
Compa Industries is searching for qualified candidates for an onsite Piping Principal Designer position in Greenville, SC.
Pay: $62–$70/hr
Location: Greenville, SC (Onsite)
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
🚫 Mandatory Experience Requirement – Read Before Applying
Candidates Must Have
Impact
As a Piping Principal Designer, you will function as an area lead responsible for guiding a team of designers, coordinating technical deliverables, and ensuring design accuracy across major engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects. Your leadership will directly influence schedule performance, design quality, constructability, and cross-discipline integration. This is a senior-level technical role essential to project execution in highly regulated environments.
Responsibilities And Duties
Design Leadership & Execution
Compa offers long-term career opportunities supporting high-consequence engineering and nuclear projects nationwide. With over 30 years of industry success, we provide competitive pay, stability, and a mission-driven environment focused on innovation, safety, and professional growth.
COMPA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status.
COMPA’s policy may disqualify applicants with certain criminal history for specific positions.
Pay: $62–$70/hr
Location: Greenville, SC (Onsite)
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
🚫 Mandatory Experience Requirement – Read Before Applying
Candidates Must Have
- An accredited associate degree in a related technical field and a minimum of 15 years of piping design experience.
- Demonstrated mastery with 3D modeling and 2D CADD automation tools used in large EPC projects.
- Proven experience acting as an Area Lead Designer or supervising designers on complex technical projects.
- Experience producing, checking, and coordinating complex piping designs in a multidiscipline environment.
Impact
As a Piping Principal Designer, you will function as an area lead responsible for guiding a team of designers, coordinating technical deliverables, and ensuring design accuracy across major engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) projects. Your leadership will directly influence schedule performance, design quality, constructability, and cross-discipline integration. This is a senior-level technical role essential to project execution in highly regulated environments.
Responsibilities And Duties
Design Leadership & Execution
- Serve as Area Lead Designer, providing direction and oversight to designers.
- Prepare and check designs of advanced complexity using 3D modeling and 2D CADD tools.
- Execute design work in compliance with the Project Quality Plan, scope, cost, and schedule baselines.
- Coordinate technical issues with other disciplines, vendors, clients, and project management.
- Support procurement and subcontracting activities, including vendor submittal review.
- Provide support to construction during RFIs, field changes, and installation coordination.
- Perform bulk material take-off analysis and tabulations.
- Mentor junior designers, maintain design accuracy, and support continuous process improvement.
- Other duties as assigned.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
- Associate degree in a related technical field with 15 years of work-related piping design experience.
- Working knowledge of DOE Orders and applicable federal, state, and local codes.
- Strong communication skills supporting interaction with project management, clients, vendors, and subcontractors.
- Advanced knowledge of discipline codes and standards.
- Experience executing EPC projects using 3D modeling and CADD tools in a multidiscipline environment.
- Experience designing piping systems for nuclear facilities under ASME NQA-1.
- Knowledge of commercial availability and cost of piping materials.
- Practical field installation and construction experience.
- EPC project experience in:
- DOE facilities
- Nuclear quality assurance environments
- Manufacturing, biotech, or pharmaceutical facilities
- Expertise interpreting:
- Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)
- Vendor equipment documentation
- Discipline interface drawings
- Advanced knowledge of:
- SmartPlant Review
- Equipment arrangement & layout
- Piping stress/material requirements
- Accredited associate degree in a technical field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 15 years of piping design experience, including leadership roles.
- Proficiency in MicroStation, Smart3D, and EPC design execution workflows.
Compa offers long-term career opportunities supporting high-consequence engineering and nuclear projects nationwide. With over 30 years of industry success, we provide competitive pay, stability, and a mission-driven environment focused on innovation, safety, and professional growth.
COMPA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status.
COMPA’s policy may disqualify applicants with certain criminal history for specific positions.
Salary : $62 - $70