Doug V.

Experience

• Senior Piping Designer tesium · Freelance Jun 2025 – Sep 2026 1 yrs 3 mos Germany Piping design and equipment layout for Project Fortune, India, a production facility for the manufacture of sunscreen
  products.
  • Developed and routed various piping systems using SmartPlant 3D (SP3D).
  • Designed and incorporated piping support arrangements using the Sikla support system.
  • Developed layouts in accordance with project requirements and applicable design standards.
• Senior Piping Designer / Draughtman NIRAS · Freelance Feb 2022 – Sep 2024 2 yrs 7 mos Dublin, Ireland Senior Piping Designer — Remote from Spain
  • Delivered piping design for pharmaceutical and food & beverage projects including Zoetis, Fujifilm, Novo Nordisk, Heineken
  and Baileys while working remotely from Spain with international teams.
  • Designed black and clean utility piping systems using AutoCAD Plant 3D and BIM 360.
  • Coordinated isometric production with an India-based workshare team, including ISO production/checking and GA
  generation.
• Senior Piping Designer — Pfizer Pharmaceutical Project MSL Engineering · Freelance Oct 2021 – Feb 2022 4 mos Cork, Ireland Delivered remote piping design and 3D modelling for the Pfizer pharmaceutical project using AutoCAD Plant 3D and BIM
  360. • Developed packaged assemblies designed to minimise site fabrication, including pumps, manifolds and AHU units.
• Senior Piping Designer / Checker — Wuxi Pharmaceutical Project Jones Engineering · Freelance Feb 2019 – Apr 2020 1 yrs 2 mos Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland Produced piping designs using AutoCAD Plant 3D and AutoCAD P&ID for the Wuxi pharmaceutical project.
  • Coordinated and checked fabrication isometrics as the project progressed into fabrication deliverables.
  • Worked effectively in both office-based and remote project environments.
• Senior Piping Designer / Applications Support / Coordination — Tengiz TCO SGR / FGP Fluor Corporation · Freelance Oct 2013 – Jun 2019 5 yrs 8 mos Atyrau, Kazakhstan Supported Brownfield design, site surveys, tie-in job packs, isometric production/checking, destruct/construct
  documentation and 3D modelling.
  • Designed and developed modularised Coalescer and Sweet Gas Cooler packages, including plot plans, stress sketches and
  isometrics using PDS and AutoCAD.
  • Provided site support and prepared tie-in documentation for scheduled shutdowns.
• Senior Piping Designer with Multi-Platform 3D Plant-Design Experience history · Freelance May 1983 – May 2013 30 yrs Sutton, UK 2012–2013 | AMEC, London Senior Piping Designer / Clash Coordinator
  Cygnus Development Project — piping clash coordination across four offshore platforms; drains layout, ISO and data coordination.
  2011–2012 | KBR, Leatherhead Senior Piping Designer / ISO Coordinator
  Hess South Arne Phase II — ISO coordination, schedule delivery, reporting, modelling and data coordination. 2010–2011 | Initec, Spain
  Senior Piping Designer / Piping CAD Applications Specialist Guangdong Zhuhai Golden Bay LNG terminal — flare, BOG compressor and recondenser area design.
  2006–2010 | WorleyParsons Senior Piping Designer / Piping CAD Applications Specialist
  KDPC — CAD support, PDS data/reporting, manifold area lead and ISO production coordination. 2001–2004 | Fluor Daniel, Holland / UK / Kazakhstan
  Senior Piping Designer / Piping CAD Applications Specialist TCO/PFD Asset Development — PDS application support and administration across a major workshare project.
  1997–2000 | ABB Lummus Global Engineering / Odebrecht / SLP Senior Piping Designer / Coordinator
  Shell SPOTS and Texaco Captain projects — PDS setup, piping design, drawing generation, ISOGEN and CAD support. Additional career experience (1983–1997): Bechtel, KTI Engineering, Statoil, Read Systems, BP ETAP, R.M. Parsons, Air
  Products, Hamilton Brothers, CADAC and Global Engineering. Roles progressed from Piping Designer Apprentice through Piping Designer to senior design, coordination and CAD support responsibilities across onshore, offshore, refinery, chemical and packaged plant projects.