Journeyman Pipefitter or Mechanical Inspector

Schnabel Engineering

49d•$50 - $83•Onsite

About The Position

Schnabel Engineering is seeking a highly skilled Journeyman Pipefitter or Mechanical Inspector to join our distinguished team for a project located in Alexandria, VA. With a reputation for excellence built over a decade, Schnabel Engineering shapes the foundation of our urban infrastructure. The ideal candidate will play an essential role in our team, ensuring every project we undertake observes the highest standards of safety, quality, and efficiency. Plant Upgrade Description: Solids Upgrade Program: The SUP includes replacements to the thickening and dewatering equipment, gravity thickeners, and digestor heat exchangers and mixers. The Program will decommission a pasteurization system and install a new solids dryer facility. Future technologies, such as pyrolysis, may be piloted with operational support provided throughout the pilot's duration. Preliminary and Primary Systems Upgrade Project: The PPSU Project plans to improve and rehabilitate the preliminary and primary processes located in two buildings and the Primary Settling Tanks (PSTs). The improvements in Building A include coarse screen upgrades, a third coarse screen, raw sewage pump upgrades, and raw sewage conduit rehabilitation. Building B improvements include fine screen upgrades, new screenings and grit conveyance, new truck loading technology, new grit washers, scum concentrator upgrades, and a mix of new vortex grit separators and stacked tray grit separators. Lastly, the improvements around the PSTs include primary sludge pump upgrades, refurbishment of the Primary Observation House, relocation of the existing walkway, repair of the PST effluent channel and control structures, and replacement of the PST influent baffles, slide gates, scum skimmers, and handrails. Centrate Pretreatment Project: The CPT Project will upgrade the CPT system to a modernized continuous flow DEMON system. The work will include new flow-through baffles, parabolic screens, submersible pumps, wedge wire screens, instrumentation, and associated piping and cleaning.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in process mechanical, plumbing, and HVAC inspections for wastewater and/or industrial projects of similar scope and size, and/or
Licensed pipefitter skilled in installation and repairs to complex industrial piping systems for high-pressure fluids like steam, gas, and chemicals
Certifications include licensed master pipefitter or American Petroleum Institute (API) 570 Piping Inspector, National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Coatings Inspector Level 1, and OSHA 30 trained
Ability to pass a background check which may include criminal history, motor vehicle record, and credit check
Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening

Nice To Haves

Experience in this capacity within 130 MGD or larger active wastewater treatment facility’s solids processing systems

Responsibilities

Documentation includes preparing daily reports with job photos, reporting and documenting work progress, safety and quality observations.
Reviewing maintenance of operations submittals and coordinating subsequent Plant Impact Requests with the Contractor and Plant operations.
Working with all parties to mitigate plant and project risks and facilitate integrated planning.