**Location** - Bogota, Colombia **Category** - Engineering **Date Published** - 16/04/25 **Status** - Open - About you: **Join us. Unleash your energy within.** If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company - future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector. We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage. We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process. Our purpose and beliefs: As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined. It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet: We PLAY BIG We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE We are built on INFINITE THINKING Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us: Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging: We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging. Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. - ** About the job**: At Kent we are looking for a **Principal Engineer - Piping**to support ongoing projects. The role will include the development and analysis of efforts following standards and customer requirements, technical support to engineers in the review and improvement of standards, and participation in audits to resolve findings and optimize processes. **Skills and Responsibilities**: **Responsibilities**: - Design Elaboration: Elaborate and review designs (documents and drawings) and incorporate comments, according to specific requests from the Engineering area and Projects, using the software and office package and standards, in order to comply with the requirements of each discipline. - Planning and Execution: Plan and supervise the execution of each project, defining the scope, applicable standards and assigning priorities to the work group to comply with the Detailed Work Plan (DWP) and the man hours of the project. - Bid Preparation: Be able to define, as needed, the resource estimation, through project knowledge and experience, in order to obtain a proposal that meets the client's requirements. - Technical Quality Management in deliverables: Use the tools and methods established by the company to control the quality of the deliverables, according to the specialty to which it is assigned, using the standards and control schemes that have been defined, in order to ensure that all projects meet the parameters of Quality and Compliance defined in the Quality Plan for each project and the Promise of Value. - Registration and control of man-hours: Register the consumption of man-hours of each deliverable / activity in the system of registration and control of man-hours established by the company, in order to monitor the profitability of the project. - Support in Customer Technical Queries: Respond to technical queries made by the client, interacting in formal and periodic meetings, in order to adequately resolve concerns and identify possible changes in scope or rework that require immediate implementation of change control actions. - Static and dynamic module management of CAESAR II. - Static-dynamic stress analysis and flexibility of piping systems for transportation facilities, treatment, refining of crude oil, its derivatives and accompanying fluids under standards and codes (ASME, API, WRC). - Modal analysis and water hammer in CAESAR II with interpretation of results. - Interpretation of ASME code B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, B31.8 (Section - Stress and/or flexibility calculation) - Critical line selection criteria in stress analysis - Verification of loads in static and rotating equipment according to API, NEMA, WR