Piping Testing Superintendent

Talascend is currently seeking a Piping Testing Superintendent for a contract opportunity with our client in Brownsville, Texas.

Overview

The Piping Testing Superintendent (Day or Night Shift) will be responsible for overseeing large-scale pneumatic testing activities, ensuring safety, compliance, and schedule adherence on a major energy construction project in Brownsville, Texas. The role involves leading night-shift crews, managing testing procedures, troubleshooting issues, and coordinating with multiple teams to meet project milestones.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise, and coordinate night-shift crews performing pneumatic pressure testing on assigned systems, ensuring adherence to project procedures, test plans, and safety protocols.
• Review test boundaries, isometrics, P&IDs, and engineering documentation to confirm system readiness.
• Manage pre-test verification including line walks, isolation checks, blinds, gauge calibration, and manifold setup.
• Oversee execution of pneumatic tests, ensuring stability, proper pressurization rate, leak detection, and compliance with allowable pressure drop tolerances.
• Mitigate hazards associated with stored energy, pressure containment, and component failure by enforcing strict exclusion zones, barricading, and Life-Critical Rules.
• Identify and troubleshoot issues such as valve leakage, instrument failures, inadequate isolation, cold-work conflicts, or material defects.
• Coordinate with QA/QC for hold points, documentation sign-off, punch list creation, and post-test restoration.
• Drive nightly progress reporting, manpower allocation, equipment needs, and forecasted completions.
• Work proactively with survey, scaffolding, coatings, and other interfacing disciplines to remove work blockers.
• Maintain accurate records of test pressures, durations, failures, retests, and sign-off packages for turnover to completions and commissioning.
• Train and mentor foremen and craft workers on pneumatic testing hazards, procedures, and best practices.
• Support system prioritization to meet turnover milestones, critical path activities, and hydro/pneumatic sequencing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience.
• Keen knowledge of construction or engineering operations related to field activities.
• Experience on LNG construction sites, especially along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
• Heavy industrial direct hire construction experience related to oil, gas, refinery, petrochemical, minerals processing, or power generating stations.
• Computer literate with proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, and database applications.
• Working knowledge of industry codes and standards.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.