
Frank Walkes
Piping Engineer
Piping systems designed safe, compliant and buildable
Piping engineer with twelve years designing piping systems for oil, gas and petrochemical projects, based in Houston. Designs and engineers piping — layouts, stress analysis, material selection and specifications — that meet code, operate safely, and can actually be built and maintained. Led the piping design on a major plant project delivered to code and on schedule. Produces piping layouts and isometrics, runs stress and flexibility analysis, selects materials and specs, supports construction, and works to ASME and industry codes. Strong on both the technical piping engineering and the practical, constructible design the role demands. Methodical and rigorous about safety and code. Looking for a piping-engineer or mechanical-piping role with an operator, EPC or engineering firm delivering process plants.
Houston Process Engineering - Houston, TX
Piping Engineer April 2014 to Present 12 years & 3 months
Led the piping design on a major plant project delivered to code and on schedule.
Produce all the piping layouts and the isometrics and run the stress and flexibility analysis.
Select all the materials and prepare the piping specifications to the ASME and industry codes.
Support the construction and resolve all the piping issues to keep the whole build moving.
Ensure that all the designs are safe, fully compliant and genuinely constructible and maintainable too.
Texas Plant Solutions - Houston, TX
Mechanical / Piping Designer August 2011 to March 2014 2 years & 8 months
Supported the stress analysis and the material selection under the senior engineers.
Learned the ASME codes, piping design and plant engineering on the job.
Gained the piping certification and then moved into a piping-engineer role.
Texas Plant Solutions - Houston, TX
Mechanical Draftsman June 2008 to July 2011 3 years & 2 months
Learned the CAD, the drawings and how plants are laid out.
Built up the drafting grounding that piping engineering is built on.
Then earned the move into a full piping-designer role from there.
University of Houston
BSc in Mechanical Engineering (August 2007 to May 2011)
ASME / Industry Training
Piping Design & ASME Code Certification (January 2014 to June 2014)
Petrochemical Plant Piping Design
Piping Engineer (January 2018 to June 2020)
Refinery Piping Revamp
Piping Engineer (January 2020 to June 2020)
Plant delivered to code
Buildable by design
Piping Design & ASME Code
ASME / Industry Training (June 2014 to Present)
Stress Analysis (CAESAR II)
Hexagon (April 2019 to Present)
- Piping Design
- Piping Layout & Isometrics
- Stress Analysis
- Material Selection
- Piping Specifications
- ASME Codes
- P&ID Interpretation
- Construction Support
- CAD / CAESAR II
- Plant Engineering