While you may well wish to get up to speed and learn how to use a new piece of software, remember it is just software!
The experience of being on site for a long period, seeing correct and incorrect piping designs in the physical, noticing things than could be improved and installed better will all add to your ability as a designer.
If you go to a company without being proficient in piping design and layout, the knowledge and use of a new piece of software will mean nothing.
Cadworx is very simple to use and can be quite easily self taught is you have a good foundation of AutoCAD use & 3D modelling.
Piping design experience is not so easy, so every opportunity early in your career should be made to get out there and see it for real.
I’m from the UK & work here also, I use Cadworx & have also used PDMS, Autocad Plant 3D.
We regularly employ people with no Cadworx experience, because it is so easy to pick up, we are more interested in people who can design and have the experience to back it up.
Site work in my past has been the biggest help to me.
Perhaps if you are not happy with the piping/equipment inspector role, you should consider looking for a site based piping designer role, or for a role in a company that provides the design & maintenance & expansion of existing facilities, giving you the opportunity to work both in the design office and on site.
