Principal Pipeline Engineer

Responsibilities :

Lead and manage all pipeline engineering activities and deliverables across project design, construction, commissioning, operation, and maintenance phases. Provide subject matter expertise in subsea pipeline engineering, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, regulations, and industry best practices. Deliver and review key engineering outputs, including design calculations, technical reports, specifications, procedures, analyses, and bid evaluations. Perform detailed pipeline design and analysis, including wall thickness selection, line sizing, integrity assessments, thermo-mechanical analysis, route optimization, crossings, and installation engineering. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering interfaces and ensure successful project execution within approved cost, schedule, and quality requirements. Support procurement, contractor selection, and vendor management activities, including preparation of specifications and technical evaluations. Provide technical support during pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, flooding, pigging, gauging, and risk mitigation activities. Participate in project assurance and safety reviews, including HAZID, HAZOP, and the implementation of inherently safe designs that promote a zero-incident culture. Supervise, mentor, and develop pipeline engineers and junior staff while ensuring quality assurance of FEED and detailed design deliverables. Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, resolve technical challenges, drive continuous improvement, and identify opportunities for technology adoption and operational optimization.

Requirements:

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering. NSE and COREN membership. Experience with offshore platforms, FPSOs, or onshore terminals is desirable. Minimum of 10 years’ experience within the oil and gas industry.

Skills & Competencies:

Knowledge of HSSE framework and International engineering standards, best practices, and systems. A good understanding of practices, standards and technologies relating to Oil and Gas facilities. Strong team, personal, and people management skills, committed to learning and continuous improvement Considerable customer focus, interpersonal skills and commercial astuteness are required together with initiative, expertise and energy to identify and exploit business opportunities. Good communication skills are essential. Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment. Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision-making, personal relations and communication skills are paramount for success. Intercultural awareness and team integration skills are required. Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision.