Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Job Title: Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Location: Brentford / London

Currently recruiting for a Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer for a 12 month contract duration.

• Has several specialty areas of expertise that allows leadership in technical brainstorming meetings.
• Offers leadership to the project team and leverages our ability to achieve excellent results.
• Is a strategic asset when facing external challenges such as regulatory and labour.
• Coordinating, leading, or supporting technically the wider group in pipeline related proposals.
• Enables data gathering and preparation of engineering studies, analysis, calculations, and helps/leads the creation of the final documentation.
• Assists the Pipelines and Subsea Manager in authorizing work, resource planning, obtaining customer approval, and in executing the relevant scopes.
• Ensures relevant information is incorporated into equipment/material specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions.
• Enables bid clarifications, bid evaluations, inter‑discipline vendor information review and approval, and other certification activities.
• Reviews and authorises work done by direct reports.
• Applies extensive knowledge in the application of advanced theories in asset elements, including pipelines and structures.
• Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering design.
• Keeps abreast of new scientific methods and developments affecting the organization for the purpose of recommending changes in emphasis of programs or new programs warranted by such developments.
• Presents to a larger audience on advanced engineering findings relating them to projects being executed.
• Has full technical responsibility for interpreting, organising, executing, and coordinating scopes within several projects, bringing in lessons‑learnt from the several scopes.
• Applies extensive experience over broad areas to ensure technical quality of work and efficiency of approach.
• Manages project team(s) in unusual settings or in demanding situations.
• Well‑versed in discipline set‑up, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project close‑out.
• Participates in project execution strategy and planning, knowing the discipline’s cost, time, and resource requirements to execute the scope.
• Interfaces closely with existing clients.
• Adept at assessing project risk during different project phases.

• Experienced in subsea pipeline engineering (installation and/or design).
• Familiar with and worked on Energy Transition assets.
• Basic understanding of hydrogen and CO₂ pipelines and associated assets, types of flow regimes, material requirements, design criteria, and design codes/standards.
• Versatile and able to transfer skills from one specific discipline to another.
• Preferably chartered or seeking chartership.
• Shore approach experience.
• Good working knowledge of DNV, BS, ASME, API, and ISO standards as well as other recommended practices and design codes.
• Understanding of the technical issues related to high‑pressure, high‑temperature flowlines and sour‑service pipelines.
• Familiar with finite element modelling and analysis.
• Excellent ability to interface and work closely with other disciplines in the project team and with the client.
• Ability to give advice on pipeline offshore installation.
• Ability to be a technical focal point for project‑related pipeline design challenges.
• Ability to interface with the customer or an installation contractor and provide the technical know‑how in a way that improves the quality of the deliverables and schedule.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to generate and technically review reports.
• Excellent people skills building effective business relationships, working in a team environment, liaising with other project technical and management teams. Action‑oriented and pro‑active in team management and project execution.
• Has some experience in project leadership.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Bachelor of Engineering.
• Preferred Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering or Masters of Engineering (MEng).
• UK Chartership preferred.

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