About the Role
This role focuses on providing strong HSSE leadership while fostering a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence. The position involves leading pipeline engineering activities for multiple onshore Oil & Gas projects and giving technical leadership to pipeline engineering teams. The aim is to drive technical excellence and optimization throughout all project phases, including concept, FEED, detailed design, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
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Primary Responsibilities
- Provide strong HSSE leadership and promote a culture of safety, integrity, and operational excellence.
- Lead pipeline engineering activities for multiple onshore Oil & Gas projects while providing technical leadership to pipeline engineering teams.
- Drive technical excellence and optimization throughout all project phases.
- Ensure compliance of pipeline engineering deliverables with applicable codes, standards, regulatory requirements, and project specifications.
- Offer technical guidance, mentoring, and leadership to engineering teams aimed at achieving project objectives and business goals.
- Support project execution through innovation, continuous improvement, and effective engineering management practices.
Specific Accountabilities
- Lead and manage pipeline engineering activities for onshore pipeline projects from concept through detailed design and project execution.
- Conduct pipeline route selection, optimization studies, and feasibility assessments to identify cost-effective solutions.
- Develop pipeline sizing, hydraulic analysis, and engineering designs to meet operational and performance requirements.
- Prepare pipeline cost estimates and offer technical input for project budgeting and planning activities.
- Provide technical support during procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup phases.
- Review and approve pipeline engineering deliverables, calculations, drawings, specifications, and technical reports.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities, ensuring technical alignment across project disciplines.
- Assist project engineers in preparing design criteria, scopes of work, technical procedures, and contract documentation.
- Manage engineering interfaces and coordinate activities with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Support proposal development and provide technical input for bid and tender submissions.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary coordination and resolution of technical challenges.
- Oversee engineering activities performed by workshare and remote execution teams.
- Ensure compliance with quality assurance requirements and project management procedures.
- Promote safe working practices and ensure adherence to HSSE requirements throughout project execution.
- Monitor engineering progress to ensure delivery within approved budgets and schedules.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Preferred professional membership with a recognized engineering institution.
- Minimum 18 years of pipeline engineering experience within the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical industries.
- Extensive experience in FEED, detailed design, and execution of onshore pipeline projects.
- Strong knowledge of pipeline routing, hydraulic design, stress analysis, materials selection, and pipeline integrity management.
- Experience supporting pipeline construction, commissioning, and operational activities.
- Proven experience in leading multidisciplinary engineering teams within complex project environments.
- Strong understanding of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and project execution activities.
- Proficiency in pipeline engineering and stress analysis software, including CAESAR II or equivalent.
- Strong project management, planning, scheduling, and project controls capabilities.
- Excellent technical report writing, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage interfaces with workshare and remote engineering execution centers.
- Proven ability to work independently and deliver engineering solutions within demanding project schedules.
- Preferred experience working in Middle East Oil & Gas project environments.
- Advantageous experience with offshore pipeline engineering activities.
- Demonstrated commitment to HSSE leadership and quality management principles.
- Experience managing EPCM projects.
Moving Forward Together
We aim to energize and empower our people to drive sustainable impact through a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection, and innovation. Our focus is to build a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard.
We prioritize reskilling our workforce and leverage transferable skills to transition our team into experts in today's low-carbon energy infrastructure and technology. Regardless of your ambitions, there is a path for you here, free of barriers to potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.
