Principal Pipeline Engineer

Job description / Role

Oil & Gas

Job overview

The Principal Pipeline Engineer may be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of pipeline engineering. As such, they must have in-depth expertise in pipeline engineering as well as broad knowledge of the pipeline engineering discipline within the engineering function.

Responsibilities

• Interpret internal and external business challenges in the pipeline engineering discipline; the role requires specialized depth and breadth of expertise in the area of pipeline engineering.
• Interpret internal or external business issues and recommend best practices; solve complex pipeline-related problems and work independently with minimal guidance.
• May be responsible for leading functional teams or projects and is regarded as a specialist in the field of pipeline engineering; as such, they must have in-depth expertise in pipeline engineering as well as broad knowledge of the pipeline engineering discipline within the engineering function.
• Become fully familiar with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements; including identifying concerns as early as practicable and taking appropriate initiatives to address the issues.
• Interpret contractual requirements as they relate to engineering execution.
• Identify changes to scope and promptly raise change notifications, including providing any necessary supporting documentation and estimates; provide similar support for variation orders.
• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs.
• Interface with other departments to obtain input for discipline designs and drawings.
• Maintain close coordination with other engineering disciplines, planning, fabrication, marine, and project management team, as required.
• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to discipline lead engineer and discipline manager.
• Prepare estimates for bid proposals, including technical query reviews, execution statements, and workhour estimates, identifying software requirements and any other project-specific requirements.
• Raise technical queries to obtain missing information, clarify work scope, and maintain preferred procedures, specifications, standards, practices, and operational requirements.
• Prepare, review, and (as lead engineer) approve discipline engineering design basis, philosophies, and technical specifications.
• Participate in finalizing deliverables lists and deliverables, ensuring compliance with specifications and functional integrity.
• Review project schedule and fabrication schedule about construction sequence, milestones, and engineering scope.
• Attend project kickoff and review meetings, vendor meetings, engineering meetings, and offshore site surveys, as required.
• Provide technical direction and review of designeru2019s production products related to pipeline engineering.
• Prepare, review, and (as lead engineer) approve design reports and procedures.
• Assist in providing necessary design inputs to other disciplines to enable them to proceed with their deliverables.
• Assist procurement personnel in procuring discipline equipment, materials, and services; ensuring that work produced complies with customer objectives and procedures. Procurement assistance includes preparing, reviewing, and (as lead engineer) approving requisitions, evaluating technical quotations, preparing queries, compiling bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by the discipline lead engineer.
• Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information.
• Review and (as lead engineer) approve vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary.
• Review and (as lead engineer) approve design verification through single-discipline check/inter-discipline check (IDC).
• Provide technical support to fabrication queries, including identifying defect rectification requirements.
• Keep the discipline manager and project management team apprised of all activities and concerns, technical, budgetary, and manpower related.
• Assist in providing inputs for actual, planning, and forecasting progress reports including associated productivity.
• Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved.
• Present issues and problems to customers promptly and assist the lead engineer in negotiating resolution by project and company requirements.
• Perform (as required) technical quality audit reviews by MOR global procedures.
• Assist lead engineer with responses to customer and other agencies (such as certifying authorities, auditors, third parties, etc.) on their review and approval.
• Capture lessons learned and enter them into a database system.
• Capture knowledge objects and enter them into the database system.
• Guide less experienced engineers on MOR and discipline procedures, standards, worksheets, design calculations, software, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, technical queries, etc.
• Supervise and guide assigned engineers and coordinate with project teams.

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