Kintec Global Recruitment
Principal Pipeline Engineer
Hampshire
Posted about 15 hours ago
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Principal Engineer, Pipelines (Permanent)
Working Location
Hampshire. Genuine hybrid working with strong remote flexibility. International exposure with short-term visits to sites and offices worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership of the pipelines discipline across major onshore and offshore projects.
- Lead and direct a team of discipline engineers and designers on large-scale projects.
- Perform design activities for rigid onshore and offshore pipelines throughout all project phases, from concept selection through FEED, ITT, and execution.
- Supervise and review philosophies, specifications, routing studies, and mechanical design.
- Check calculations and analyses including stress, spanning, global buckling, walking, on-bottom roughness, tie-ins, and expansion loops.
- Oversee crossing design, hot tapping, and trenchless work (HDD, microtunnelling).
- Prepare datasheets and technical requisitions, compile ITTs, and carry out bid evaluations.
- Validate pipeline inspection, maintenance, and emergency repair strategies.
- Check third-party design and installation activities during execution.
- Visit manufacturers (line pipe, coating, valves) as required.
- Liaise with process, materials and corrosion, flow assurance, instrumentation, civil, and construction disciplines.
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Requirements
- Working experience in oil & gas across rigid onshore and offshore pipelines.
- Mandatory knowledge of pipeline design software such as DNV SESAM pipeline package, PET, AutoPipe, SAGE Profile, AGA.
- Desirable knowledge of ANSYS, ABAQUS, and OrcaFlex.
- Familiarity with UK and international codes (BS, DNV, ISO, API, ASME) is desirable.
- Experience leading and directing discipline engineers and designers.
- Strong planning, organisational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ambition to develop into a high-level technical expert.
- Ideally degree qualified in Pipeline, Subsea, Offshore, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering.
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Contract Type
Permanent
Benefits
- Principal-level technical leadership of the pipelines discipline.
- Work across a varied project portfolio including greenfield, brownfield, and carbon capture projects.
- Involvement in the full project lifecycle from concept selection to execution.
- Hybrid working arrangements with strong flexibility for remote work.
- International project involvement and short-term travel opportunities.
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Skills
Pipeline Design
Technical Leadership
Onshore and Offshore Pipelines
Stress Analysis
Global Buckling
Trenchless Work
HDD
Microtunnelling
DNV SESAM
AutoPipe
SAGE Profile
ANSYS
ABAQUS
OrcaFlex
Project Management
Bid Evaluation