Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Worley; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley is seeking an experienced Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer to lead engineering studies, design, and technical procurement for subsea pipeline projects. You will coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, interface with clients, and drive project success through rigorous technical leadership.

The role requires broad experience in subsea pipelines, familiarity with energy transition assets, and a solid grasp of relevant standards and codes. Shore approach expertise and chartership are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in subsea pipeline engineering (installation and/or design).
• Familiar with Energy Transition assets.
• Understanding of Hydrogen and CO2 pipelines, flow regimes, materials, design criteria, and design codes.
• Chartered or seeking chartership.
• Shore approach experience.
• Knowledge of DNV, BS, ASME, API, and ISO standards.
• Understanding of high pressure, high temperature flowlines and sour service pipelines.
• Experience with Finite Element modelling and analysis.
• Ability to interface with other disciplines and clients to improve deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Enabling data gathering and preparation of engineering studies, analyses, calculations, and supporting creation of final documentation.
• Assisting Pipelines and Subsea Manager in authorizing work, resource planning, and customer approvals.
• Ensuring information is incorporated into specifications, data sheets, testing requirements, and material requisitions; supports bid clarifications and evaluations.
• Applying advanced theories in asset elements for pipelines and structures.
• Participating in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews and ensuring requirements are included in design.
• Presenting advanced engineering findings to project teams and clients.

Skills

Subsea pipeline engineering

Project leadership

Communication skills

Client interfacing

Standards knowledge

Shore approach experience

Finite Element modelling

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

BSc in Engineering

MSc Engineering

UK Chartered Engineer

Job description

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia.?

Right now, we’re bridging two worlds as we accelerate to more sustainable energy sources, while helping our customers provide the energy, chemicals and resources that society needs now.

We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their portfolio of assets. We solve complex problems by finding integrated data-centric solutions from the first stages of consulting and engineering to installation and commissioning, to the last stages of decommissioning and remediation.

Join us and help drive innovation and sustainability in our projects.

Job Title: Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Role Context

• 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

You'll Be

• Enabling data gathering and preparation of engineering studies, analysis, calculations, and helps/leads the creation of the final documentation.
• Assisting the Pipelines and Subsea Manager in authorizing work, resource planning, obtaining customer approval, and in executing the relevant scopes
• Ensuring 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 authorizes work done by direct reports
• Applying extensive knowledge in the application of advanced theories in asset elements, including pipelines and structures.
• Seeking input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering design.
• Keeping 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.
• Presenting to a larger audience on advanced engineering findings relating them to projects being executed.
• Ability to maintain full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating scopes within several projects; bring in lessons learnt from the several scopes.
• Applying extensive experience over broad areas to ensure technical quality of work and efficiency of approach
• Managing project team(s) in unusual settings or in demanding situations.
• Well versed in discipline setup, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project closeout.
• Participating 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

Essential Education:

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

Experience

• 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
• An understanding of the technical issues related to high pressure, high temperature flowlines and sour service pipelines
• Familiar in 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 such 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

Moving Forward

We want our people to be energized and empowered to drive sustainable impact. So, our focus is on a values-inspired culture that unlocks brilliance through belonging, connection and innovation.

We’re building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and are heard. And we're not just talking about it; we're doing it. We're reskilling our people, leveraging transferable skills, and supporting the transition of our workforce to become experts in today's low carbon energy infrastructure and technology.

Whatever your ambition, there’s a path for you here. And there’s no barrier to your potential career success. Join us to broaden your horizons, explore diverse opportunities, and be part of delivering sustainable change.