North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer

RINA Piraeus Team; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

RINA in Houston, TX is seeking a Senior North America Pipeline Design Engineer to lead piping design projects for hydrocarbon facilities and ensure compliance with client specifications.

You will manage a design team, coordinate interfaces, and mentor staff while delivering projects on schedule in the Plant Engineering division.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure safety, quality and regulatory compliance across all project phases.

Qualifications

• Leads piping design for petroleum, natural gas, power, and related facilities.
• Performs and oversees engineering and CAD design to meet specs.
• Assigns work, mentors team, and manages subconsultant activities.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with local, state, and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct engineering and oversee planning and design of hydrocarbon facilities.
• Apply client and industry specs to projects.
• Manage interfaces to meet project schedules.
• Lead team in system configuration and component design.
• Oversee construction support and technical activities.
• Identify hotspots and priorities.
• Optimize processes to reduce time and cost.
• Coordinate resources and supervise drafting.
• Report to Pipeline Principal Engineer.
• Develop staff through assignments and training.

Job description

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Posting Date: 30 Sept 2026

City: Houston

Location: Houston, TX, US, 77070

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Plant Engineering

Level of experience: Senior

RINA is a global knowledge company whereexpertisetravels across borders, disciplines, and industries. Every day, we collaborate on solving complexchallenges that no single field could tackle alone. With a presence in more than 70 countries and 160 years of heritage, we turn individualknow-howinto collective progress.

We are currently recruiting for a North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer to join our officewithin thePlant Engineering Division.

Mission

The Senior Piping Engineer leads piping design projects for petroleum, natural gas, power, industrial, and related facilities. This role performs and oversees engineering and CAD design work to ensure compliance with client and industry specifications. The engineer also assigns work, trains and mentors team members, and manages subconsultant design activities.

Key Accountabilities

Pipeline Design, Engineering Studies and Analyses:

• Conduct engineering and oversee planning and design of hydrocarbon, natural gas, compressed air, steam, and related facilities.

• Understand and apply client and industry engineering specifications to projects.

• Manage all internal and external project interfaces to ensure timely provision of necessary input and information to meet project execution schedules.

• Lead the engineering team in developing strategies for system configuration tasks and component design, ensuring progress and satisfactory task completion within project constraints.

Construction Support:

• Oversee and execute all technical activities within the discipline.

• Provide technical support and direction to solve engineering issues.

• Identify project and contract hot spots, criticalities, and activity priorities.

• Optimize technical engineering processes to achieve reduced time and costs.

Resource Management:

• Coordinate resources assigned to the discipline.

• Supervise and coordinate all engineering, design, and drafting activities.

• Ensure the proper management of interfaces with other disciplines and construction/installation activities, driving the team toward optimized cost-effective solutions.

• Interact with client’s management and engineering department to facilitate project efforts.

Project Oversight:

• Control project schedules and ensure adherence to timelines.

• Supervise and coordinate the review and independent analysis of pipelines during third-party engineering activities.

• Oversee requisitioning and technical bid evaluations.

Development and Reporting:

• Develop personnel skills and flexibility through work assignments, responsibilities, seminars, and courses.

• Ensure the capitalization of project experience to improve work methodologies.

• Report to the Pipeline Principal Engineer.

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure that pipeline design comply with local, state and federal regulations, as well as industry standards and codes.

• Participate in new business development activities – providing scope descriptions and hours estimates for proposals and participating in client meetings and presentations.

• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and third-party consultants.

• Develop and mentor technical staff.

At RINA, your growth drives our innovation. We bring together engineers, inspectors, digital minds and specialists from more than 100 nationalities, creating an environment where diverse perspectives sharpen how we think, collaborate and deliver.

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