Senior Principal Engineer

Technip Energies; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Technip Energies is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to lead Civil, Structural and Architectural activities across FEED and mid-sized EPC projects, including energy-transition initiatives. You will manage a multidisciplinary team, coordinate interfaces, and ensure on-time, within-budget delivery to clients and partners.

The role requires deep CSA expertise, construction-site experience, and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in a relevant discipline.
• 20+ years of design and execution experience in conventional energy or energy-transition projects.
• Broad familiarity with civil, structural, and architectural engineering aspects.
• Construction-site experience.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Experience leading engineering teams and coordinating project execution interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead CSA execution and deliverables to meet schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Process/HSE, Procurement, Construction and subcontractors.
• Represent the discipline on technical matters with clients and partners.
• Establish team organization, budgets, and progress tracking.
• Monitor KPIs, manage change and ensure documentation quality.

Skills

Leadership

English fluency

Project coordination

Education

Engineering degree

Professional Engineer registration

Tools

JANUS

Foundation 3D

Mat3D

Shaft3D

RAM Connection

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Technip Energies, we are more than just a leading engineering and technology company — we are pioneers committed to shaping a sustainable future. With over 65 years of experience and 15,000+ talented professionals worldwide, we deliver innovative solutions to real-world energy challenges through collaboration and an inclusive culture.

About Us

At Technip Energies, we are more than just a leading engineering and technology company — we are pioneers committed to shaping a sustainable future. With over 65 years of experience and 15,000+ talented professionals worldwide, we deliver innovative solutions to real-world energy challenges through collaboration and an inclusive culture.

Join us on a one-of-a-kind journey where you can take pride in Being Part of the Solution for the benefit of our planet, people, and communities.

Position Summary

The Senior Principal Engineer leads all Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) engineering activities for assigned projects, ensuring delivery against contractual scope, design requirements, budgeted hours, quality standards, and schedule. The role manages a multidisciplinary discipline team of engineers and designers, coordinates with project functions and external agencies, and serves as a senior technical representative for clients, partners, subcontractors and vendors. The position supports detailed FEED and medium-sized EPC projects, and may lead FEED or small EPC projects in energy transition applications.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Execution & Technical Leadership

• Establish the discipline QHSE plan, objectives, team roles, execution and surveillance plans, and work processes in accordance with project objectives and Technip Energies procedures.
• Lead execution and issuance of CSA deliverables in accordance with project schedule, quality standards, contractual requirements and execution plans.
• Review, check and approve discipline engineering deliverables and supervise internal and externally subcontracted engineering activities.
• Consolidate discipline input and output data and maintain coordination across engineering interfaces.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities and propose optimized technical and economic solutions in collaboration with other disciplines and the Project Engineering Manager.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Process/HSE, Procurement, Construction, Subcontracting, Commissioning and project support functions.
• Represent Technip Energies on discipline technical matters with clients, partners, subcontractors, vendors and third parties.

Project Controls & Delivery

• Establish the discipline team organization and mobilization plan in line with approved budget and workfront requirements, coordinating with the department head.
• Manage discipline schedules and progress using JANUS and monitor key performance indicators.
• Control engineering man-hour budgets and identify internal change requests (eICR) as appropriate.
• Monitor and control material quantities against price-sheet budgets, recommend mitigation actions, and ensure issuance of the discipline material take-off (MTO) report.
• Provide discipline progress and performance reporting to the Discipline Department Manager and project management.
• Support digital initiatives, project closeout activities and capture of lessons learned.

Leadership & Management

• Supervise and manage a medium-sized discipline team, including group leaders, specialist engineers, designers and draftspersons.
• Ensure team members understand assignments and comply with the discipline quality, health, safety and environmental plan, objectives and work processes.
• Coordinate multicenter project execution when applicable.
• Escalate engineering strategy, contractual, cost or schedule matters requiring arbitration to the Project Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Engineering degree in a relevant discipline.
• At least twenty (20) years of experience in design and execution of conventional energy or energy-transition projects, including discipline-lead responsibilities.
• Broad familiarity with technical aspects of civil, structural and architectural engineering and demonstrated experience across most areas of the discipline.
• Construction-site experience.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Experience leading engineering teams and coordinating project execution interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer registration in Texas and/or Louisiana, or ability to obtain registration within four (4) months of hire.
• Proficiency in structural engineering applications including Foundation 3D, Mat3D, Shaft3D, DS Anchor, STAAD.Pro, Dyna6, IDEA StatiCa and RAM Connection.
• Experience with multicenter engineering execution and detailed FEED or EPC delivery.

Role Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Civil, structural and architectural discipline leadership and design review.
• CSA engineering deliverables, material take-offs, quantity control and technical optimization.
• Discipline QHSE planning, surveillance, engineering work processes and quality assurance.
• Engineering schedule and man-hour control, change management, KPI tracking and progress reporting.
• Cross-disciplinary coordination, vendor and subcontractor technical interfaces, and site construction support.
• Structural analysis and connection design software.

Additional Information

Work Location: Houston, Texas. Project assignments may involve multicenter execution and construction-site coordination.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.