Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Company: NRL
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Location: Brentford
Job Description:

Job Title: Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Location: Brentford / London

Overview

Currently recruiting for a Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer for a 12 month contract duration.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • Enables data gathering and preparation of engineering studies, analysis, calculations, and helps/leads the creation of the final documentation.
  • Assists the Pipelines and Subsea Manager in authorizing work, resource planning, obtaining customer approval, and in executing the relevant scopes.
  • Ensures 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 authorises work done by direct reports.
  • Applies extensive knowledge in the application of advanced theories in asset elements, including pipelines and structures.
  • Seeks input from knowledgeable sources, participates in constructability, operability, and maintainability reviews, and ensures that requirements are incorporated into engineering design.
  • Keeps 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.
  • Presents to a larger audience on advanced engineering findings relating them to projects being executed.
  • Has full technical responsibility for interpreting, organising, executing, and coordinating scopes within several projects, bringing in lessons‑learnt from the several scopes.
  • Applies extensive experience over broad areas to ensure technical quality of work and efficiency of approach.
  • Manages project team(s) in unusual settings or in demanding situations.
  • Well‑versed in discipline set‑up, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project close‑out.
  • Participates 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.

Skills & 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.
  • Understanding of the technical issues related to high‑pressure, high‑temperature flowlines and sour‑service pipelines.
  • Familiar with 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 a 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.

Qualifications

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

We welcome applications from every walk of life and are committed to diversity within the industries we support, as a certified Inclusive Recruiter and Armed Forces friendly employer.

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Posted: June 3rd, 2026