Principal Pipeline Engineer

Job summary

Provide pipeline engineering expertise and technical leadership for the HA & HB-Buko projects, delivering 350-450 MMscf/d of gas and 25-30 kb/d of oil/condensate from 2029. Manage pipeline engineering activities across all project phases, ensuring design integrity, operational reliability, safe execution, and successful project delivery.

Min Qualification: Degree Experience Level: Senior level Experience Length: 10 years Language Requirement: English Working Hours: Full Time - 8 to 5 Applicant Location: Port Harcourt & Rivers State, Nigeria

Job descriptions & requirements

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage all pipeline engineering activities and deliverables across project design, construction, commissioning, operation, and maintenance phases.
• Provide subject matter expertise in subsea pipeline engineering, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Deliver and review key engineering outputs, including design calculations, technical reports, specifications, procedures, analyses, and bid evaluations.
• Perform detailed pipeline design and analysis, including wall thickness selection, line sizing, integrity assessments, thermo-mechanical analysis, route optimization, crossings, and installation engineering.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering interfaces and ensure successful project execution within approved cost, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Support procurement, contractor selection, and vendor management activities, including preparation of specifications and technical evaluations.
• Provide technical support during pre-commissioning, commissioning, testing, flooding, pigging, gauging, and risk mitigation activities.
• Participate in project assurance and safety reviews, including HAZID, HAZOP, and the implementation of inherently safe designs that promote a zero-incident culture.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop pipeline engineers and junior staff while ensuring quality assurance of FEED and detailed design deliverables.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, resolve technical challenges, drive continuous improvement, and identify opportunities for technology adoption and operational optimization.

Requirements:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• NSE and COREN membership.
• Experience with offshore platforms, FPSOs, or onshore terminals is desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience within the oil and gas industry.

Skills & Competencies:

• Knowledge of HSSE framework and International engineering standards, best practices, and systems.
• A good understanding of practices, standards and technologies relating to Oil and Gas facilities.
• Strong team, personal, and people management skills, committed to learning and continuous improvement
• Considerable customer focus, interpersonal skills and commercial astuteness are required together with initiative, expertise and energy to identify and exploit business opportunities.
• Good communication skills are essential.
• Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision-making, personal relations and communication skills are paramount for success. Intercultural awareness and team integration skills are required.
• Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision.