Principal Pipelines Engineer

Job Description

The NEPx Principal Pipeline Engineer is responsible for leading and assuring pipeline engineering across the Humber Offshore Pipeline revalidation and CS006/CS007 offshore storage developments.

Acting as the technical authority for offshore pipelines, flowlines and landfall scope, the role provides technical oversight and assurance of contractor deliverables and leads critical engineering decisions covering routing, crossings, materials selection, integrity and constructability.

The role manages pipeline-related risks, opportunities and interfaces across offshore, landfall and onshore scopes, provides specialist pipeline input to ESIA and DCO regulatory submissions, and ensures compliance with applicable standards and regulatory requirements while incorporating lessons learned from NEP Phase 1.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pipeline engineering activities across the Humber Offshore Pipeline revalidation and CS006/CS007 offshore storage developments.
• Act as the technical authority for offshore pipelines, flowlines and landfall scope for NEPx.
• Provide technical oversight and assurance of contractor deliverables (Genesis / Arup).
• Lead key technical decisions relating to routing, crossings, materials selection, integrity and constructability.
• Manage pipeline-related risks, opportunities and interfaces across offshore, landfall and onshore scopes.
• Manage technical interfaces between offshore pipelines, offshore facilities, wells/subsea systems, landfall and onshore facilities, ensuring battery limits, design requirements and responsibilities are clearly defined and interface issues are closed out.
• Provide pipeline engineering input to ESIA and DCO regulatory submissions.
• Ensure alignment with applicable standards, regulatory requirements and lessons learned from NEP Phase 1.
• Engage with project stakeholders and other engineering disciplines, communicating pipeline constraints, decisions andrequirements and providing clear technical recommendations to project and engineering management

Qualifications

• Significant experience in offshore pipeline engineering, ideally across concept/select, FEED and project execution phases.
• Demonstrable experience of pipeline design assurance and contractor technical oversight.
• Experience of pipeline route development, landfalls, crossings, installation and constructability
• Strong technical leadership and engineering judgement, with the confidence to make and clearly communicate technically robust recommendations where information may be incomplete or evolving.

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 people in around 50 countries, Wood supports clients across the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara - a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. www.woodgroup.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.