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Lead Subsea Pipeline Engineer

Location

Brentford, Greater London, South East, England

Salary

Competitive

Contract Type

Contract

Work Type

Full Time

Posted on

10 Apr 2026

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:
Position Summary:

  • 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

 

Typical Responsibilities:

  • 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 authorizes work done by direct reports
  • Apply 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.
  • Ability to maintain full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating scopes within several projects; bring 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 setup, instituting work processes, monitoring a team, producing deliverables, and project closeout.
  • Participates in project execution strategy and planning knowing the discipline’s Cost, Time, and Resource requirements to execute the scope.
  • nterfaces 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
  • An understanding of the technical issues related to high pressure, high temperature flowlines and sour service pipelines
  • Familiar in 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 such 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

 

About NRL

The NRL Group connect global companies with the right people to bring engineering projects to life. Supporting contracting companies with energy transition plans and working with our clients to create a cleaner, greener future.
 
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Kate Backshall

Kate Backshall

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