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Job Overview:

The Pipeline Engineer applies existing knowledge and experience in the Pipeline (Eng) discipline to support routine assignments. They will use best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve products or services in the Pipeline (Eng) discipline.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Apply existing knowledge and experience in the pipeline discipline to support routine assignments

• Use best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve products or services in the pipeline discipline

• Apply conceptual knowledge of pipeline and with a moderate level of guidance and direction from colleagues and leadership, solving a range of straightforward pipeline problems

• Analyze possible solutions using standard procedures, as well as building knowledge of the company, processes, and customers

• Understand key business drivers and apply this knowledge to solve problems in straightforward situations through analysis of possible solutions using technical experience, judgment, and precedents

• Gain familiarity with the project scope of work, specifications, schedule, and all inter-discipline requirements, including identifying concerns as early as practicable

• Recognize changes to scope and notify the Discipline Lead Engineer

• Interface with all disciplines to develop clash-free designs

• Interface with other departments to obtain input for Discipline designs and drawings

• Document substantive communications (communications that result in significant decisions or assignment of actions) and forward copies to Discipline Lead Engineer and Discipline Manager

• Provide required bid inputs as directed

• Prepare sketches of detailed design to guide Designers

• Assist procurement personnel in procuring discipline equipment, materials, and services Procurement assistance includes preparing requisitions, evaluating technical quotations, preparing queries, compiling

• Bid tabulations and recommendations, preparing purchase requisitions, and coordinating with Procurement to expedite vendor documents, as directed by the Discipline Lead Engineer

• Review MTOs for requisitions

• Assist in updating weight report based on receipt of vendor information

• Check drawings

• Check engineering performed by others within the Discipline

• Review vendor and subcontractor submittals, checking for compliance with project specifications and providing comments as necessary

• Perform design verification through single discipline checks and assist with inter-discipline checks (IDC)

• Keep the Lead Engineer apprised of all activities, progress, and concerns

• Check final subcontractor and vendor data manuals to ensure that all requested data has been received and approved

• Capture lessons learned and entered them into the database system

• Capture Knowledge Objects and enter them into the database system

• Develop an awareness of costs related to own work and of the discipline

• Prepare the following for pipelines and their components

• Material specifications and datasheets

• Fabrication specifications

• Installation specifications

• Pipeline reports and installation manuals

• Perform the following designs, analyses, and evaluations for pipelines and their components:

• Wall thickness designs

• On-bottom stability analyses

• Pipeline cathodic protection designs

• Free-span analyses

• Pipeline expansion and rigid riser stress analyses using finite element analysis (FEA) tools

• Route selection designs

• Bottom roughness evaluations

• Crossing support designs

• Dropped object protection structure designs

• Clamp designs

• Subsea structure designs

• Shore approach designs

• Onshore pipeline designs

• Pipeline local and global buckling mitigation designs

• Pipeline seismic analyses

• Installation analyses

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• 5-6 years of experience in oil and gas with a major contractor or consultant predominantly performing detail design, with minimum 3 years of experience in core offshore pipeline design

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical/Civil Engineering

• Good Knowledge of offshore pipeline design, industry standards, materials and conversant with subsea pipeline design Software

• Knowledge of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) using ABAQUS/ANSYS will be an added advantage

• Experience for FEED and EPCI project related to offshore projects is must. Working experience for ADNOC projects is an added advantage

• Familiar with the content and application of standards, codes, and guidelines as applicable

• Knowledge of many basic design techniques and analysis methods

• Eager to learn

• Working knowledge of English, both oral and written

• HSE, TQM, and cost-conscious

• Show flexibility and ensure proper hand-over with regards to:

• The reassignment to other departments, construction sites, and fabrication yards

• The replacement of colleagues during illness and holidays

• The provision of assistance to other colleagues with heavy workloads (also other projects) when possible/desirable

• The managing/learning of future current working methods and software applications

• Is familiar with the use of codes and standards

Preferred Qualifications and Education:

• Master’s Degree is Preferred

• Preferably Registered Engineer in Training (ElT) or member of a professional engineering society as applicable

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