Principal Pipeline Engineer at Renaissance Africa Energy Company Limited

Job Purpose 

To provide pipeline Engineering expertise and support the delivery of HA & HB-Buko projects.  

The HA & HB-Buko projects aim to provide circa 350-450 MMscf/d of gas to the NLNG Train-7 from 2029+, as well as 25-30 kb/d of oil and condensate for export. The projects’ projected gas supply constitutes circa 25% of the overall supply to the NLNG Train-7. The HA project completed FEED in Apr-25 and is now completing the tendering phase of the project contracts.  While the HB-Buko project has initiated FEED in Q2-26. Current plan is for a joint HA/HB-Buko FID by end of Q1-27. Given the strategic importance of both projects to the NLNG Train 7, and to derisk the project execution schedule to protect the First Gas Date, a full integration and optimization of HA & HB-Buko has been endorsed by the JV partners to improve the business case and to accelerate further optimizations of the projects. 

The position involves provision of technical input & assurance throughout the project lifecycle including Conceptual, FEED, Detailed Design, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning stages, to safeguard design, technical and operational integrity. Managing all pipeline engineering activities and deliverables for HA & HB-Buko projects. 

Responsibilities

• Design activities concentrate on unique topics (remotely guided by procedures or scarce precedents). 
• Translates the guidelines and standards into practice and solves common technical challenges and provides technical recommendations which have a perceptible impact on local business performance; actively drives the identification, development and implementation of new technologies and opportunities to optimize field operations. 
• Contributes to the training and guidance of other professionals in the field. May represent the Company externally as a subject matter expert with suppliers, customers, and external agencies. 
• Integrates across engineering disciplines to achieve delivery. 
• May have SME responsibilities for regional/global Functional community. 
• Leads discipline team/tasks within design, construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities/plant, interfacing with stakeholders and managing contractors. 
• Provide specialist skills, integrity, and knowledge in key areas of subsea pipeline engineering, including design codes, legislative requirements, and current good engineering practice. 
• Undertake responsibility for production of deliverables, which may include engineering support to the drafting office, design calculations, procedures, analyses, progress reports, bid evaluations, study reports and various third-party submissions. 
• Undertake responsibility for delivery of full pipeline design scopes on projects through management of junior engineers with minimal supervision. 
• Provide pipeline analysis support for projects. 
• Provide technical guidance to designers and less experienced engineers from multidisciplinary team. 
• Provide detailed design and analysis of rigid pipeline systems in accordance with acknowledged industry codes, standards and design guides, and scopes of work. 
• Provide mechanical line sizing, integrity calculations, thermo-mechanical analysis for offshore pipelines. 
• Manage the performance of detailed pipeline engineering activities including: 
• Wall thickness selection 
  • On-bottom stability analysis 
  • Allowable free-span analysis 
  • Thermal expansion analysis 
  • Bottom roughness analysis 
  • Thermo-mechanical design (low cycle fatigue analysis, lateral buckling and walking analysis) 
  • Rigid spool and jumper design 
  • Pipeline route selection / optimization. 
  • Pipeline crossing design. 
  • Installation analysis 
• Production and checking of design documentation including feasibility reports, detailed design reports, equipment specifications etc. 
• Provide support for preliminary pipeline routing assessments considering all interfaces, functional requirements, manmade and geo hazards using results from geotechnical and geophysical (G&G) survey. 
• Coordinate pipeline engineering support to the execution of multidiscipline projects in line with defined budget and schedule. 
• Liaise with associated subsea related disciplines and understand the interfaces within a project. 
• Provide pipeline engineering assistance during occasional periods of offshore or site works. 
• Supervise Pipeline Engineers and support in Quality Assurance/Quality Control of FEED and detailed design deliverables. 
• Train / mentor junior and graduate engineers. 
• Actively participate in relevant training to pursue continuing professional development. 
• Provide input to project cost and schedule estimating. 
• Assist with the development of the project specifications and purchase requisitions, as well providing support to bidding and subcontractor selection processes. 
• Assist with development of pre-commissioning and commissioning procedures and activities including, testing, flooding, pigging, gauging, assessing, and mitigating risks, coordinating with other facility disciplines, and implementing process safety in work execution. 
• Participate in Project reviews, HAZID, HAZOP and others. 
• Promote zero accident, zero incident culture through inherently safe design meeting all regulatory requirements, and applicable industry codes and standards. 
• Manages the relation with multiple (groups of) internal and external stakeholders on tactical/strategic level and manages opposite interests. Scale and severity of consequences if things go wrong are moderate, requiring careful stakeholder management from an impact and reputation perspective. 

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. 
• Experience with offshore platforms, FPSOs, or onshore terminals is desirable. 
• Minimum of 14 years’ experience within the oil and gas industry
• 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 skill is essential. 
• Ability to function effectively in a multi-ethnic, multi-disciplinary environment. 
• Good leadership, coaching, negotiating, decision making, personal relations and communications skills are paramount for success. Inter-cultural awareness, team integration abilities are a requirement.  
• Personal effectiveness and ability to work and deliver with minimal supervision.