North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer

Posting Date: 13 Feb 2026

City: Lisle

Location:

Lisle, IL, US, 60532 Sunrise, Fl, US, 33323 Houston, TX, US, 77070

Contract Type: Fixed-Term

Division: Plant Engineering

Level of experience: Senior

RINA is currently recruiting for a North America Pipeline Design Senior Engineer to join its office within the Plant Engineering Division.

Mission

The Senior Pipeline Engineer leads technical engineering activities for pipeline design, including design appraisal and certification of new and existing pipelines. This role ensures compliance with project requirements, manages project interfaces, and supervises information flow while maintaining and developing technical skills, expertise, knowledge, procedures, and tools for proposals and project execution. The Senior Engineer also focuses on capitalizing on project experience to improve and harmonize work methodologies.

Key Accountabilities

Pipeline Design, Engineering Studies and Analyses:
- Coordinate all activities related to pipeline design, including existing and new projects.
- Manage all internal and external project interfaces to ensure timely provision of necessary input and information to meet project execution schedules.
- Lead the engineering team in developing strategies for system configuration tasks and component design, ensuring progress and satisfactory task completion within project constraints.
Construction Support:
- Oversee and execute all technical activities within the discipline.
- Provide technical support and direction to solve engineering issues.
- Identify project and contract hot spots, criticalities, and activity priorities.
- Optimize technical engineering processes to achieve reduced time and costs.
Resource Management:
- Coordinate resources assigned to the discipline.
- Supervise and coordinate all engineering, design, and drafting activities.
- Ensure the proper management of interfaces with other disciplines and construction/installation activities, driving the team toward optimized cost-effective solutions.
Project Oversight:
- Control project schedules and ensure adherence to timelines.
- Supervise and coordinate the review and independent analysis of pipelines during third-party engineering activities.
- Oversee requisitioning and technical bid evaluations.
Development and Reporting:
- Develop personnel skills and flexibility through work assignments, responsibilities, seminars, and courses.
- Ensure the capitalization of project experience to improve work methodologies.
- Report to the Pipeline Principal Engineer.
Innovation and Optimization:
- Explore new technologies and methodologies to optimize pipeline design and construction processes
Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure that pipeline design comply with local,state and federal regulations, as well as industry standards and codes.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

Qualifications

- Extensive experience (8+ years) in pipeline engineering, with a strong background in design and analysis.
- Proven track record of managing engineering teams and projects.
- Proficiency in software tools for structural design and installation analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Expertise in project scheduling, resource management, and cost optimization.
- Excellent communication skills for effective interaction with clients, project teams, and subcontractors.
- Leadership abilities to guide and motivate engineering teams.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent is preferred.
- Commitment to ongoing professional development and learning.

Competencies

WORKPLACE DYNAMICS - Resourcefulness in shaping progress and working efficiently.
FORESIGHT & INSIGHT - Context awareness adopting a systemic perspective and informed decision making.
PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT - Ownership for life, work and results, striving to grow professionally and personally.
INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE - Skills and strategies we use to interact effectively with others.
DOMAIN & BUSINESS ACUMEN - Applying a scientific approach and critical thinking in operations and solution development within area of expertise.

RINA is a multinational company providing a wide range of services in the energy, marine, certification, infrastructure & mobility, industry, research & development sectors. Our business model covers the full process of project development, from concept to completion.

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