Pipeline Design Senior Engineer

Posting Date: 30 Sept 2026

City: Houston

Location: Houston, TX, US, 77070

Contract Type: Permanent

Division: Plant Engineering

Level of experience: Senior

RINA is a global knowledge company where expertise travels across borders, disciplines, and industries. Every day, we collaborate on solving complex challenges that no single field could tackle alone. With a presence in more than 70 countries and 160 years of heritage, we turn individual know-how into collective progress.

We are currently recruiting for a Pipeline Design Senior Engineer to join our office in Houston, TX within the Plant Engineering Division.

Mission

The Senior Piping Engineer leads piping design projects for petroleum, natural gas, power, industrial, and related facilities. This role performs and oversees engineering and CAD design work to ensure compliance with client and industry specifications. The engineer also assigns work, trains and mentors team members, and manages subconsultant design activities.

Key Accountabilities

Pipeline Design, Engineering Studies and Analyses:

• Conduct engineering and oversee planning and design of hydrocarbon, natural gas, compressed air, steam, and related facilities.

• Understand and apply client and industry engineering specifications to 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.

• Interact with client’s management and engineering department to facilitate project efforts.

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.

• Participate in new business development activities – providing scope descriptions and hours estimates for proposals and participating in client meetings and presentations.

• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines and third-party consultants.

• Develop and mentor technical staff.

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 Mechanical Engineering or Civil Engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field of engineering study.

• 10+ years of experience in detailed facility and piping design for Oil & Gas facilities.

• Professional Engineer Licensure in US state is required. Texas PE is preferred.

• Strong understanding of engineering and construction practices for refined products facilities.

• Thorough understanding of Piping Codes including B31.1, B31.3, B31.4, and B31.8.

• In-depth knowledge of technical specifications for bidding documents.

• Familiarity with resource management and scheduling.

• Working knowledge of computer-aided design software and other PC software packages typically associated with engineering including AutoCAD required.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

• Liquid Hydraulics analysis experience preferred.

• CAESAR II Pipe Stress analysis experience preferred.

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.

At RINA, your growth drives our innovation. We bring together engineers, inspectors, digital minds and specialists from more than 100 nationalities, creating an environment where diverse perspectives sharpen how we think, collaborate and deliver.

Flexibility and respect drive how we work. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels valued, empowered to develop their potential, and safe from discrimination or harassment of any kind. It is the policy of RINA to provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religion, gender (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disabilities, marital status, sexual orientation, genetics, military status, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans (veterans who served during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a badge has been authorized), and Armed Forces service medal veteran, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. We are strongly committed to this policy and believe in the concept and spirit of the law.

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Nearest Major Market: Houston