Pipeline Engineer

Overview

As a Pipeline Civil Engineer, you will deliver technical engineering across the full lifecycle of major pipelines, collaborating with clients and multidisciplinary teams. You’ll design buried pipelines, assess rehab options, and apply trenchless technologies to extend asset life. You’ll produce high-level technical reports and contribute to proposals, while advancing research with industry bodies. This role supports resilient water networks and sustainable infrastructure, offering opportunity to shape high-profile projects in the UK and internationally.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• bonus schemes
• enhanced pension plan
• private medical insurance
• group income protection & life assurance
• hybrid/flexible working

Responsibilities

• contribute to technical deliverables across lifecycle of major pipeline projects
• select materials and design buried pipelines, including thrust restraint
• apply trenchless technologies and assess rehabilitation options
• perform condition and failure assessments to extend asset life
• use advanced pipeline analysis tools and piping software
• prepare proposals and high-level technical reports
• drive research initiatives with industry bodies (e.g., UKWIR, CIRIA)
• engage with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver solutions

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in Civil Engineering; Chartered or Incorporated status or actively pursuing registration with ICE/CIWEM or equivalent
• Proven experience in structural design of buried pipelines (BS EN 1295-1:2019) and thrust restraint design (CIRIA C816/Report 128)
• Experience with trunk main design and thermoplastic/metallic pipe materials
• Familiarity with pipeline rehabilitation, trenchless design principles, failure assessments, or CAESAR II
• Strong proposal and report-writing skills; ability to liaise with multidisciplinary stakeholders
• excellent communication and collaboration
• interpersonal confidence in stakeholder engagements
• analytical and creative problem-solving approach
• structural design of buried pipelines
• thrust restraint design
• trenchless technologies

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