pipeline engineer

Code 2142.1.7

Pipeline engineers design and develop the engineering aspects for the construction of pipeline infrastructures in various kinds of sites (e.g. inland, maritime). They envision and create the specifications for pumping systems and for the general transport of goods through pipelines.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • technical drawings
  • mechanical engineering
  • isometric perspective
  • engineering principles
  • pipeline coating properties
  • types of pipelines
  • metal bending techniques

Skills and competences

  • apply health and safety standards
  • create designs for pipeline engineering
  • design pipelines with different coating solutions
  • ensure regulatory compliance in pipeline infrastructures
  • integrate measures in architectural designs
  • perform water analysis
  • measure parts of manufactured products
  • perform pipeline routing studies
  • consider the impact of material characteristics on pipeline flows

Transversal competences

  • geometry
  • oversee wetlands in project development
  • use measurement instruments

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences