Senior Pipeline Integrity Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Pipeline Integrity Engineer

Type: Direct Hire

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Salary: $155K–$180K DOE

About the Role

This role leads independent technical review of inline inspection (ILI) data for a gas transmission and distribution Integrity Management Program based in Los Angeles. We are partnered with a pipeline engineering services firm supporting the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility to recruit a Senior Pipeline Integrity Engineer for its assessment team.

The Senior Pipeline Integrity Engineer leads complex ILI reviews end to end: validating vendor assumptions, feature classifications, and sizing results, and resolving interpretation disputes with ILI vendors. This is a technical-lead role rather than a supervisory one, reporting to the Assessment Team Manager. It suits an engineer who can defend a conclusion against a vendor, an auditor, and 49 CFR Part 192.

Key Responsibilities

Inline Inspection Review and Anomaly Evaluation

• Lead independent technical review of ILI vendor reports, data packages, feature classifications, and sizing results.

• Evaluate high-consequence anomalies, interacting threats, tool limitations, and false-positive or false-negative conditions.

• Integrate ILI results with prior inspections, field verification, non-destructive examination (NDE), material records, GIS, and cathodic protection data.

Technical Leadership and Peer Review

• Resolve data-quality and interpretation disputes with ILI vendors, documenting the basis for acceptance or rejection.

• Provide peer review and guidance to less experienced engineers, and serve as an integrity subject-matter resource.

• Develop analytical methods, review criteria, and quality controls for the team.

Program Documentation and Communication

• Document defensible assessment conclusions, anomaly-response recommendations, and remediation inputs.

• Present findings, risks, and recommended actions to program leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Materials, or Electrical Engineering.

• Seven or more years of pipeline integrity engineering experience, including hands-on gas utility inline inspection (ILI) data analysis.

• Demonstrated technical-lead scope: independently leading complex assessments and resolving interpretation disputes with ILI vendors.

• Direct Assessment (DA) and pressure testing experience on gas transmission or distribution assets.

• Working proficiency with Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) cathodic protection curricula (CP1, CP2, CP3) and API 579.

• Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship, now or in the future.

• Ability to work onsite in the Los Angeles area four days per week. Relocation required if not a commutable distance from Los Angeles.

Preferred

• Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.

• Deep experience with one or more ILI technologies, vendor platforms, or validation methodologies.

• Familiarity with 49 CFR Part 192, PHMSA requirements, ASME B31.8S, and API 1163.

Compensation & Employment

Employment Type: The selected candidate will be hired as a full-time employee directly with our client and placed on assignment at the Los Angeles worksite.

Openings: Multiple positions are available on this program.

Compensation: $155K–$180K annually, DOE.

Work Model: Onsite four days per week with one remote day at either the Chatsworth or Pico Rivera office, candidate’s choice. A fifth onsite day may be required.

Engagement Length: Initial assignment runs approximately two years, with a strong likelihood of extension.

Travel: Limited local travel to field and project locations. Valid driver’s license required.

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision insurance; retirement plan; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; and professional development support.

Pre-Employment: Offer is contingent on a background check and drug screening.

Innovation Consulting LLC is an equal opportunity employer and recruiter. We review candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.