Qualification & Recruitment

The pipeline industry, a critical component of global energy infrastructure, faces pressing workforce challenges yet remains underexplored compared to oil, gas, and renewable sectors. While many professionals consider career changes, most remain within the sector, increasingly transitioning toward renewables. Career progression is now shaped by...

Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions, especially in technically oriented industries such as the pipeline industry. Structural barriers, unconscious biases, and limited networking opportunities hinder their advancement. A promising approach to promoting women's careers is mentoring by male leaders, as they can integrate...

“For the first time in the history of mankind, there are four generations in the workforce. There are 35 million Traditionalists (Silent Gen) and 84 million Baby Boomers, the largest number of workers, which began to retire in 2010-11. There are 68 million Generation Xers and 79 million Generation Yers (Millennials as they are better known). There...

The transfer of business-critical knowledge from key technical staff to the next generation workforce is of significant concern to the energy pipeline industry. For T.D. Williamson (TDW), the issue is nothing new. As a global pipeline solutions provider with a history reaching back nearly a century, the company implements formal knowledge transfer...

The paper deals with Life Long Learning (Vocational Education and Training (VET) system) by providing adaptive learning resources for work-based learning in the water industry. The emphasis is on the presentation of concepts, methodology and media examples. The necessity to develop such a concept is directly connected to the huge qualification...

Companies that operate technical systems, e.g. the German gas transmission system operator ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH, must ensure operational safety at all times, that all associated procedures and processes comply with the applicable laws and regulations, and that the company is also prepared to react in case of emergencies. Haphazard trial and...

All professional engineers make a commitment to maintain and enhance their competence by undertaking ‘Continuing Professional Development (CPD)’. CPD is the process of managing, and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that a member of staff gains, both formally and informally. It is not simply training (learning how to do something...

Studies indicate that we in the international pipeline industry are heading for a shortage of well-trained engineers and scientists. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that in recent years there have been fewer and fewer young people starting engineering or scientific studies, and on the other hand to the fact that the scope of tasks has...