Competency Assessment and Certification
Proving your competence is vital to successfully advancing your career, whether you are new to pipeline engineering or climbing the corporate ladder. But what is competence, and how do you prove it? Competence is a combination of the ability to perform a task, understand and explain that task, the type, years, and supervision spent acquiring that knowledge, and the practices related to the job. Simply put, competence is a measure of skill, knowledge, experience, and behavior.
Discover how we keep you ahead of the curve by supporting you in assessing, demonstrating, and showcasing your pipeline competency.
Step 1: Assess your competence
By means of a self-assessment, you can evaluate your skills based on the predefined Competency Standards Manual developed in collaboration with the Qualification Panel for the Pipeline Industry (QPPI).
The Competency Standards lists and defines over forty pipeline integrity competencies at awareness, foundation, practitioner and expert level. Following your self-assessment, you can take your professional development to the next level with the Competence Club's online training courses, which have been developed based upon the predefined standards.
For pipeline integrity management teams, our baseline assessment provides a holistic insight into your teams level of competence inline with your objectives. The assessment is led by our subject matter experts and includes:
- A review of your organizational structure, including an evaluation of the current roles and responsibilities.
- An analysis of your organizations' systems.
- Competency-based interviews with your workforce to assess and evaluate your team's knowledge in relation to our Competency Standards Manual.
Following the detailed appraisal of your team, we provide a competence report with recommendations and suggested training development programs to address identified skill gaps.
Step 2: Prove your competence
In the pipeline industry, it is crucial for operators and contractors to have personnel who possess a suitable level of competence in education, training, knowledge, and experience. Certification is a way to demonstrate to employers and peers that you are competent and qualified to perform the tasks required by the Competency Standards Manual.
We believe that ensuring the proper authority and autonomy for the certification body is of utmost importance to the credibility and integrity of the certification program. That is why we have commissioned the Qualification Panel for the Pipeline Industry (QPPI), an independent panel of qualified subject matter experts (SMEs), to develop all elements of the certification scheme. The QPPI certification board is responsible for ensuring the credentials of the Pipeline Integrity Engineer Certification Scheme meet the highest standards of ethical and professional practice for the industry.
Our certification program has the same objective as in the USA standard ASME B31Q*: "… to minimize the impact on safety and integrity of the pipeline due to human error that may result from an individual’s lack of knowledge, skills, or abilities during the performance of certain activities."
Achieving a certification will signify that you will have the knowledge and understanding of best practices in pipeline integrity, and understand the effects and consequences of their actions, but will still require some supervision from a more qualified individual. This level of certification is defined as ‘foundation’ (F).
Our Pipeline Personnel Certifications offer eight different competencies to choose from, allowing you to become an indispensable member of the industry. And if you complete all eight competency examinations, you'll have the opportunity to apply for the prestigious title of Certified Pipeline Integrity Engineer.
These programs were designed for individuals working in pipeline integrity who either possess a degree from a recognized or accredited university, have at least four years of relevant work experience within the pipeline integrity field, hold an engineering degree from a recognized or accredited university, or have a professional engineering qualification such as PEng or CEng.
To determine your eligibility for our certifications, you can download our Candidate Handbook:
Step 3: Become certified
Follow our simple 5-step-process to become certified:
Step 1: Choose your certification and review the eligibility requirements
Pick the certification you would like to pursue and review the Pipeline Integrity Engineer Certification Candidate Handbook for all the policies and procedures you’ll need to follow to apply, study, and sit for each exam. It will provide you with a comprehensive explanation of the application process, eligibility requirements, fees, examination content and more.
Step 2: Complete and submit your application
Download and complete the application and prepare your eligibility evidence. Once completed, pay your non-refundable application fee and email the completed application and evidence to our team on certifications@rosen-group.com.
Step 3: Schedule and study for the exam
Once your application has been accepted by our Certification team, you will be required to pay the exam entrance fee and organize your exam date. For support on studying for the exam, take a look at our ‘Preparing For Exam Day’ and the ‘Exam Blueprint’ sections within the Handbook to find out what you need to do to and study in preparation.
Step 4: Take the examination
Refer to ‘On Exam Day’ and the Protocol Document for Remote Invigilated Exams sections within the Pipeline Integrity Engineer Certification Candidate Handbook to learn what you can expect on exam day.
Step 5: Prove your competence with your ROSEN certificate
If you successfully pass the competency exams will be mailed a certificate and digital copy valid for five years, plus your name can be included in certificants registry.
Need help?
Our certification team is on hand to support you from choosing the competency for you, to applying and taking the certification. Speak to our experts today.
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