DCS Engineer

Job description / Role

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are looking for DCS Engineer to join Hawiyah Gas Plant Department.

HGP was brought on stream in September 2001 as the first gas plant in Saudi Aramco that processed only non-associated gas. HGP current processing capacity is 2.5 BSCFD of feed gas and 240 MBD of Hydrocarbon condensate. HGP receives sour and sweet feed gas through two gas manifolds, Hawiyah and Haradh that have more than 200 wells connected to them from Hawiyah.

We are seeking for control system and instrumentation to work within HGP control system and instrumentation group. The engineer will work with engineering disciplines to enhance and resolve process control and instrumentation activities. Additionally, the engineer is expected to participate in the organization initiatives including but not limited to safety program, innovation programs, operation excellence, knowledge sharing, self-development and others programs as required.

The engineer should have a full knowledge involved with advanced Gas Processing control and adequate technical skills to provide engineering analysis, design and control of assigned projects. The Engineer shall check the system performance to ensure it is running up to its design and implement any modification or system enhancement

Key Responsibilities

You will be expected be able to perform the following:
- Provide control system and instrumentation related technical support in Process control system activities, troubleshooting and recommend corrective actions to ensure having safely and reliably operate the facilities.
- Design, commission, test, configure, enhance and resolve Process control and instrumentation activities.
- Ensure security compliance of Process control and instrumentation activities. Additionally, analyzing relevant process data various control system for any process upsets investigation.
- Participate in any initiatives and studies includes but not limited to HAZOP, SIL Study, RCA analysis, innovation programs, operation excellence, knowledge sharing, self-development and others programs as required.
- Work with various vendors as needed to install, upgrade, update or implement new technologies for plant control and automation systems and instrumentation.
- Develop function and design specification for control system and instrumentation
- Review and validate vendors design documentations at all stage of assigned projects.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you should have a BS in related engineering discipline to control system and instrumentation in relevant gas processing operation facilities in Oil/Gas Industry with (15) years of experience. You should have a recent experience with DCS and ESD (Yokogawa CentumVP / ProSafe-RS), Bentley Nevada VMS, compressor Controller (CCS), Turbine Control System (TCS) and control system security. You should have excellent experience and knowledge in designing and updating/upgrading control system and strong knowledge of relevant codes and standards.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.