Chemicals Specialist

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.

Job Overview
As a recognized company expert in the chemical business, IK Liquids to Chemicals is building refining and petrochemical facilities across the kingdom. The integration and optimization specialist primary role is to ensure good integration across the various LTC projects and individual units with a focus on integration and optimization opportunities to improve the project economics.

Duties and Responsibilities
- Improving LTC program projects economics
- Addressing opportunities aspects relating to integrating the hydrocarbons which are transferred between a refinery and a petrochemicals facility. This would be at different levels including; within same complex and/or with other neighboring facilities.
- Optimize Refinery Process Flow & Fuels Blending
- Optimize Steam Cracking Feed Selection, Process Flow and Configuration
- Optimize Aromatics Feed, Products& Recovery
- Indicate process Interactions at the Refinery/Chemical Plants Interface
- Conduct Techno-Economic Evaluations
- Participate in hazard operability (HAZOP) and safety integrity level (SIL) studies as required

Requirements

Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related. An advanced degree is preferred.
- At least fifteen years of experience in refining and petrochemicals process units, including at least five years in integration and optimization.

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

We’re a leading producer of the energy and chemicals that drive global commerce and enhance the daily lives of people around the globe by continuing delivering an uninterrupted supply of energy to the world.

Our resilience and agility has built one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies. And we are part of the global effort toward building a low carbon economy.