Hydrogen Engineer

Job description / Role

Job Description

We are seeking a Hydrogen Engineer to join our New Energy Engineering Division (NEED) under our Process and Control Systems Department.

The Process and Control Systems Department provides services in the field of process engineering, automation, new energy, and digitalization to various entities within Aramco.

As a Hydrogen Engineer, your role is to provide specific technical expertise related to hydrogen production and utilization to the projects, operations, and new business initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

As a successful candidate, you will be required to perform the following:

• Provide technical support for operating plants. This includes liaison with licensors, catalyst vendors, and the operations in troubleshooting plant upsets and other operational problems. Review existing operations to identify improvement opportunities. Participate in the planning of operating plant turnaround activities, necessary to ensure long-term reliable operation.
• Provide technical leadership in the projects and new business initiatives by carrying out evaluation and technology selection of hydrogen production and utilization options for low carbon fuel production and CO2 emission reduction initiatives, e.g., blue, green, and turquoise hydrogen.
• Participate in the execution of hydrogen-related projects by reviewing the various process documents at different stages of capital projects, such as concept, pre-FEED, FEED, and detailed engineering phases.
• Engage in techno-economic evaluation of new technologies, catalysts, or adsorbents related to low carbon hydrogen production and associated fields; and provide recommendations to the business for suitable deployments.
• Develop Saudi Aramco's internal capability to generate basic parameters, such as high-level heat and mass balance, broad equipment specifications, utility and energy consumptions, process performance, etc.
• Provide initial inputs to studies related to new business opportunities, to assess plant performances and to verify licensor data in new projects.
• Create, review, and update relevant Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards or best practices related to the subject field.
• Mentor and develop young engineers to become specialists.
• Develop new and/or deliver existing technical courses for engineers from operating facilities.

Minimum Requirements:

As a successful candidate, you will hold:

• A Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or similar fields. A higher degree is preferred but not required.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in the field of hydrocarbon or chemical industries, with a strong understanding of hydrogen production and purification technologies, such as electrolysis, steam reforming (SMR/ATR), gasification (POX), water gas shift, and PSA technologies. Field experience in operations or commissioning of a hydrogen production unit is also required.
• Adequate design experience to take a lead role as the company representative when working with licensors or engineering contractors performing studies or basic/detail engineering for a hydrogen production-related project.
• Sufficient process simulation experience in standard software like Hysys, ProMax, etc., to model process schemes independently to analyze the performance of existing units or review the licensor's data for new plants.

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.