Instrumentation / Control Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

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 of 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.

Position

We are seeking an Instrumentation and Control Engineer to join the Central Ghawar Engineering Division (CGED). The Central Ghawar Engineering Division is responsible for providing support and engineering services to three operating divisions in Central Ghawar Producing Department (CGPD).

As an Instrumentation and Control Engineer, your primary role is to provide the highest quality technical support in the field of instrumentation and process control to support operating plants.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Prepare comprehensive instrumentation design packages.
• Troubleshoot field instrumentation related problems.
• Investigate plant and equipment trips and provide remedial engineering recommendations.
• Prepare conceptual design packages and engineering budgetary cost estimates.
• Provide technical support to maintenance and operations with regards to instrumentation, distributed control systems (DCS), emergency shutdown (ESD), virtual metering system (VMS), and auxiliary control systems.
• Recommend modifications to improve the performance of field instrumentation and process control.
• Size control valves, orifice plates, and relief valves using certified sizing software.
• Review instrumentation engineering design packages and provide meaningful comments and quality assurance assessment.
• Communicate with equipment vendors and technical consultants to resolve complex issues concerning new technology and upgrades of equipment.
• Review Saudi Aramco engineering standards and participate in engineering standards review committees.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate, you will hold a:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in instrumentation and control engineering support for hydrocarbon facilities.
• Demonstrate excellent hands-on experience in distributed control systems (DCS) and emergency shutdown (ESD) systems hands-on for Yokogawa and Schneider Electric systems.
• Expertise in DCS, ESD, and SCADA systems design, modifications, and upgrades.
• Knowledge in commissioning and troubleshooting of field instrumentation.

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.