Lead Piping Specialist

Job description / Role

We are currently looking for experts to join our team in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, to provide multi-disciplinary services and expertise to our clients on a wide range of onshore oil and gas capital projects. The work will involve project management, engineering, and procurement and construction supervision and we’re looking for people at all levels, in particular the role defined below. To support our ongoing projects we now require a Piping Engineer to work in a team of Oil & Gas Engineers based in our KSA Office.

Job Purpose & Scope:
• Provide oversight and direction to engineering Contractors Piping engineering design work.
• Coordinate and supervise the Piping engineering aspects of the Saudi Aramco Onshore Capital Projects to ensure the technical objectives are met within the approved scope, budget, and schedule.
• Supervise, oversee and coordinate regular and timely technical reviews of Piping related engineering deliverables developed by engineering Contractors, ensuring design optimization in compliance with relevant Aramco codes, standards, and best practices.
• Coordination and support of other Aramco Technical Departments, Business Units, Operations, and Contractors to resolve technical issues and ensure quality Engineering execution and design integrity.

Principal Accountabilities:
• Ensure quality and accuracy of General Engineering Services Contractor’s and EPC Contractor’s Piping engineering design activities, system integration, and design selection.
• Supervise and manage the review and approval of General Engineering Services Contractor's and EPC Contractor’s work, ensuring compliance with Saudi Aramco Onshore Capital Projects specifications, relevant codes and standards, and best industry practices.
• Coordinate the required engineering participation and contribute input and expertise in the development and analysis of various design options and business models to validate and optimize Contractor’s engineering designs.
• Coordinate the technical guidance required to develop new specifications and update existing specifications in line with Company requirements.
• Piping discipline participation in model reviews, design reviews, and technical workshops.
• Influence Facilities and Equipment design optimization.
• Provide technical assistance and coordination with other discipline specialists.
• Coordinate technical reviews and analysis during vendor prequalification, bid evaluation, and performance evaluation.
• Provide mentor’s role to develop KSA Nationals and junior engineers.
• Coordinate the review of technical bid submissions and perform technical bid analysis.
• Organizational Relationships (Work Contacts)
• Report directly to the Design Coordinator, and provide support to Project Managers and Engineers within the Saudi Aramco Onshore Capital Projects Management Team organization.
• Interface with Managers, Team Leaders and Engineers in Saudi Aramco’s Technical Departments, Business Units, Operations Units, and Logistics Department.
• Interface regularly with Contractor’s engineering and Project Management Team and Team Leaders as and when required.

Requirements

Independence of Operations and Decision-making Authority:
• Responsible for influencing, coordinating, and monitoring all Piping Engineering related activities produced at General Engineering Service offices.
• Participate in technical reviews and studies and ensure that technical reviews and studies receive the appropriate Piping related engineering input.
• Exercises judgment in making decisions; knows when to seek advice

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).