Maintenance 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.

We are seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our Mechanical Maintenance Group under the Research and Analytical Services Department. The Mechanical Maintenance Group is responsible for managing and overseeing maintenance and operation of eight laboratory facilities, along with their associated utilities, in Dhahran.

Your primary role is to develop and implement innovative solutions to complex maintenance problems in our Research facility. You will oversee the lifecycle management of our existing assets, whilst developing maintenance plans, test and inspection plans, and equipment standardization to ensure optimal performance, safety, and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Prepare and implement operating instructions, mechanical specifications, and quality assurance processes to support research facility operations and maintenance activities.
• Participate in project planning, cost development, and scheduling, and direct activities to ensure that maintenance, repairs, and upgrades conform to functional specifications, recognized codes and standards, and research facility requirements.
• Participate in the Management of Change as reviewer, engineering design development, implementation, and field verification.
• Direct and execute experimental equipment preventive maintenance program using SAP PM.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the preventive maintenance program.
• Oversee the management of the Research and Innovation Complex mechanical asset spare part inventory.
• Perform critical spare parts management.
• Implement and comply with safety engineering corporate and international standards.
• Lead and manage risk assessments within the group.
• Develop continuous improvement solutions and formulate the design basis by collecting and analyzing data information relative to operating requirements.
• Look for ways to improve and promote quality in the utilities system operation activity.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate, you will hold a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• You will have a minimum of 10 years mechanical maintenance experience.
• Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Must be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of utility systems such as, but not limited to, vacuum systems, air compressors, storage tanks, water pumps, and fire protection system.
• Reliability knowledge and capabilities in areas such as RBI.
• High capability in using SAP-PM.
• Excellent knowledge in utility systems and P&ID designs.
• Experience in problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Excellent planning and execution drive to deliver results and meet quality, cost, and schedule targets.
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment to help develop new systems and infrastructure.

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.