Maintenance Engineering Specialist

Job description / Role

Aramco energizes the world economy

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the worldu2019s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest upstream carbon intensities 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 Aramcou2019s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a broad spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdomu2019s 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.

Overview

We are seeking a Maintenance Engineering Specialist with various industry maintenance programs to join Asset Maintenance Solution Department (AMSD) under Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME).

AMSD provides specialized and timely maintenance engineering support to wholly-owned and affiliatesu2019 refining and chemicals operating facilities, collectively known as Saudi Aramco Global Manufacturing.

The primary role is to provide technical expertise pertaining to the development, launching, and assessing of various maintenance programs, processes, procedures, and best practices for Global Manufacturing facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop maintenance processes, maintenance management strategy, work and performance management strategy and conduct maintenance health assessment in line with GME and corporate requirements. This includes PM and PdM strategies, organizational structures, manpower analysis, cost analysis, etc., and appraise and prepare reports on the effectiveness of such processes.
• Conduct data driven analyses to benchmark maintenance organizationu2019s performance to identify gaps then set sustainable plan to close the gaps. This includes, but is not limited to: spending analysis, maintenance effectiveness, operating costs of existing assets, PM and PdM, wrench time analysis, SAP taxonomy, planning and scheduling, personnel competency, budgeting strategy, bad actors, and RAM modeling.
• Analyze facilitiesu2019 maintenance performance to establish reference baseline and issue frequent maintenance benchmarking reports to promote knowledge.
• Review maintenance reporting mechanism and KPIs along with their trends to drive performance and provide recommendations accordingly.
• Analyze maintenance spending in terms of manpower, equipment, materials procurement and outsource strategies.
• Assist the line maintenance organizations in the implementation of approved programs such as TPRM or GM reliability model.
• Develop methods and programs for handling new situations in maintenance fields. This will include prototype pumps, motors, compressors, turbines, valves, instrument systems and computer systems.
• Design, in conjunction with engineering personnel and vendor representatives, alternative parts or systems.
• Represent AMSD on standing committees, special task groups or ad hoc committees.
• Recommend work which can be economically assigned to contractor organizations and develop scope of work.
• Report to concerned maintenance supervisor and manager on quality and quantity of workmanship and adherence to standards within assigned areas and recommend improved work methods.
• Ensure that periodic maintenance is performed in accordance with vendor recommendations and Aramco procedures and that maintenance logs and records are maintained.
• Prepare engineering reports on maintenance activities, methods and means for their improvement.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• Bacheloru2019s degree in Engineering from a recognized and approved program. A Mechanical Engineering degree is preferred.
• 10 years of relevant experience in the oil and gas downstream sector.
• Able to demonstrate high degree of technical competence in the area of maintenance programs and practices.
• Experience with risk-based processes such as reliability-centered maintenance and risk based maintenance.
• Experience with total productive maintenance.
• Strong hands-on experience with spare parts and materials procurement strategies.
• Best-in-class maintenance planning, scheduling and work prioritization experience.
• Experience with maintenance budgeting and spending control methodologies.
• Experience in field maintenance methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrate experience with computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) such as SAP.
• Conversant with MS Office applications.
• Demonstrate ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate fluency in spoken and written English.

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 worldu2019s 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 u2013 one of the largest in the world.