Reliability Engineer

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 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 power systems reliability engineer to join the Reliability & Asset Management Division (R&AMD) of Power Systems Technical Support Department (PSTSD).

PSTSD provides high voltage electrical equipment specialized technical support to power operations. R&AMD is responsible for administrating power systems engineering studies, equipment life cycle management, reliability assessments, equipment failure analysis, digital transformation, maintenance strategy reviews and enhancement to ensure safe, reliable and efficient power supply to all companyu2019s hydrocarbon production and other support facilities.

Your primary role is to support, consult, guide and assist power systems operating areas and ongoing project teams to ensure adherence to reliability and asset integrity management standards.

Key responsibilities

You will be required to perform the following:

• Develop, manage, update and monitor implementation of short and long-term asset management policy, strategy, initiatives and work plans for power system assets and ensure alignment with overall company strategic asset management program.
• Manage power systems owned substations by deploying Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS) program.
• Manage power systems high voltage electrical equipment life cycle management process.
• Develop and manage contingency plans to sustain power supply in case of substation or facility interruptions.
• Evaluate risk-based maintenance methodology based on likelihood and consequences.
• Coordinate asset management plans and initiatives with operational entities.
• Provide technical guidance and tools in the area of risk and reliability assessment and management to work groups involved with distribution infrastructure replacement, substation infrastructure replacement, and transmission infrastructure replacement.
• Assist in development of reliability models based on specialized modelling software.
• Perform asset failure trending and analysis. Identify repetitive failures and perform root cause analyses to avoid reoccurrence of failures.
• Perform data analysis using techniques such as application performance monitoring, root cause analysis, Six Sigma, etc. Calculate and update the asset KPIs. Issue reliability program monthly reports (MTBF, mean time to recovery, bad actors, etc.) updating the equipment health progress, and reporting failures and successes.
• Oversee power system assets performance and report power systems technical KPIs for transmission and distribution assets.
• Utilize SAP Failure Reporting Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) to document and track unreliability events and reliability improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical information for field unreliability events backed up with equipment history and process data intended for area maintenance. Review the preventive maintenance defect reports and evaluate corrective actions. Communicate with vendors, suppliers and manufacturers for equipment reliability support.
• Participate in developing, revising and tracking asset management strategies.
• Supervise the documentation and development of asset inventory for each class of assets, asset condition, level of service and performance, risk signature, maintenance strategies, repair and replacement models, financial forecasts, and tactical and work plans.
• Support business case development to initiate asset replacement programs.

Minimum requirements

The successful candidate should hold a minimum of a bachelor degree in electrical engineering working on high voltage power systems electrical equipment. Ten (10) years of experience in oil and gas, petrochemical industry or power utility in the field of power systems reliability and asset integrity management.

Familiar with reliability programs such as Reliability Centered Maintenance, mean time between failure, bad actors, etc., including SAP system or equivalent computerized systems.

Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP), Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), TapRooT Analyst or Six Sigma certification is preferred.

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.