Senior Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

We are seeking an electrical project engineer to join our power systems projects and technical support department. Power systems projects and technical support department (P&TSD) is one of five departments within power systems in Saudi Aramco. Its mission is to provide best in class power engineering services to internal and external clients through a competent workforce and viable technologies.

Your primary role will be to lead the execution of capital projects. You will ensure that engineering design, procurement, construction, and project completion are completed in compliance with the project objectives and contractual requirements, i.e., project schedule, cost, HSE, company standards, and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Lead and recommend new continuous improvement solutions for installations or modifications to improve existing facilities and standardization within specific fields of endeavor. Estimate costs, prepare justifications, and complete expenditure requests as required.
• Develop plans, schedules, and provide work direction for preparation of designs, processes, reports, correspondence, and related data, and assure the efficiency, adequacy, and conformance to overall objectives of challenging engineering problems.
• Develop scope and description of technology items, and lead the implementation and operation of developed solutions in the field.
• Proactively identify, develop solutions, and implement for any issues that may affect cost, schedule, safety, or quality. Ensure timely resolution of project issues arising in all phases of the project development.
• Review work of junior engineers directed.
• Negotiate agreements and change orders with design and execution contractors.
• Ensure safety measures are implemented in the projects' execution.
• Be fully familiar with company key performance indices (KPIs) and proactively identify actions to ensure those KPIs are achieved.
• Review weekly and monthly reports on the status and progress of the contracts, including project costs and schedule. Attend project meetings, e.g., progress, stakeholders, design review, value improvement, etc.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate, you must have a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
• You should have a minimum of 8 years' experience. Chartered engineer certification or certification as professional engineers is preferred. Additionally, formal qualification in project management is preferred.
• You should have a robust understanding of international procedures of projects phases, engineering phases, bidding procedures, procurement processes, construction requirements, and up-to-date best practices.
• Flexible to work in multinational teams and mobilize to different locations including remote areas as needed.

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.