Turnaround 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 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 among the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced turnaround engineer to join the Maintenance Solution Department (MSD) under Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME).

MSD is responsible for providing maintenance technical consultations, towards best-in-class maintenance organization through conducting selective maintenance assessments, turnaround assurances, and deploying cutting-edge technologies and best practices across the Global Manufacturing portfolio.

The primary role is to provide turnaround management services for refining and petrochemical plants of Saudi Aramco (SA) downstream sector. The services will cover coordination with SA wholly owned assets, affiliates, affiliates management, and other related corporate functions such as Corporate Maintenance Services Department.

Key responsibilities

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

• Assist or lead turnaround assurance review or cold-eye review of turnaround preparation of different facilities in order to have predictable outcomes and improvements.
• Review the progress and quality of the deliverables during the turnaround life cycle and all the phases and provide convincing recommendations for improvements.
• Work as an influencer and motivate turnaround planning teams of different facilities to implement best practices and lessons learned to enhance quality, safety as well as competitiveness.
• Review implementation of stage-gated turnaround processes in different facilities.
• Assist or conduct risk management workshops for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist or conduct scope challenge workshops for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist or conduct schedule challenge workshops for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist or review key performance indicators for turnarounds.
• Keep abreast of significant developments in new technologies which can improve turnaround performances.
• Lead and run Community of Practice to collect and disseminate the best practices and knowledge between all refining and petrochemical assets.

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.
• 12 yearsu2019 experience in turnaround management including planning and execution in the oil and gas downstream sector (refining and petrochemicals).
• Experience in turnaround planning software such as Prometheus, ROSER, Primavera P6, and any other end-to-end solutions for turnaround and outage management.
• Knowledge and experience in turnaround stage-gated concept.
• Experience in conducting turnaround assurance is required.
• Understanding of competitiveness and Solomon indices pertaining to turnaround performance.
• Experience in turnaround budgeting and cost optimization.
• Experience in contracting strategy, contract scope preparation, and technical bid evaluation for turnaround contracts.
• Experience in turnaround materials and resources management.
• Experience in close-out activities such as critique, post-turnaround reports development, and lessons learned documentation is also necessary.
• Experience in turnaround risk management.
• Experience in cost benchmarking such as Solomon is preferable.
• SAP system proficiency is also a requirement.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.

Job post duration

Job posting start date: 07/01/2025
Job posting end date: 12/31/2025

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.