Application Senior Engineer

Alkhorayef Group; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading oil and gas services company in Saudi Arabia is seeking an Application Engineering Lead to manage and guide a team specializing in artificial lift technologies, including Electrical Submersible Pumps. The role involves overseeing project management, supporting sales endeavors, and providing technical guidance while ensuring customer satisfaction. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a minimum of 8 years in oilfield operations. This full-time position is based in Dammam with competitive benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in ESP oilfield rig and maintenance operations.
• At least 3 years in ESP Application Engineering.
• Experience with troubleshooting, installation, and commissioning is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of application engineers in artificial lift systems design.
• Support sales team in tender preparation for the Middle East region.
• Oversee project management, ensuring timely delivery of projects.

Skills

ESP application knowledge

Technical troubleshooting

Customer relationship management

Project management

Education

Bachelor Degree in Engineering/Electrical or Petroleum

Tools

SubPump software

Job description

• Leading a talented team of application engineers in the design and implementation of artificial lift systems.
• Supporting the sales team in tender preparation for the Middle East region.
• Promote the NT and pursue new sales opportunities.
• Overseeing project management, ensuring timely and successful delivery of projects, MMF invoicing, financial performance, LD’s….
• Providing technical guidance and troubleshooting support to optimize system performance.
• Engaging and collaborating with clients to develop tailored solutions that meet their needs.
• Staying abreast of industry trends and contributing to innovative product development by closely collaborating with the APC R&D team.
• Designs ESP solutions for wells, using SubPump software, as per client data.
• Analyses and troubleshoots ESP technical problems.
• Minimizes ESP failure and improve its run life.
• Explore enhancement technologies and new Technologies.
• Explores enhancement technologies and new innovations to strengthen performance and deliver added value to clients.
• Follows up on monthly maintenance invoicing, installation report tickets with clients.
• Handles daily, weekly, monthly running ESP status monitoring and sends performance reports/ dashboard reports to clients.
• Monitors consumption levels of ESP systems spare parts to avoid shortages and communicates replenishment requests to Inventory Manager.
• Conducts monthly inventory checks to reconcile discrepancies amongst actual vs. system indicated consumable parts.
• Monitors material costs across operations and works to improve Gross Margin (GM) per field through effective cost control and optimization.
• Visits with clients periodically to understand and respond to their ESP systems application specs/ requirements and coordinates internal efforts to meet such demands.
• Manages and guides field operations staff in all aspects of ESP systems installation, troubleshooting, pre-commissioning and commissioning, and sends reports to clients, confirming ESP system suitability as per specs.
• Monitors daily ESP and well status, collects monthly well data from ESP monitoring tool and analyze data to check ESP performance.
• Monitors and leverages ESP installation KPIs.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering/ Electrical or Petroleum.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in ESP oilfield rig and maintenance operations is required, including at least 3 years in ESP Application Engineering.
• Previous ESP applications, troubleshooting, installation, pre-commissioning, commissioning experience is required.
• Previous experience with special engineering software for ESP Design and Well Performance Modelling (subpump) is required.
• Previous Customer Relationship Management experience is required.
• Previous Oil and Gas upstream processes’ experience is required.

About Us

Alkhorayef Group was founded in 1957 by the late Abdullah Ibrahim Alkhorayef, who was quite ambitious and daring. By virtue of his dedication, the group made its name in Saudi Arabia’s agriculture sector. He soon represented reputable international producers of water pumps, agricultural, irrigation and well drilling equipment in the Kingdom.

In a short span of time, Alkhorayef Group has achieved excellence on agricultural market by representing and marketing the top of the line brands, combined with a variety of excellent services to its customers.

The Company diversified its activities and continued its progress in various fields such as machinery systems, oil, contracting as well as printing and paper. As it became necessary to pay particular and specialized attention to each field, the founding Company branched into several subsidiaries, each being independent in terms of management and resources, but all are unified under the established corporate code of ethics of the Alkhorayef Group.

Today the Group which enjoys a worldwide presence ,operates in more than 40 countries representing renowned quality products and manufacturers.

About the Team

Alkhorayef Petroleum is a Saudi owned Oil and Gas Services Company with operations across 3 continents and headquartered in Dammam. Our success is in our customer first approach & emphasis on providing holistic, fit-for-purpose solutions. This facilitated our growth and expansion; initially becoming a market leader in the supply and maintenance of artificial lift technologies including, Electrical Submersible Pumps, Horizontal Pumps and Progressive Cavity Pumps, to being the customer of choice for the Design, Supply Install & Commission, as well Operation & Maintenance of crude production facilities and enhanced oil recovery projects. Most recently we have inaugurated our wireline business providing cased hole wireline services in production logging, well integrity and mechanical intervention. We are present across 3 continents in 11 countries across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. We pride ourselves on our vertically integrated approach to the business where we provide research and development, engineering, manufacturing and field servicing of our artificial lift products and services.

Job Info

• Job Identification 5203
• Job Category After Sales
• Posting Date 11/30/2025, 08:54 AM
• Apply Before 12/30/2025, 09:00 PM
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 7136 2nd Industrial City, Street No.87 Near Modon Lake, Dammam, SA