Instrumentation Engineer - Refinery Experience Only

Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; MXN 1,448,000 - 2,896,000; Full time

Job summary

Aramco seeks an Instrumentation Engineer to join the Technical Support Team under Global Manufacturing Organization (GM). The role focuses on supporting instrumentation systems, auditing, optimization, and knowledge capture across refinery and petrochemical operations.

The position requires a Bachelor’s in Electrical/Electronics and 12+ years in oil/gas or petrochemical environments, with strong codes/standards knowledge and excellent communication skills. Work location is in Saudi Arabia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
• 12+ years' experience in refining/oil and gas plants or petrochemical industries.
• Proficiency in oil and gas codes and standards (API, BS, ISO, ASME, ANSI, IEC, ISA, IEEE).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Familiar with field instrument types and applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance, support, training, and expertise to plant departments.
• Monitor instrumentation systems performance across all downstream departments.
• Assess Instrumentation performance and recommend improvements for system optimization.
• Develop and maintain lifecycle management activities for instrumentation systems.
• Establish auditing guidelines and perform frequent instruments audits.
• Lead the development of new strategies and validate the feasibility of improving company productivity.
• Ensure manufacturing knowledge is captured in the knowledge repository and continuous improvement is delivered by benchmarking and best practices.
• Provide awareness sessions and lead technical exchanges and conferences.
• Maintain Instrumentation systems knowledge repository.
• Act as a subject matter expert in Instrumentation and contribute to the troubleshooting activities.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world's 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 Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's 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 an Instrumentation Engineer to join our Technical Support Team under Global Manufacturing Organization (GM)

The Technical Support Team is a multi-disciplinary team focusing mainly on supporting the technical and business needs of GM Operating facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance, support, training, and expertise to plant departments.
• Monitor instrumentation systems performance across all downstream departments.
• Assess Instrumentation performance and recommend improvements for system optimization.
• Develop and maintain lifecycle management activities for instrumentation systems.
• Establish auditing guidelines and perform frequent instruments audits.
• Lead the development of new strategies and validate the feasibility of improving company productivity.
• Ensure manufacturing knowledge is captured in the knowledge repository and continuous improvement is delivered by benchmarking and best practices.
• Provide awareness sessions and lead technical exchanges and conferences.
• Maintain Instrumentation systems knowledge repository.
• Act as a subject matter expert in Instrumentation and contribute to the troubleshooting activities.

Minimum Requirements

• You will hold a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or equivalent.
• You will have a minimum of 12 years' experience in refining /oil and gas plants /petrochemical industries.
• You will be proficient in the codes and standards in the oil and gas industry, i.e., API, BS, ISO, ASME, ANSI, IEC, ISA, IEEE, etc.
• You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• You will be Familiar with field instrument types and applications.
• You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Work Location and Work Schedule

Work location: Within Saudi Arabia - To be specified in Job offer

Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer

Job Posting Duration

Job posting start date: 01/07/2026

Job posting end date: 12/31/2026

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.