Maintenance Engineer

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join their Yanbu Natural Gas Liquids facility. This role involves providing expert maintenance engineering support for both stationary and rotating equipment, ensuring the effectiveness of maintenance programs. With a focus on reliability and optimization, you will lead initiatives that enhance asset integrity and performance. This is a unique opportunity to work in a high-performing environment, contributing to world-scale projects that address significant technical and environmental challenges. If you are passionate about engineering excellence and thrive in a dynamic setting, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in refining or petrochemical facilities required.
• Extensive technical expertise in maintenance program development and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily field troubleshooting and develop maintenance programs.
• Lead planning for major Turnaround & Inspection events and emergency shutdowns.

Skills

Reliability-Centered Maintenance

Risked Based Maintenance

Preventive Maintenance

Predictive Maintenance

Maintenance Planning

Maintenance Budgeting

Field Maintenance Practices

Education

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity 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 a Maintenance Engineer to join our Yanbu Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) within Western Region Manufacturing. Yanbu NGL is located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia and is responsible for providing the feedstock to the petrochemical industry like Ethane, Propane, Butane, and Natural Gas. Your primary role will be to provide maintenance engineering expertise & support to stationary and rotating equipment assets with full implementation across various maintenance programs.

Key Responsibilities

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

1. Perform field troubleshooting on a daily basis.
2. Develop and coordinate maintenance programs, procedures, and systems across maintenance activities, ensuring their effectiveness and continuous improvements.
3. Participate in major Turnaround & Inspection (T&Is) and emergency plant shutdowns, focusing on planning, scheduling, quality assurance, and execution.
4. Provide technical support to maintenance teams by developing repair procedures and monitoring ongoing repairs.
5. Lead or participate in scope development, development of contract strategy, technical bid evaluations, and procurements to ensure efficient and cost-effective execution.
6. Review and approve repair procedures to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
7. Evaluate and review design packages for small projects, covering scope of work, assembly/erection procedures, welding procedures, NDT requirements, material selection, and technical drawings.
8. Lead the planning, procurement, and execution of expense projects to optimize efficiency and resource utilization.
9. Analyze and review maintenance-related quotations and provide recommendations as needed.
10. Issue technical recommendations to enhance the deployment and performance of Asset Integrity Programs.
11. Develop scope of work for contracts procurement including materials, manpower, and equipment required.

Minimum Requirements

1. You must hold a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
2. You should have a minimum of 12 years’ experience within refining or petrochemical facilities.
3. You must be able to demonstrate extensive technical expertise in the development, implementation, and optimization of maintenance programs and activities.
4. You must have extensive experience within an oil and gas maintenance organization.
5. Expertise in the following areas is required:

• Reliability-Centered Maintenance - implementing systematic methodologies to enhance equipment reliability and performance.
• Risked Based Maintenance - applying risk assessment techniques to optimize maintenance strategies.
• Preventive and Predictive Maintenance - utilizing data-driven approaches to minimize unplanned downtime and improve asset healthiness.
• Spare parts and materials procurement strategies - developing and executing effective procurement plans to ensure the availability of critical spare parts and materials.
• Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and work prioritization - ensuring efficient resources allocation and execution of maintenance tasks.
• Maintenance budgeting and cost control - developing and managing maintenance budgets to optimize spending while maintaining operational efficiency.
• Field maintenance practices - executing on-site maintenances activities in compliance with industry standards and safety protocols.

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.