Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA)

KBR; Al Khobar; On-site; SAR 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA) in Saudi Arabia with 12+ years of oil and gas experience. The role involves leading a 5–8 person engineering team, developing PSA system architecture, and coordinating protection, relays, and network interfaces across PSAs and SCADA environments.

Responsibilities include reviewing panels, workstations, and gateways, and providing SME-level guidance on I/O engineering and system integration for large-scale projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required.
• Minimum 12+ years in Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience leading a medium-sized team of electrical engineers and designers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 5–8 person electrical team.
• Define PSA system architecture and protection interfaces.
• Review PSA panels, operator workstations, and network components.
• Coordinate PSA with SCADA, RTU, DCS, and other controls.
• Provide SME technical leadership for PSA design and system integration.
• Prepare MR/TBE and vendor NMR reviews for PSA/SCADA interfaces.
• Ensure design integrity, on-schedule delivery within budget.
• Lead technical presentations to clients.

Skills

Protection philosophy

Relay settings

SCADA integration

PD/IED coordination

Electrical up to 115 kV

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA)

Overall Summary Principal Electrical Engineer – with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience in developing, reviewing, and coordinating substation automation, protection, control, monitoring, and communication requirements for Saudi Aramco projects in the Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, and Infrastructure industries. Demonstrated leadership of a medium team of electrical engineers and designers and experience in Conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering of medium to large scale projects required.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5 to 8 electrical engineers and designers
• Develop and review the Power System Automation philosophy, system architecture, functional design specification, network architecture, and interface requirements.
• Define the integration of protection relays, intelligent electronic devices, meters, switchgear, transformers, motor control centers, UPS systems, battery chargers, and other electrical equipment with the PSA system.
• Review PSA panels, operator workstations, engineering workstations, servers, gateways, managed switches, GPS time-synchronization systems, and associated network components.
• Coordinate interfaces between the PSA system and SCADA, SAS, RTU, DCS, ESD, PMS, load-shedding systems, electrical control systems, and remote-control centers, as applicable.
• Provide SME-level technical leadership and guidance for PSA system design, I/O engineering, protection interfaces, automation architecture, and system integration.
• Prepare/review MR and TBE and perform detailed Vendor NMR reviews for PSA/SCADA interfaces and related electrical equipment.
• Responsible for design integrity of electrical scope, performance of assigned staff, on-schedule delivery of the work within budget
• Lead technical presentations to Clients and their representatives as required

Key Interactions

• Other disciplines activities
• Vendors (technical)
• Interact with the project Management Clients representatives

Qualifications & Years of Experience

Minimum Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a minimum of 12+ years in Oil & Gas industry, hydrocarbon, petroleum refinery and infrastructure industries.

Key Skills & Technical Competencies

• Expert knowledge and understanding of protection engineering design practices, including protection philosophy, scheme development, relay application and settings, protection & metering drawings, AC/DC schematics, tripping logic, interlocking, CT/VT selection and protection interfaces for electrical systems up to 115 kV.
• Wide knowledge of codes and industry standards IEEE, NFPA, API, IEC, ANSI/NEMA.
• Wide knowledge in Electrical Power Systems, Protection Philosophy & Protection Device Coordination.
• Knowledge of Saudi Aramco, SABIC Standards and procedures will be an added advantage.

KBR — Delivering Solutions, Changing the World.

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• We Value Our People – We create diverse, inclusive environments in which each person can feel safe, respected and valued, and where everyone has opportunities to grow and reach their full potential.
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• We Empower – We empower our people with a shared purpose, the right tools and the supportive culture they need to be proactive decision-makers, to be adaptive to change, and to succeed.
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We have also embedded environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles in every business operation and corporate function. Not only are we committed to operating safely, sustainably and equitably, but we are also committed to using our capabilities and expertise to help our customers accomplish their sustainability goals.

Worldwide, KBR employs a diverse workforce approximately 29,000 people strong, with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 40 countries.

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