Process Engineer - Distillation

Saudi Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Downstream Process Engineer to join their Ras Tanura Refinery Engineering Department. This role offers the chance to provide exceptional process engineering support, ensuring the safe, reliable, and economical operation of crude distillation and treating units. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in refinery processes, particularly in crude distillation, and will be responsible for optimizing plant performance, leading safety management initiatives, and managing significant projects. Join a company that invests heavily in talent development and faces some of the world's biggest energy challenges, while working on world-scale projects that make a real impact.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of refinery process unit experience, especially with crude distillation units.
• Certified PHA/HAZOP leader with exposure to various licensor technologies.

Responsibilities

• Optimize CDU/VDU unit performance and issue detailed optimization reports.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts and manage plant shutdowns/startups.

Skills

Crude Distillation

Process Optimization

Troubleshooting

Process Safety Management

HAZOP

Education

Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering

Advanced Degree (preferred)

Tools

Process Simulation Software

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Downstream Process Engineer with experience in Crude Distillation and treating processes (mainly Atmospheric distillation, Vacuum distillation, MEROX, etc.) to join our Ras Tanura Refinery Engineering Department (RTRED).

RTRED is responsible for supporting and overseeing the performances of facility assets.

Your primary role is to provide exceptional process engineering support, monitoring plant performance, capturing optimization opportunities and value-creation programs for the operation of crude Distillation and Treating Units to operate safely, reliably, and economically as well as achieve target goals while realizing company strategic imperatives.

Key Responsibilities

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

1. Perform in-depth plant monitoring and optimize performance of CDU/VDU units by overseeing the unit’s operation and economics losses. You will issue detailed reports to recommend changes supported by simulation models’ results to optimize unit operation.
2. Lead unit operations troubleshooting and investigating off-specification products and plant trips/upsets and manage the required deliverables.
3. Support operations during turnaround and unplanned shutdowns and startups by understanding the unit operating conditions and transient effects to recommend operations improvements.
4. Perform specific tasks such as catalyst forecast/evaluation, test runs, de-bottlenecking studies, due-diligence assessment, enhancement studies, and HAZOP studies.
5. Act as a lead in process safety management overseeing HAZOP, PSR, SIL, PSSR, QRA, and Alarm Rationalization. Lead HAZOP/Process Safety Reviews of plant operations as well as new modifications.
6. Manage long and short-term projects by proposing major projects to improve safety, reliability, and profitability. Prepare design requests, budget justifications, and detailed implementation plans for economically justifiable projects. Also, develop detailed engineering design packages for in-house process-oriented projects and follow up on implementation.
7. Review and revise standard work procedures like new operating procedures, instructions, RIMs, alarm and ESD checklists, MOC, HAZOP, JSA, Relieve valves, and plant drawings.
8. Familiar with carrying out process simulation using various software packages.

Minimum Requirements

1. You must hold a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering. An advanced degree is preferred.
2. You should have a minimum of 15 years of total refinery process unit experience (process engineering and operations) with at least 10 years’ experience in handling crude distillation units.
3. Exposure to different licensor technologies for Hydrocarbon treating is a plus as well as familiarity with Honeywell UOP or Axens licensed units.
4. Certified PHA/HAZOP leader.

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. As a global energy company, we face some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, and 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.