Senior Instrumentation Engineer - Plant Maintenance

Eram Talent; Dhahran Compound; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 680,000; Full time

Job summary

Eram Talent seeks an experienced Instrumentation Engineer to join our Mechanical Services Shops team in Saudi Arabia. You will perform instrument engineering, calibration, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and commissioning for rotating and static equipment, ensuring reliability of instrumentation across plant systems.

This role requires a Bachelors degree in Instrumentation or related fields and at least 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including 7 years maintaining and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronics, Automation, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• Minimum 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including at least 7 years maintaining and commissioning instrumentation for manufacturing equipment and facility systems.
• Strong knowledge of industrial sensors, transmitters, analyzers, vibration and speed probes, control valves, data acquisition, signal standards, grounding, and calibration.
• Hands-on experience with PLC/DCS I/O, HART or fieldbus devices, loop checking, alarm and trip systems, instrument networks, and OEM machine interfaces.
• Proven ability to develop calibration and preventive-maintenance plans, troubleshoot recurring failures, and manage instrument configurations.

Responsibilities

• Instrumentation Engineering: Specify, evaluate, and maintain pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration, speed, position, force, torque, gas, and analytical instruments.
• Calibration and Metrology: Develop calibration plans, establish tolerances and intervals, maintain traceability, document calibration results, and assess out-of-tolerance conditions.
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance: Diagnose faults involving sensors, transmitters, wiring, grounding, signal conditioning, I/O systems, instrument loops, networks, alarms, and protection systems.
• Controls and Commissioning: Prepare instrument datasheets, loop diagrams, hook-ups, cause-and-effect documentation, calibration procedures, FAT/SAT plans, loop checks, and commissioning records.
• Asset and Change Management: Maintain instrument registers, critical spares, configuration backups, calibration history, obsolescence plans, bypass controls, MOC records, and contractor quality documentation.
• Reliability Improvement: Develop preventive-maintenance strategies, investigate recurring failures, implement corrective actions, and ensure compliance with applicable engineering and safety standards.

Skills

Instrumentation engineering

Calibration & metrology

Troubleshooting

Preventive maintenance

Commissioning

Asset & change management

Reliability improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation/related

Tools

PLC/DCS I/O

HART/Fieldbus

Loop checking

Alarm & trip systems

Instrument networks

OEM interfaces

Job description

Eram Talent seeks an experienced Instrumentation Engineer to join our Mechanical Services Shops team in Saudi Arabia. You will perform instrument engineering, calibration, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and commissioning for rotating and static equipment, ensuring reliability of instrumentation across plant systems.

This role requires a Bachelors degree in Instrumentation or related fields and at least 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including 7 years maintaining and