Turnaround Engineer - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Family Relocation Package

aramco; Fatih; On-site; TRY 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Turnaround Engineer to manage turnaround services for refining and petrochemical plants. This role requires 12 years of relevant experience, knowledge in turnaround planning, and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering. The ideal candidate will lead reviews, motivate teams to implement best practices, and conduct risk management workshops. This permanent position is based in Saudi Arabia.

Benefits

Professional development programs

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in Turnaround Management within Oil & Gas.
• Knowledge of turnaround staging and execution.
• Experience in budgeting and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead turnaround assurance reviews and prepare improvement recommendations.
• Motivate teams to implement best practices.
• Conduct risk and scope challenge workshops.

Skills

Turnaround management

Project management

Risk management

SAP systems

Turnaround planning software

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Primavera P6

Job description

Please note that this role is based in Saudi Arabia on a permanent, residential basis.

Job Req ID: 15371

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Turnaround Engineer to join Maintenance Solution Department (MSD) under Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME).

MSD is responsible for providing maintenance technical consultations, towards best-in-class maintenance organization through conducting selective maintenance assessments, turnaround assurances and deploying cutting-edge technologies and best practice across Global Manufacturing portfolio.

The primary role is to provide turnaround management services for refining and petrochemical plants of SAUDI ARAMCO (SA) downstream sector. The services will cover the coordination with SA wholly owned assets, affiliates, affiliates management, and other related corporate functions such as Corporate Maintenance Services Department.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Assist / Lead turnaround assurance review or cold-eye review of turnaround preparation of different facilities in order to have predictable outcome and improvement.
• Review the progress and quality of the deliverables during the turnaround life cycle and all the phases and come out with convincing recommendations for improvements.
• Work as an influencer and motivate turnaround planning team of different facilities to implement best practices, lessons learned to enhance quality, safety as well as competitiveness.
• Review implementation of stage-gated turnaround processes in different facilities.
• Assist / Conduct risk management workshop for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist / Conduct scope challenge workshop for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist / Conduct schedule challenge workshop for turnarounds for different facilities.
• Assist / Review Key Performance Indicators for turnarounds.
• Keep abreast of significant developments in new technologies which can improve Turnaround performances.
• Lead and run Community of Practice to collect and disseminate the best practices and knowledge between all refining and petrochemical assets.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized and approved program. A Mechanical Engineering Degree is preferred.
• 12 years-experience in Turnaround Management including planning & execution in the Oil & Gas Downstream sector (Refining & Petrochemicals)
• Experience in turnaround planning software such as Prometheus, ROSER, Primavera P6 and any other end-to-end solutions for turnaround and outage management.
• Knowledge and experience in turnaround stage gated concept.
• Experience in conducting turnaround assurance is preferred.
• Understanding of competitiveness, and Solomon indices pertaining to turnaround performance.
• Experience in turnaround budgeting and cost optimization.
• Experience in contracting strategy, contract scope preparation, and technical bid evaluation for turnaround contracts.
• Experience in turnaround materials & resources management.
• turnarounds.
• Experience in close-out activities such as critique, post-turnaround reports development, and lessons learned documentation is also necessary.
• Experience in turnaround risk management.
• Experience in cost benchmarking such as Solomon is preferable.
• SAP system proficiency is also a requirement.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.

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.

Country/Region: SA