Process Engineer - Utilities and Water Treatment - Relocate to Saudi Arabia

Candidate must Relocate to Saudi Arabia

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 Process Engineer specializing in Utilities and Water Treatment processes to join our Riyadh Refinery within the Operations Engineering Unit (OEU).

OEU are responsible for monitor and maintain optimum plant performance by using all available monitoring tools. Maintain daily visits to the site to track performance and correct any deviation and provide all technical and engineering support to the organization.

Your primary role is to provide field technical advisory support and process engineering and operations expertise to monitor, troubleshoot, optimize and drive key operation performance indicators and improve programs within Riyadh Refineries Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and Utilities. This includes sewage water treatment, raw water, cooling water, boiler feedwater, demineralized water, waste water treatment, instrument air, boilers and heat recovery steam generators and steam turbine generators power generation. You will drive our performance improvement programs to enhance process safety, optimize energy & manufacturing costs, increase plant reliability and maximize plant profitability.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Review and monitor the performance of existing WTP and Utilities facilities through key performance indicators (KPIs) representing the process plant’s optimum operability, profitability, reliability, and safety and issue daily report for deviation and corrective actions.

• Perform Monthly/Quarterly WTP and Utilities facilities performance reports highlighting the KPIs, chemical treatment program compliance analysis, descant, membrane, driers and adsorbent performance and recommendation of improvement.

• Identify the plant constraints and conduct internal assessments and debottleneck studies on WTP and Utilities facilities process with support of process licensor and engineering services.

• Provide technical advisory on matters concerning the operation of WTP and Utilities facilities which may include but not limited to operation related problems, process troubleshooting, start-up and shutdown activities, capacity test runs, technology pilot testing, and process design.

• Lead Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP), Management of Change (MOC), Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and incidents investigations.

• Develop business cases and engineering packages for any modifications and upgrade.

• Participate in business plan development and coordinate for any capital investments on assigned process units and support techno-economic evaluations.

• Recommend and coordinate proven technology deployments in WTP and Utilities facilities process units.

Minimum Requirements

• You must hold a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering.

• You must have a minimum of 8 years hands on experience within WTP and Utilities facilities in processes and operations.

• Exposure to different process licensor technologies of API, RO, Demin and HRSG such as FW, Westing House and Siemens is preferred.

• Exposure to different chemical vendor supplier and programs of 3D tracer, Purate system. Experience to water conservation programs filtration/polishing system and CHP model is also desirable.

• You should be efficient in Microsoft and be able to demonstrate presentation skills.

• Familiarity and understanding of the best practices, design principles, international engineering standards and specifications relevant to the operation of WTP and Utilities.

• A certified Process Hazards Analysis (PHA)/HAZOP leader 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.