Instrumentation Engineer (Refinery) - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Family Relocati[...] in England

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

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.

We are seeking an Instrumentation Engineer to join our Technical Support Team under Global Manufacturing Organization (GM). The Technical Support Team is a multi-disciplinary team focusing mainly on supporting the technical and business needs of GM Operating facilities. Your primary role is to handle instrumentation engineering aspects such as designing, developing, installing, managing, and maintaining instruments systems across multiple Downstream facilities. You will also be responsible for providing technical support on high priority systems issues.

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

• Provide technical guidance, support, training, and expertise to plant departments.
• Monitor instrumentation systems performance across all downstream departments.
• Assess Instrumentation performance and recommend improvements for system optimization.
• Develop and maintain lifecycle management activities for instrumentation systems.
• Establish auditing guidelines and perform frequent instruments audits.
• Lead the development of new strategies and validate the feasibility of improving company productivity.
• Ensure manufacturing knowledge is captured in the knowledge repository and continuous improvement is delivered by benchmarking and best practices.
• Provide awareness sessions and lead technical exchanges and conferences.
• Maintain Instrumentation systems knowledge repository.
• Act as a subject matter expert in Instrumentation and contribute to the troubleshooting activities.

You will hold a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering or equivalent. You will have a minimum of 12 years’ experience in refining /oil and gas plants /petrochemical industries. You will be proficient in the codes and standards in the oil and gas industry, i.e., API, BS, ISO, ASME, ANSI, IEC, ISA, IEEE, etc. You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. You will be familiar with field instrument types and applications. You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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.