Lead Turnaround Engineer (Relocation to Saudi Arabia is required) Full Time

This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia. It is a permanent full time Expat position with an attractive relocation package.

Please note only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Overview:

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

MSD is responsible for providing specialized and timely maintenance engineering support to Global Manufacturing operating facilities.

Your 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, OSPAS 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 provide 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:

• You will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized and approved program. A Mechanical Engineering Degree is preferred.
• You will have a minimum of 12 years-experience in Turnaround Management including planning & execution in the Oil & Gas Downstream sector (Refining & Petrochemicals)
• You will have thorough knowledge and experience in turnaround stage gated concept.
• Experience in conducting turnaround assurance is preferred.
• You must have good understanding of competitiveness, and Solomon indices pertaining to turnaround performance.
• SAP system proficiency is required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred.
• Working knowledge in turnaround planning software such as Prometheus, ROSER, Primavera P6 and any other end-to-end solutions for turnaround and outage management is preferred.