Maintenance Engineering Specialist

This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

This company engages in the exploration production transportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operates through the following segments: Upstream Downstream and Corporate. The Upstream segment includes crude oil natural gas and natural gas liquids exploration field development and production. The Downstream segment focuses on refining logistics power generation and the marketing of crude oil petroleum and petrochemical products and related services to international and domestic customers. The Corporate segment offers supporting services including human resources finance and information technology. The company was founded on May 29 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Downstream Technology Consultant to join our Global Manufacturing Excellence Organization under our technical support team.

The technical support is a multidisciplinary team responsible for providing the required high quality technical support to GM operating facilities (Refineries NGLF and petrochemical plants) inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & across the globe.

Your primary role will be to support the Technology roadmap and deployment programs which are aimed at maximizing the technology value realization utilization and benefits by deploying innovative and efficient solutions and technologies across Global Manufacturing facilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze maintenance spending in terms of manpower equipment materials procurement and outsource strategies.
• Assess planning and scheduling effectiveness including wench time benchmarks KPIs PM and predictive maintenance (PdM) effectiveness.
• Ensure completion of assigned maintenance work for a given maintenance function and mentor junior GC maintenance engineers.
• Conduct datadriven analysis to benchmark maintenance organizations performance identify gaps and develop sustainable plans to close them including:
  • Total spend analysis
  • Maintenance program effectiveness
  • Total lifecycle costs of new assets
  • Current operating costs of existing assets
  • Preventive and predictive maintenance strategies
  • Value creation as cost saving/cost avoidance
  • Wench time vs. plan
  • SAP structure table and equipment classification
  • Planning and scheduling effectiveness
  • Technician competency and qualification program
  • Maintenance budget strategy
  • Capital project and Reliability Availability and Maintainability (RAM) model among others.
• Benchmark and prepare reports on the effectiveness of maintenance processes.
• Work on an enterprise level to forecast procurement (materials and services) strategy for annual demand per facility.
• Assist in the implementation of approved programs including providing information authoritative interpretation conducting pilot runs and conducting training sessions.
• Assess T&I (Turnaround and Inspection) and turnaround programs per facility.

Requirements:

• Willingness to relocate to Dhahran Saudi Arabia.
• Hold a bachelors degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering.
• Have a minimum of 10 years work experience in refining or petrochemical facilities.
• Demonstrate the highest degree of technical competence in maintenance programs and activities.
• Strong handson experience in oil & gas maintenance organization in the following fields is preferred:
  • Riskbased processes such as ReliabilityCentered Maintenance
  • RiskBased Maintenance
  • Totally Productive Maintenance
  • Spare parts and general materials procurement strategies
  • Maintenance techniques and programs
  • Bestinclass Maintenance Planning Scheduling and work prioritization
  • Maintenance budgeting and spending control methods
  • Field maintenance methodology