Instrumentation Engineer-Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Relocation

This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia and offers a permanent full-time expatriate relocation package.

About the Role

We are seeking an Instrumentation Engineer to join our Technical Support Team under the Global Manufacturing Organization (GM). The Technical Support Team is a multi-disciplinary team focusing 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 instrument systems across multiple downstream facilities. You will also provide technical support on high-priority systems issues.

Responsibilities

• 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 instrument 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 troubleshooting activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in refining, oil and gas plants, or petrochemical industries.
• Proficiency in codes and standards in the oil and gas industry, such as API, BS, ISO, ASME, ANSI, IEC, ISA, and IEEE.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with field instrument types and applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About the Company

At Aramco, our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly. We work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. As a global energy company, we address some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, investing 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.

Aramco energizes the world economy and occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest upstream carbon intensities of any major producer. With significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world, alongside 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 of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility drives us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy we supply.