Asset Integrity Engineer

Our Client operates in the Oil and Energy industry, with its headquarters rooted strongly in Saudi Arabia. It has its branches spread to more than 50 countries, providing employment to more than 68,500 people all over the world. They fall under the Fortune 500 Companies. They are one of the world’s largest oil producers. They are constantly growing by creating new technologies through its Research and Development efforts and branch into new business lines through Investments and Acquisitions.

Responsibilities : 

• Provide the project’s management teams and operating facilities with guidance to establishing and safeguarding asset integrity throughout asset lifecycle (i.e., Design, Procurement and Construction, Operation and Maintenance and Decommissioning).
• Initiate or conducts special studies for improving facilities or operation; provides specialized technical service in recognized engineering fields; acts as consultant on complex engineering problems; designs and projects; coordinates or directs work of other engineers.
• Drive the implementation and improvement of an integrated medium to long-term AIMS for variety of asset types, including refineries, gas plants, GOSPs, LNG, terminals, and infield flow and trunk Lines.
• Define asset integrity and process safety targets and establish standards to sustain operational excellence.
• Provide direction to the development and implementation of AIMS.
• Evaluate and adopt industry best practices to benchmark our client AIMS against other international oil companies, taking into consideration the applicable regulations, codes, and standards.
• Strategize and formulate an assurance and reporting process, to confirm that technical integrity barriers remain fit for purpose.
• Participate in management steering committees to periodically review the asset integrity KPIs, SCEs Barriers performance standard verification, focused asset integrity reviews audit findings, and accident investigation findings.
• Benchmark and adapt lessons learned identified from internal and external events, provide recommendations to provide continuous assurance to management that the assurance methodology, applied to sustain the health of the SCEs and integrity barriers, is sufficient in mitigating potential threats arising from changes in major accident hazard scenarios.
• Strategize and drive the development and implementation of an effective technical integrity framework and communications infrastructure, through detailed analysis of design basis, operating envelopes (limits), and maintenance philosophies and strategies.
• Provide expert advice and assistance to Company organizations, outside vendors, manufacturers, and design firms on matters relating to AIMS.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams or with task forces assigned to analyze or solve specific integrity and performance degradation issues or failure analysis, and suggest methods for the prevention of chronic failures.

Requirements : 

• A Bachelor degree in engineering, preferably Mechanical, Material or Electrical. A master’s degree is desirable.
• Candidate must have strong technical capabilities and relevant experience with Asset Integrity Management practices.
• Certified as a fundamental Engineer (F.E.) license.
• A minimum of 10 years of professional experiences in the Oil and Gas business.
• Experienced in international standards related such as, ASME & API. 
• Has excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and networking skills. 
• Flexibility to travel both domestically and internationally.  
• Comfortable to work both independently and with cross-departmental teams.