Mechanical 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:

• Participate in refinery and petrochemical unit’s Flawless project delivery, stat up, Operation philosophy, and operation general instruction.  
• Provide technical support for petrochemical unit’s operation readiness, pre-commissioning and commissioning including start-up philosophy and spare part requirements 
• Participate in petrochemical unit’s Performance Acceptance Test (PAT), Reliability Availability Maintainability (RAM) study 
• Participate in standards reviews to assure inclusion of requirements that are of practical benefit to field operation and maintenance in regard to safety and efficiency of the plants. Provides guidance on standards development through technical committee participation. Interprets standards and recommends changes to reduce costs associated with overly stringent requirements
• Develop coherent piping, mechanical and rotating equipment data sheet, inspection test protocols, installation procedures, technology selection, spare part philosophy and design requirements 
• Provide technical support for engineering, construction, and commissioning of the Rotating Equipment activities including design and mechanical integrity 
• Develop and implements strategies and programs to enhance plant availability and to reduce operating and maintenance costs; this includes the application of new technology
• Participate in petrochemical unit’s process optimization and synergy between refinery and petrochemical
• Provide piping, mechanical and rotating equipment design review, assessments, RFI’s response, scope and technology evaluation
• Review and update refinery and petrochemical redline drawings  
• Provide technical support for capital projects involving petrochemical units at various stages of the project life cycle (pre-feasibility, feasibility, Pre-feed, feed basic design, detailed engineering and construction)
• Researching new technologies, regulations, and other factors that may affect business model and reliability 
• Strong experience in Refinery-Chemicals integration strategies, competitiveness and benchmarking  
• Conducting research on competitors to identify opportunities for new products
• Provide technical input to LP and economics modeling and capital efficiency.
• Provide insights and recommendations in the financial models output and ability to guide management to select the best configurations for LTC projects cases.
• Deliver the tools, templates and systems to ensure the safe, passionately and flawlessly delivery of the project.
• Liaison between Project Management and technical disciplines to achieve integration across all project disciplines. 
• Ensure scope, risk and interfaces are captured, manage Interfaces between internal and external parties and documented. 
• Interface regularly with equipment vendors to resolve current problems as well as introduce and apply new technologies
• Participation in all project studies such as HAZOP, SIL Study and HSSE
• Liaise with site to ensure suitability of rotating equipment technical selections for maintainability and operability 
• Assist in development, implementation and ensure quality and integrating process 
• Develop maintenance philosophy spare part and material cataloging  
• Update, review and evaluation of equipment access and layout for maintenance purposes
• Participate in and review updated Maintenance  staffing plans and budget estimates
• Interface with site maintenance organization to  update integrated Maintenance Strategy
• Develop Construction System Turnover plan for Project

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering preferred advanced degree.
• At least 15 years of experience with a focus in the Refining & Petrochemicals Operation.