Title: Process Engineer - Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU) and Sour Water Stripper (SWS)
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Overview
We are seeking a Process Engineer with an experience in Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU) and Sour Water Stripper (SWS) to join our Ras Tanura Refinery Engineering Dept (RTRED).
RTRED is responsible for providing support and overseeing the performances of our Ras Tanura Refinery.
Your primary role will be to provide process engineering and operations expertise to monitor, optimize, and drive performance improvement programs for our refineries’ SRU, SWS & Tail Gas Treatment Units (TGTU), including remote and field technical advisory support, benchmarking, and SRU, SWS & TGTU technology knowledge management and exchange. You will drive the performance improvement programs which enhance process safety, optimize manufacturing cost, and increase plant reliability.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Review and monitor the performances of existing SRU, SWS & TGTU facilities through key performance indicators (KPIs) representing the process plant’s optimum operability, profitability, reliability, and process safety. You will then issue detailed reports to recommend changes supported by simulation models’ results to optimize unit operation.
- Lead unit operation troubleshooting and investigating off-spec. products and plant trips/ upsets and manage the required deliverables. Support Operations during turnaround and unplanned Shutdowns / Startups by understanding the unit operating conditions and transient effects to recommend operations improvements.
- Perform specific tasks such as, but not limited to catalyst/ evaluation, test runs, de-bottlenecking studies, due-diligence assessment, enhancement studies, HAZOP studies.
- Issue monthly SRU, SWS & TGTU performance reports highlighting the KPI’s, analysis, and performance improvement recommendations.
- Monitor and support the facilities in implementing the recommendations and closing the gaps identified in the quarterly performance reports.
- Manage long and short-term projects by proposing major projects to improve safety, reliability and profitability. Prepare design request, budget justifications and detailed implementation plans for economically justifiable projects. Also, develop detailed engineering process design packages for in-house process-oriented projects and follow up on implementation.
- Participate in incident investigation activities concerning SRU, SWS & TGTU process technologies.
- Ensure environmental and safety awareness effectiveness with work closely with the facility Safety and Environment management to improve safety and achieve highest environmental standards.
- Liaise with vendors and technology licensors for process enhancements and changes.
- Serve as technical mentor/ advisor to enhance the technical knowledge of the engineers through practical field discussions, demonstrations and/or simulations using available engineering aids.
Minimum Requirements
- You must hold a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering or related specialization. An advanced degree is preferred.
- You should have a minimum of 15 years of total refinery or gas plants process unit experience (process engineering and operations) with at least 10 years’ experience in handling SRU, SWS and/or TGTU plants.
- Exposure to different SRU/TGTU process licensor technologies is a plus.
- Certified PHA/HAZOP leader.
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest 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.