Title: Corrosion Engineer
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with 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 experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.
Overview
We are seeking a Corrosion (Plant/Pipeline/asset integrity) Engineer to join the Southern Area Asset Integrity Division (SAAID) of SAOP Technical Support Department.
The Southern Area Asset Integrity Division is responsible for providing effective and proactive corrosion management support to safeguard assets while adopting best industry practices and cutting-edge technologies.
The Corrosion Engineer primary role is to perform integrity and corrosion analysis studies to assess current challenges and develop a mitigation plan by implementing cost effective solutions and deployment of advanced and proven technologies to prevent or significantly reduce the impact of corrosion.
Key Responsibilities
As a successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Benchmarking and implementation of strategies that will enhance the long-term reliability and assets efficiency of our assets.
- Research and deploy emerging Technologies related to corrosion mitigation and non-metallic deployment.
- Act as expert corrosion and asset integrity management resource for corrosion risk assessment and mitigation
- Develop Pipeline Integrity Plans (PIP) aligned with the organization integrity performance objectives, assigning responsibilities, and timeframes for the responsible stakeholder.
- Review PIP trends and initiate detailed engineering studies accordingly
- Ensure Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) exceedances are addressed by the relevant process owners and track recommendations.
- Facilitate the investigation of corrosion failure and deploy lesson learned from the root cause analysis to the system to avoid reoccurrence.
- Coordinate the updating of pipeline integrity risk register and ensure timely review upon occurrence of incidents in industry or other similar facilities to reflect that in the risk register and identify the applicable pipelines.
- Perform periodical analytical study of assessment findings to overcome challenging inspection programs
- Provide consultation on specialized area related to corrosion control.
- Monitor the corrosion parameters such as: pH, O2, bacteria, residual of biocide chemical, and take corrective actions accordingly.
- Review the inspection data and make corrosion control recommendations/reports accordingly.
- Apply corrosion mitigation measures such as: cleaning scraping, chemical injection, corrosion coupons, coating application to prevent / minimize the corrosion threats.
Minimum Requirements
As a successful candidate you will hold a:
- Bachelor’s degree In Mechanical Engineering or related Engineering from an accredited university.an advanced degree is a plus.
- Minimum of 15 years-experience in corrosion engineering, including at least three years as senior corrosion engineer.
- Practical experience through entry-level positions or corrosion engineering roles in industries such as: oil and gas, aerospace, chemical processing, marine, or infrastructure.
- Comprehensive knowledge of corrosion principles, including: electrochemistry, material properties, corrosion mechanisms, and corrosion prevention methods
- Background in various laboratory and field-testing techniques used to assess corrosion behavior, such as: accelerated corrosion testing, electrochemical corrosion monitoring, and non-destructive testing methods.
- Familiarity with corrosion prevention and control strategies, including material selection, protective coatings, cathodic protection, corrosion inhibitors, and corrosion monitoring systems is a requirement
- Understanding of industry standards and codes related to corrosion, such as NACE International standards, ASTM International standards, and API (American Petroleum Institute) standards.
- Awareness about the latest advancements in corrosion science and technologies through professional development courses, certifications, workshops, conferences, and memberships in relevant industry organizations.
- Familiarity with Corrosion Engineering standards within Saudi Aramco & international standards as well, such as AMPP (NACE), ASME & ASTM.
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.