Title:  Maintenance Engineering Specialist

Overview

We are seeking a Maintenance Engineering Specialist with various industry maintenance programs to join Asset Maintenance Solution Department (AMSD) under Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME)

AMSD provides specialized and timely maintenance engineering support to wholly-owned and affiliates’ refining and chemicals operating facilities, collectively known as Saudi Aramco Global Manufacturing.

The primary role is to provide technical expertise pertaining to the development, launching, and assessing of various maintenance programs, processes, procedures and best practices for Global Manufacturing facilities.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Develop maintenance processes, maintenance management strategy, work and performance management strategy and conduct Maintenance health assessment in line with GME and corporate requirements. This includes PM and PdM strategies, Org. structures, manpower analysis, cost analysis, etc., and appraise and prepare reports on the effectiveness of such processes.
• Conduct data driven analyses to benchmark maintenance organization’s performance to identify gaps then set sustainable plan to close the gaps, this includes, but not limited to: Spending Analysis, Maintenance Effectiveness, operating costs of existing assets, PM, and PdM, Wrench time analysis, SAP Taxonomy, Planning & Scheduling, Personnel Competency, Budgeting Strategy, Bad Actors, and RAM Modeling.
• Analyze facilities’ maintenance performance to establish reference baseline & Issue frequent maintenance benchmarking reports to promote knowledge.
• Review maintenance reporting mechanism and KPIs along with their trends to drive performance and provide recommendations accordingly.
• Analyze maintenance spending in terms of manpower, equipment, materials procurement and outsource strategies.
• Assist the line maintenance organizations in the implementation of approved programs such as TPRM or GM reliability model.
• Develop methods and programs for handling new situations in maintenance fields. This will include prototype pumps, motors, compressors, turbines, valves, instrument systems and computer systems.
• Design, in conjunction with engineering personnel and vendor representatives, alternative parts or systems.
• Represent AMSD on standing Committees, Special Task Groups or Ad Hoc Committees.
• Recommend work which can be economically assigned to contractor organizations and develops scope of work.
• Report to concerned Maintenance Supervisor & Manager on quality and quantity of workmanship and adherence to standards within his assigned areas and recommends improved work methods.
• Ensure that periodic maintenance is performed in accordance with vendor recommendations and Aramco procedures and that maintenance logs and records are maintained.
• Prepare Engineering Reports on maintenance activities/methods and means for their improvement.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from a recognized and approved program. A Mechanical Engineering Degree is preferred.
• 10 years of relevant experience in the Oil & Gas downstream Sector.
• Able to demonstrate high degree of technical competence in the area of maintenance programs and practices.
• Experience with risk-based processes such as Reliability-Centered Maintenance & Risk Based Maintenance
• Experience with Total Productive Maintenance
• Strong hands-on experience with Spare Parts and Materials procurement strategies
• You will have Best-in-class Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Work Prioritization experience
• Experience with Maintenance budgeting and spending control methodologies.
• Experience in field maintenance methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal & communication skills.
• Demonstrate strong analytical & problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate experience with Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) such as SAP
• Conversant with MS Office applications
• Demonstrate ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Demonstrate fluency in spoken and written English