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.

We are seeking for a Corrosion Engineer to join the Riyas Engineering Division which is part of the NGL Fractionation Department (RNGLFD).

The Riyas Engineering Division is responsible for two trains, each designed to process 255 MBOD (242.25 MBCD). Each train will include fractionation units, C3 & C4 treatment, C3 & C4 dehydration and propane refrigeration. The common facilities will include feed and product surge storage, chemicals storage and utilities including, but not limited to, steam and condensate recovery systems, utility water, plant, instrument air and nitrogen systems, machinery cooling water, drainage and flare systems. Some of the systems (e.g., steam headers, flare headers, product storage) have been pre-invested for the future train.

As a Corrosion Engineer your primary responsibility will be to implement, support and continually improve RNGLFP inspection corrosion management programs and provide consolatory advice in materials ensuring cost effective material selection and corrosion mitigation strategies, which will ensure mechanical integrity of the materials, applied on all plant assets including equipment and piping through their life cycle.

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

• Implement corrosion management program and on-stream monitoring, conduct risk-based inspection (RBI) based on API-580 methodology and company requirements, review and approve recommend solutions for coating failures and cathodic protection, and participate in HAZOP review sessions and ensure that all issues are addressed.
• Manage water treatment programs and recommend solutions to overcome challenges, review design packages and validate materials selection based on current code and standards, and validate corrosion controls, corrosion loops and corrosion damage mechanisms frequently.
• Assess feed composition changes and approve recommend solution to assure assets integrity, develop scope and description of technology items, and lead field implementation. Develop and transfer knowledge about use of coating, cathodic protection, corrosion inhibitors and other corrosion controls and best practices, extract data and draw conclusions from Corrosion Monitoring Technologies, and troubleshoot corrosion problems and address their root causes.
• Review design packages for plant changes and modifications to address corrosion and material challenges and explore new materials development and deploy advanced material application to address plant corrosion challenges.
• Perform special studies in corrosion control. Evaluates data as to scope, impact and long-range cost effectiveness on existing and new projects and review operations and monitoring activities to identify needed system modifications or procedural changes associated with corrosion control with conduct corrosion mitigation and integrity review to optimize the inspection and corrosion programs and maintain assets integrity.
• Perform regular reviews and provide update on the plants units Corrosion Control Documents (CCD’s) reflecting the any change that resulted from plant changes either in plant operation or facility modifications. Corrosion loops drawings shall be updated by adding emerging damage mechanisms or removing damage mechanisms because of plant upgrades.
• Share corrosion knowledge, experience, and train engineers.

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline from an accredited university. An advanced degree is preferred.
• (15) years of experience in processing in Oil / Gas Industry, material science and metallurgy, different Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) technology and their applications and knowledge in engineering aspect of welding, including working experience in running asset integrity programs in petroleum or petrochemical operating facility.
•  Need to have the ability to look at asset integrity programs in holistic way and drive their performance.
• Strong knowledge of the international standards and codes NACE, ASME, API and ASTM especially inspection and corrosion standards such as API-571, API-579, API-580, API-570 and API-510. 
• Hold a valid NACE Specialist Certification or NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist or combination of NACE Corrosion Technologist, API-571 and NACE CP level II.
• Must have excellent presentation skills to share knowledge with others and present business cases to managements.

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.