Reservoir 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 an experienced Reservoir Engineer to join the Upstream Professional Development Center (UPDC).

The UPDC is a corporate university that develops and delivers professional development courses to Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists. 

This role requires extensity industry experience and technical expertise in reservoir engineering, working with business line SMEs to develop and deliver training courses to Saudi Aramco reservoir engineers.  The position requires experience in mentoring and/or training professionals.

You will work within a team of technical advisors with broad experiences and specialties covering all Upstream disciplines to develop and deliver professional development programs targeting Saudi Aramco Upstream professionals of all experience levels.

Your primary role will be to develop and deliver Reservoir Engineering training programs and work closely with UPDC technical advisors from other disciplines in the development of multidisciplinary training programs.

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

•  Enhance Reservoir Engineering (RE) curricula targeting all RE professional.

• Develop technical content including but not limited to: existing RE-catalog curriculum, new courses, and E-learning delivery courses as needed.

• Participate in delivering upstream professional onboarding program.

• Develop and deliver RE curriculum courses per area of expertise.

• Perform administrative duties for RE job family including developing course schedules each year.

•  Working with training coordinators to enroll participants.

• Meet with technical experts from the organization to maintain curriculum, and work with contracting department to source industry experts to deliver vendor courses. 

• Required to collect and analyze post-course feedback to improve course content.

• As a successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering from a recognized approved program.  Other Engineering degrees combined with extensive industry experience in Reservoir Engineering will also be considered an advanced degree, (MSc) in Petroleum Engineering is preferred.

• You will have 15 years of industry experience in Reservoir Engineering, including 10 years or more recent active Reservoir Engineering technical roles that include mentoring of younger professionals.  

• You should have mastery in utilizing and teaching a variety of techniques, including numerical simulation, analytical modeling, and experimental analysis, to characterize the properties of the reservoir rocks and fluids, predict fluid flow and pressure behavior, and design optimal well placement, completion, and production strategies.

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.