Piping Specialist - Engineering Services - Relocate to Saudi Arabia

Title: Piping Specialist

Job Req ID: 16468

Description: Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities 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.

Position Description

We are seeking a Piping Specialist to join the Piping & Valve Group under Equipment Consulting Services Department (ECSD).

ECSD provides Saudi Aramco and Joint Ventures with effective specialized engineering consultations and introduces viable technologies and maintains quality standards.

As a Piping Specialist your primary role is to provide operation and project support, technical consultations and maintains standards on issues related to piping and pipelines.

Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Preform project review to evaluate standard compliance, design basis of Piping and Pipelines.
• Support Operation related piping, and assessment of operation.
• Conduct Fitness for services analysis of piping and piping components
• Support in Standard Management for SAES, SAEP, SABP and 04-SAMSSs related to Piping and Pipelines
• Determine the design pressure, design temperature, the material (allowable stress), and the diameter of the pipe.
• Review and determine the maximum span of piping layout and the rating of different piping components (flange, fittings)
• Perform review on free span and on-bottom analysis using the criteria used when analyzing Submarine Free Spans
• Act as a technical advisor and provide timely operational support to Saudi Aramco’s organizations
• Lead Technology evaluation of latest development in Piping systems.
• Conduct and review Stress analysis and other special studies.
• Review of Pipeline Integrity programs
• Perform Plant assessment and witnessing of local manufacturing activities such as design, fabrication, assembly & testing of piping components.
• Develop ideas for major technical studies or projects to be carried out by less senior engineers.

Minimum requirements

As the successful candidate you will have:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 20 years of experience in Oil and Gas
• Experienced with initiating & review of BOM, PMS, ISS and SIS, PID and ISO.
• Experienced with Piping Technical Specification, Hydrotest diagram, Hottapping calculations, & approval, technical bid evaluations, deviations assessment, code compliance.
• Aware to the different types of piping materials, selection philosophy, and types of connections,
• Familiar with design codes related to piping and valves (ASME, ASTM, API, MSS-SP, AWWA, Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards etc.), allowable stresses required for the design case
• Competent to read and review hydrotest diagrams, procedure and review of required code test values
• Familiar with engineering design software such as Stress Analysis and FEA
• Experienced with project phases, and review cycles of piping and valves, wall thickness calcs
• Familiar with different types of materials properties & types of inspections (NDEs), including nonmetallic and elastomers

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.

Country/Region: SA