Senior Piping Specialist - Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Expat

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This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia. It is a permanent full time Expat relocation package. Please note only referred candidates will be contacted.

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.

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, Hot tapping 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…