Downstream 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 an experienced Corrosion Engineer to join our Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME)organization under the Downstream Reliability Solutions Department (RSD).

The Reliability Solutions Department (RSD) provides engineering support to Saudi Aramco Global Manufacturing wholly owned and affiliates’ facilities (Refining, NGL Processing, and Petrochemicals). This includes reliability, inspection, corrosion management, static equipment, rotating equipment, electrical equipment, instrumentation and control support.

Your primary role as a Corrosion Engineer is to provide technical support to operating facilities, and the deployment of new technologies related to corrosion management. Developing and prioritizing value-adding programs aimed at enhancing the operational performance of the Saudi Aramco’s downstream assets. You will also conduct technical studies and analyses in specialized corrosion control fields, including cathodic protection, water treatment, chemical inhibition and materials selection.

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

• Conduct corrosion management assessments & studies, identifying corrosion issues and providing recommendations to mitigate them.
• Develop, and manage the GME Strategic value-driven programs roadmap.
• Deploy technologies related to corrosion management across the Global Manufacturing portfolio.
• Supports corrosion related failure investigations and publish lessons learned from RCAs to avoid reoccurrence.
• Provide consultancy to Global Manufacturing facilities during design, construction, operations and maintenance on matters pertaining to corrosion management.
• Review operations parameters to identify any required modifications to the operating philosophy and procedures to properly manage corrosion issues.
• Conduct corrosion mitigation and integrity review to optimize inspection and corrosion programs and maintain assets overall integrity.
• Review design packages and validate materials selection based on applicable codes and standards.
• Support conduction of risk-based inspection studies (RBIs) based on API-580 methodology.
• Investigate coating related failures and recommended sound, cost effective solutions.

• Support HAZOP review studies from corrosion management point of view.

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Metallurgical Engineering. An advanced degree is preferable.
• 15 years of experience in corrosion management, metallurgical sciences, and welding engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry’s “downstream sector”.
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of the various international standards and codes including NACE, ASME, API and ASTM with emphasis on corrosion and inspection codes such as API-571, API-580, API-570 and API-510.
• NACE Specialist certification, NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist certification or combination of NACE Corrosion Technologist, API-571 and NACE CP level II is preferable.
• Able to demonstrate fluency in English, oral and written.

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.