Traffic Safety 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 a Traffic Safety Engineer to join Traffic Safety Services Department.

Traffic Safety Services Department is responsible for promoting safe driving culture & enhance roads' safe driving experience, by providing best in class traffic safety services which contribute to the kingdom 2030 vision. 

Your primary role is to perform professional specialized transportation & traffic safety engineering tasks and participate in developing efficient and effective traffic safety initiatives, policies, and action plans for safer working and living environment within the company facilities. Position’s tasks would include but not limited to roadways design reviews, accidents investigation/analysis, road safety assessments, development of remedial countermeasures.

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

• Act as a technical lead to various traffic safety engineering related work tasks.
• Interface with company representatives & government authorities to address traffic and transportation safety improvements in the Eastern Province.
• Provide technical support to various internal & external entities to improve traffic mobility and traffic safety.
• Support proponents in developing projects scopes, project proposals, and schematics for packages related to roads and traffic safety improvements.
• Review and provide initial inputs on design & specifications of roadway schemes within and around company facilities utilizing applicable industry standards and guidelines.
• Participate in the efforts of developing initiatives and identifying areas of traffic safety improvements based on the international best practices and emerging technologies
• Participate on investigations of traffic accidents involving company employees and contractors within the company premises.
• Program, coordinate, and prioritize technical tasks activities and assign them to pertinent resources
• Enhance internal technical capacity by: establish proper training and develop efficient processes for knowledge sharing/transfer.

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree with emphasis on Transportation & Traffic Engineering is preferred.
• You must have 15 years of experience in Traffic Engineering & Transport Planning Studies, including at least 10 years in Traffic Safety-related projects.
• You must have technical proficiency in road design, transport planning & traffic safety studies. 
• You must be familiar with local & international standards & guidelines.
• Professional certification & licenses are a requirement.

• You will have the ability to conduct site visits & site assessment.  
• You must be able to use transportation/traffic analysis & simulation software’s
• Project management and resource planning knowledge is a requirement.
• You must be able to demonstrate outstanding written and verbal communication.

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.