Process Engineer
Chicago, IL, United States
- Engineering
- Full-time
- Process Engineer
- Sulfur Recovery Unit
- Chemical Engineering
The Process Engineer at Aramco specializes in managing and optimizing Sulfur Recovery Units within the Jafurah Gas Plant Engineering Division. The role involves process design modifications, simulation modeling, performance testing, safety assessments, and providing technical support to operations and maintenance teams. The position requires extensive experience in process engineering, knowledge of industry standards, and proficiency with software such as Aspen HYSYS.
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.
Overview
We are seeking a Process Engineer specializing in Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU) to join Jafurah Gas Plant Engineering Division (JGPED) within Jafurah Gas Plant Department (JGPD).
JGPED is responsible for Processing Feed gas and producing Sales Gas, Condensate, and C2+NGL.
Your primary role is to manage and handle the operations of Sulfur Recovery Units (SRU).
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Handle process activities such as studies and design modification in the operating facilities and develop simulation models for assigned operation facilities.
- Develop & review and/or validate plant mass balances and check plant performance to ensure it is running up to its design.
- Use the software simulation programs such as HYSYS and flow assurance.
- Formulate and implement long-term strategies to improve operations and reduce costs.
- Lead groups of engineers in the shutdown and startup phase of existing plants and participate in standards reviews to assure inclusion of requirements that are of practical benefit to field operation and maintenance in regard to safety and efficiency of the plant.
- Provide guidance on standards development through technical committee participation. Interprets standards and recommenced changes to reduce costs associated with overly stringent requirements.
- Lead unit performance and capacity tests and prepare testing procedures.
- Conduct risk assessment and process equipment performance test.
- Lead Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Hazard and Operability (HAZOP), Energy optimization/conservation and process &equipment optimization & feasibility studies.
- Develop implementation plan for critical recommendation and perform management of change (MOC)
- Verify system operations and performance after implementing the recommendation.
- Provide day to day technical support to operation and maintenance teams, to troubleshoot and fix process equipment.
- Review project proposals and detailed design packages for new and/or existing facilities and enhance Operations Instruction Manuals (OIM).
Minimum requirements
As the successful candidate you will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from a recognized and approved program.
- You should have a minimum of 10 to 15 years of professional engineering experience in Sulfur Recovery.
- Confident with engineering and design principles related to process engineering.
- Experience in process engineering and design applications.
- Able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of industry standards and procedures, such as American Petroleum Institute (API) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) codes.
- Required to support the review of company standards, projects reviews and implementation of plant modifications to process systems.
- Experience with creating Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) & Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), troubleshooting process equipment and system failures, including pumps, compressors, pipe line/ piping and dehydration systems and Knowledge of Aspen HYSIS and other process simulation software is required.
- Able to conduct a failure analysis, and provide recommendations for failed process systems and sequence of event reporting.
Work Location and Work Schedule
Work location: Within Saudi Arabia – To be specified in Job offer
Work schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer
Job Posting Duration:
Job posting start date: 12/15/2025
Job posting end date: 12/15/2026
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.
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