Rotating Equipment Engineer
Aramco
Chicago, IL, 60290, USA
Chicago, IL, 60290, USA
- Engineering
- Full-time
- rotating equipment engineer
- mechanical engineering
- unconventional hydrocarbon production
The Rotating Equipment Engineer at Aramco provides technical expertise for the operation, maintenance, and upgrade of mechanical rotating equipment in unconventional hydrocarbon production facilities. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, engineering design, testing, commissioning, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. The role requires extensive experience in mechanical engineering, plant operations, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to optimize facility performance and support capital investment decisions.
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 Rotating Equipment Engineer to join our Unconventional Resources Producing Department (URPD) within the Unconventional Resources organization.
The Unconventional Resources Producing Department (URPD) is responsible for operating and maintaining Unconventional Resources (UR) surface facilities, ensuring the safe and efficient production of hydrocarbons. The department plays a critical role in the overall success of the UR program.
Your primary role is to provide professional advice and guidance regarding mechanical/rotating equipment systems, schemes, equipment, or techniques, facility designs, and solutions to operating and maintenance problems.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
Minimum requirements
As the successful candidate you will have:
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.
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 Rotating Equipment Engineer to join our Unconventional Resources Producing Department (URPD) within the Unconventional Resources organization.
The Unconventional Resources Producing Department (URPD) is responsible for operating and maintaining Unconventional Resources (UR) surface facilities, ensuring the safe and efficient production of hydrocarbons. The department plays a critical role in the overall success of the UR program.
Your primary role is to provide professional advice and guidance regarding mechanical/rotating equipment systems, schemes, equipment, or techniques, facility designs, and solutions to operating and maintenance problems.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Provide day-to-day technical support to Operations and Maintenance Units to troubleshoot and fix rotating equipment and mechanical systems.
- Develop engineering design packages for new installation and upgrade projects, including development of work scopes, calculations, and detailed technical specifications.
- Review Project Proposals and Detailed Designs packages for new facilities.
- Participate in the testing and commissioning of new facilities and Turnaround and Inspection (T&I).
- Update and maintain engineering documentation and drawings.
- Analyze system performance and find solutions for Energy saving.
- Ensure quality, cost-effective, and timely solutions to any upgrade.
- Test and pilot new technologies. Ensure full HSE Compliance.
- Report and analyze key performance indices.
- Develop and implement reliability programs.
- Make recommendations for technical/economic optimization of existing facilities. Lead feasibility/profitability studies for new facilities.
- Provide analysis, evaluation, and interpretation in support of projects, processes, and financing related to Saudi Aramco capital investment decisions.
Minimum requirements
As the successful candidate you will have:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university; a Master's degree is preferred.
- You will have 15 years of working experience, including 10 years of experience in industrial operation facilities, with a preference for experience in Shale gas facilities and Modular skids mounted units.
- You must be conversant and have working knowledge of industry codes and standards, such as ASME and API, including API-STD-610 and 617.
- You will have experience with: Creating/modifying PFDs and P&IDs, Troubleshooting and major repair of oil and gas rotating equipment, creating schematics and piping diagrams, conducting failure analysis and providing recommendations for failed rotating equipment, Rotating equipment and piping field Installation, Commissioning, and testing, Specifying piping and equipment layout.
- Capable of communicating with multidiscipline engineers to complete projects and have proven ability to communicate effectively with management at all levels within the organization.
- Able to spot and reconcile conflicting views and interests among different parts of the organization.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, able to communicate what are frequently complex technical, economic, and commercial concepts in a clear and succinct manner to individuals and groups from diverse professional backgrounds.
- Able to work effectively with the minimum of supervision on relatively unstructured tasks and be a hands-on person who will immediately command the professional respect of others who possess long-time practical experience of working in or serving the industry.
- A Professional Engineer (P.E.) or Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) license or registration will be desirable but is not essential.
- You will have a thorough understanding of plant operations, process technologies, supply and product logistics, business drivers, cost drivers, and feedstock sensitivities. In addition, you will have experience in mechanical design review, construction, commissioning, and testing activities for new shale gas facilities.
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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