Corrosion Engineer

Saudi Aramco

We are seeking a corrosion engineer to join the Southern Area Asset Integrity Division (SAAID) of SAOP Technical Support Department.

SAAID is responsible for providing effective and proactive corrosion management support to safeguard assets while adopting best industry practices and cutting-edge technologies.

Your primary role is to perform integrity and corrosion analysis studies to assess current challenges and develop a mitigation plan by implementing cost effective solutions and deployment of advanced and proven technologies to prevent or significantly reduce the impact of corrosion. This is to be supported with benchmarking and implementation of strategies that will enhance the long-term reliability and assets efficiency of our assets.

Key Responsibilities:

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

• Perform periodical analytical study of corrosion assessment findings to overcome challenging inspection programs
• Research and Deploy emerging Technologies related to corrosion mitigation and non-metallic deployment.
• Act as expert corrosion and asset integrity management resource for corrosion risk assessment and mitigation.
• Develop Pipeline Integrity Plans (PIP) aligned with the organization integrity performance objectives, assigning responsibilities, and timeframes for the responsible stakeholder.
• Develop annual condition assessment schedule in line with the PIP recommendations.
• Review PIP trends and initiate detailed engineering studies accordingly (e.g. increase in internal corrosion features, encroachment to pipelines, low quality of ILI reports, failure investigations, etc.)
• Facilitate the investigation of corrosion failure and deploy lesson learned from the root cause analysis to the system to avoid reoccurrence.
• Perform periodical analytical study of assessment findings to overcome challenging inspection programs.
• Evaluate the QA findings and perform periodical analytical study of assessment findings to overcome challenging inspection programs.
• Provide consultation on specialized area related to corrosion control.
• Perform integrity and corrosion analysis studies to assess current challenges.
• Monitor the corrosion parameters such PH, O2, bacteria, residual of biocide chemical, and take corrective actions accordingly.
• Review the inspection data and make corrosion control recommendations/reports accordingly.
• Review laboratory data/parameters and issue the recommendations accordingly.
• Apply corrosion monitoring system/program to ensure the integrity & reliability of the plant assets.