Piping Specialist

Saudi Aramco

Company: Saudi Aramco
Skills: Piping Engineer , Piping Technician
Experience: 20 + Years
Education: Bachelors/3-5 yr Degree
Location: Saudi Arabia

Position Description

We are seeking a Piping Specialist to join the Piping & Valve Group under Equipment Consulting Services Department (ECSD).

ECSD provides Saudi Aramco and Joint Ventures with effective specialized engineering consultations and introduces viable technologies and maintains quality standards.

As a Piping Specialist your primary role is to provide operation and project support, technical consultations and maintains standards on issues related to piping and pipelines.

Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Preform project review to evaluate standard compliance, design basis of Piping and Pipelines.
• Support Operation related piping, and assessment of operation.
• Conduct Fitness for services analysis of piping and piping components
• Support in Standard Management for SAES, SAEP, SABP and 04-SAMSSs related to Piping and Pipelines
• Determine the design pressure, design temperature, the material (allowable stress), and the diameter of the pipe.
• Review and determine the maximum span of piping layout and the rating of different piping components (flange, fittings)
• Perform review on free span and on-bottom analysis using the criteria used when analyzing Submarine Free Spans
• Act as a technical advisor and provide timely operational support to Saudi Aramco's organizations
• Lead Technology evaluation of latest development in Piping systems.
• Conduct and review Stress analysis and other special studies.
• Review of Pipeline Integrity programs
• Perform Plant assessment and witnessing of local manufacturing activities such as design, fabrication, assembly & testing of piping components.
• Develop ideas for major technical studies or projects to be carried out by less senior engineers.

Minimum requirements

As the successful candidate you will have:

• Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum of 20 years of experience in Oil and Gas
• Experienced with initiating & review of BOM, PMS, ISS and SIS, PID and ISO.
• Experienced with Piping Technical Specification, Hydrotest diagram, Hottapping calculations, & approval, technical bid evaluations, deviations assessment, code compliance.
• Aware to the different types of piping materials, selection philosophy, and types of connections,
• Familiar with design codes related to piping and valves (ASME, ASTM, API, MSS-SP, AWWA, Saudi Aramco Engineering Standards etc.), allowable stresses required for the design case
• Competent to read and review hydrotest diagrams, procedure and review of required code test values
• Familiar with engineering design software such as Stress Analysis and FEA
• Experienced with project phases, and review cycles of piping and valves, wall thickness calcs
• Familiar with different types of materials properties & types of inspections (NDEs), including nonmetallic and elastomers