Safety Engineer (Drilling & Workover Operations)

Saudi Aramco (ASC)

Your primary role is to provide daily support to upstream organizations to provide field and office safety support to manage safety in petroleum engineering, exploration, drilling and workover related activities, including unconventional resources and seismic operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate implementation of the Saudi Aramco Safety Management System, as well as its objectives and expectations, including developing associated safety processes, and participating in self-assessments.
• Inspect onshore and offshore drilling rigs, workover equipment, and other support facilities and have in-depth knowledge of well control equipment and procedures (i.e., attended Basic Well Control School).
• Identify, evaluate, recommend actions, and follow up on critical, yet universal safety tasks and control methodologies related to operational safety practices (e.g., work at height, isolation/LOTO, permit to work, hydrogen sulfide, confined space entry, excavations).
• Participate in safety studies/activities using risk assessment and mitigation methodologies, such as: PHAs, HAZOPs, JSAs, incident investigations, compliance reviews, or insurance surveys.
• Develop and/or review corporate safety standards, instructions and procedures related to upstream operations and formalize them into company-documented practices as required.
• Review designs of oil and gas field facilities for compliance with company and industry safety standards.
• Assist in the development of Emergency Response Plans for credible scenarios. Have a working knowledge of the Incident Command System (ICS). Attend emergency drills as observer and provide feedback.
• Respond to emergency situations and incidents, either during or after regular working hours, to provide technical assistance and advice.
• Support the reporting, classification and investigation all incidents, and participating in incident investigations, determination of root causes, and proper recommendations to prevent recurrence.
• Deliver Loss Prevention-specific training to employees, contractors, and outside parties.
• Mentor other LP personnel.