Purpose

To provide Mechanical Engineering support to the operations and maintenance teams during the entire lifecycle of the plant’s major equipment, analyzing their performances, operative conditions and boundaries, in order to guarantee reliable and safe operations of all facilities under JIGPC in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. 

Nature & Scope

Properly functioning equipment and systems are critical to the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the plant. As a member of the Plant Reliability Engineering team, the Mechanical Engineer will interact routinely with plant operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel to provide “hands-on” field-engineering & troubleshooting support, instructions, and technical guidance related to the site’s static and rotating equipment & machinery. The position emphasizes teamwork, communications, organization, change management, work process optimization, planning, leadership, and hands-on technical skills with comprehensive knowledge across engineering disciplines. 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Safety

• Provide & maintain a safe work environment for self & others. Employ good housekeeping methods and demonstrate leadership with all company & industry safe work processes to prevent injuries.

Engineering:

• Lead and facilitate Root Cause Analysis and event investigations
• Guide and train team members in the conduct of simple event investigations that do not require complex RCA
• Calculate and report asset reliability KPIs, analyze gaps and generate action plans to close gaps
• Provide technical support to the maintenance team to enhance preventive maintenance strategies and checks, along with predictive maintenance strategies and operation-based maintenance checks
• Facilitate and manage all reliability programs
• Develop asset life strategies
• Utilize knowledge and familiarity with the international standards in order to improve the equipment performance.
• Implement the best-in-class solutions as foreseen by international standards and other internal company standards.
• Participate in efficiency improvement initiates and upgrading programs
• Propose changes in operating modes, or technological improvement, or maintenance strategies implementation, in order to support the company vision of continuous improvement through collaboration and people conversation