Job Description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the worlds 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 Aramcos 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 Kingdoms 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.

Position Description

We are seeking a Materials Engineering Specialist to join The Material Engineering Unit under Material Consulting Services Department.

The Materials Engineering Unit is responsible in providing technical support to plant operations, new projects activities, standardization, purchasing, manufacturers, and maintaining company standards up to date on issues related to metallurgical and welding.

As a Materials Engineering Specialist your primary role is to provide operational support to upstream and downstream facilities including oil/gas wells, pipelines, gas plants, refineries, terminals and capital programs

Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Provide consultation to field operations and projects of Saudi Aramco upstream facilities, pipelines, refineries, gas plants and terminals


• Resolve materials technical problems for operating facilities and SA projects.


• Participate in incident investigation studies


• Conduct metallurgical failure analyses to determine root causes and recommend corrective actions to prevent recurrence.


• Provide material selection recommendations based on standards and technical information.


• Evaluate materials technologies for applicability on Saudi Aramco facilities


• Perform materials testing, evaluation & selection


• Review of project design packages for material selection


• Support other SA standard committees to resolve materials related issues.


• Teach TSPA courses in materials Selection and failure Analysis

Minimum Requirements

As the successful candidate you will have:

• Bachelor degree in Metallurgy amd Materials Engineering. Advance degree is highly desirable


• Minimum of 20 years of experience in materials engineering, fabrication, materials selection and failure analysis.


• ability to work in multidisciplinary, multicultural groups and be able to pursue work independently


• Experience in mentoring local staff and providing training/teaching programs


• Have a general engineering consultancy experience and capability focusing on failure analysis, materials selection, equipment & piping fabrication, providing support to Saudi Aramco operations, capital programs and occasionally to Joint Venture operations.


• Knowledge of refinery processes and gas plant operations

Job Post Duration

Job posting start date: 08/19/2025

Job posting end date: 12/31/2025

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 worlds 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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