Facilities Planning Specialist

Job Req ID: 5122- Description:

- **Aramco energizes the world economy.**

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity 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 Aramco’s 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 Kingdom’s 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.

**Overview**:
We seek an experienced facilities planning specialist to join our Unconventional Resources Engineering & Project Management Department/facilities planning team. The facilities planning team is responsible for gas processing and handling facilities and for planning and development of future unconventional gas development projects to meet the Kingdom’s domestic energy demand.
Facilities Planning group is responsible for the development and coordination of the capital program development for unconventional resources. The Facilities Planning group is responsible for coordinating and planning for new facilities and major modification of existing facilities in support of unconventional gas development program, and assists in the technical development and economic justification of its Capital Programs and Budgets.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Conduct feasibility studies on major additions/upgrade to gas processing and NGL facilities
- Perform evaluations required to establish and support long term business strategies related to gas and NGL facilities
- Supervises and coordinates overall planning, control and appraisal of the project as defined by the approved scope.
- Prepare conceptual designs
- Prepare written project justifications for presentation to executive/Corporate Management
- Supervises, coordinates and directs preparation of the budget briefs, budget estimates, expenditure requests, economic analysis and authorization for expenditure.
- Prepare scoping papers to define capital projects covering gas processing and NGL facilities
- Develop facilities/fields master plans
- Interface with operating organizations, engineering, project management and corporate planning
- Experience in process simulations
- Conduct studies to confirm the scoping requirements and justification for major gas investments.
- Perform system and economic evaluations of existing and potential new gas processing and NGL facilities
- Direct evaluation of major and NGL facilities as performed by others
- Prepare and make presentations Corporate Management on gas processing and NGL operations issues
- Supervises and coordinates planning to adjust to unanticipated changes in scope, materials and equipment delivery and cost.
- Mentor young facilities planning engineers for future development to Facilities Planning Consultants positions.

**Minimum Requirements**:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering preferred Mechanical, Electrical or Chemical or equivalent technical field. 15+ Years professional experience - at least 10 years in gas processing and NGL and preferred experience in the field of Shale Gas.

**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 world’s biggest technical, logístical 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.
- Country/Region: SA