Job Code SMP285
  • Saudi Arabia

Facility Maintenance Specialists-Instrumentation Engineer-Engineer-Facility Maintenance

SMP opportunity with Saudi Aramco

Jobs Description

Overview

We are seeking an Instrumentation Engineer to join our Mechanical Services Shops. Mechanical Services Shops is responsible for providing rotating and static equipment repair and fabrication of components.

Your primary role is to ensure the accuracy, availability, and lifecycle integrity of machine and facility instrumentation. You will engineer, maintain, calibrate, troubleshoot, and improve sensors, transmitters, analyzers, control loops, protection devices, data-acquisition systems, and their interfaces with production and utility systems.

Minimum requirements

·         You will hold a Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronics, Automation, or Mechatronics Engineering from a recognized and approved program.

·         You will have at least 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including a minimum of 7 years maintaining and commissioning instrumentation for manufacturing equipment and facility systems.

·         Strong knowledge of industrial sensors, transmitters, analyzers, vibration and speed probes, control valves, data acquisition, signal standards, grounding, and calibration is required.

·         Experience with PLC/DCS I/O, HART or fieldbus devices, loop checking, alarm and trip systems, instrument networks, and OEM machine interfaces is necessary.

·         Demonstrated ability to develop calibration and preventive-maintenance strategies, troubleshoot recurring failures, and control instrument configuration is required.

·         ISA CCST or CAP, vendor DCS/PLC, vibration instrumentation, and ISO/IEC 17025 metrology training are preferred.

JAL International About JAL

JAL International is a fully Saudi-owned company with over 35 years of experience in plant maintenance, construction, manufacturing, and industrial services, making a significant contribution to the Kingdom's industrial and infrastructure development.

Through continuous and transparent communication with its clients, JAL has earned their trust by providing solutions that have enhanced their operational and technical processes, in addition to maintenance and project management services. This success is based on its unwavering commitment to quality, safety, and excellence, delivered by its highly qualified team. JAL owns two manufacturing facilities, one in Jubail and the other in the Second Industrial City in Dammam. These facilities are equipped for assembly, systems integration, testing, and maintenance services, serving key sectors including oil and gas, petrochemicals, energy, utilities, fertilizers, and mining.

With more than 24 years of experience in supporting Saudi Aramco projects, JAL provides a wide range of SMP (Supplemental Manpower Program) opportunities. These opportunities include positions in engineering, safety, finance, business management, and many other professional fields.

JAL International is headquartered in Al-Khobar in the Eastern Province, and the company's management ensures that all its branches throughout Saudi Arabia are strategically located close to its clients.

Benefits Offered

Competitive Basic Salary + Overbase.

Adequate Health Insurance.

Annual Leave & Public Holidays.

Annual Flight Tickets for Expats.

Education Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronics, Automation, or Mechatronics Engineering from a recognized and approved program.

Primary Responsibilities

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

·         Instrumentation Engineering: Specify and evaluate pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration, speed, position, force, torque, gas, electrical, and analytical instruments for machine and facility applications.

·         Calibration & Metrology: Develop calibration plans, ranges, tolerances, traceability, intervals, as-found/as-left records, uncertainty, and out-of-tolerance impact assessments for critical instruments.

·         Troubleshooting & Maintenance: Diagnose sensor, wiring, grounding, impulse-line, signal-conditioning, I/O, loop, network, data-acquisition, alarm, and protection-system faults and lead permanent corrective action.

·         Controls & Commissioning: Prepare datasheets, loop diagrams, hook-ups, cause-and-effect requirements, calibration procedures, FAT/SAT plans, loop checks, and commissioning records for new or modified systems.

·         Asset & Change Management: Maintain instrument indexes, spares, software/configuration backups, calibration history, obsolescence plans, bypass and override controls, MOC records, and contractor quality.

Jobs Position Information
  • Industry:
    Oil & Gas
  • Location
    Saudi Arabia
  • Jobs Type
    FULL TIME
  • Experience
    12+ years
  • Work Schedule
    48 Hours/Week
  • Date Posted
    0 days ago
  • End Date
    7th Nov 2026