Instrumentation Engineer - Facility Maintenance (Saudi Arabia)

Key Responsibilities

• Instrumentation Engineering: Specify, evaluate, and maintain pressure, temperature, flow, level, vibration, speed, position, force, torque, gas, and analytical instruments.
• Calibration and Metrology: Develop calibration plans, establish tolerances and intervals, maintain traceability, document calibration results, and assess out-of-tolerance conditions.
• Troubleshooting and Maintenance: Diagnose faults involving sensors, transmitters, wiring, grounding, signal conditioning, I/O systems, instrument loops, networks, alarms, and protection systems.
• Controls and Commissioning: Prepare instrument datasheets, loop diagrams, hook-ups, cause-and-effect documentation, calibration procedures, FAT/SAT plans, loop checks, and commissioning records.
• Asset and Change Management: Maintain instrument registers, critical spares, configuration backups, calibration history, obsolescence plans, bypass controls, Management of Change (MOC) records, and contractor quality documentation.
• Reliability Improvement: Develop preventive-maintenance strategies, investigate recurring failures, implement corrective actions, and ensure compliance with applicable engineering and safety standards.
• Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation, Control Systems, Electrical, Electronics, Automation, or Mechatronics Engineering from a recognized and approved program.
• Minimum 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience, including at least 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.
• Hands-on experience with PLC/DCS I/O, HART or fieldbus devices, loop checking, alarm and trip systems, instrument networks, and OEM machine interfaces.
• Proven ability to develop calibration and preventive-maintenance plans, troubleshoot recurring failures, and manage instrument configurations.

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• ISA CCST or CAP certification.
• Vendor-specific DCS/PLC training.
• Vibration instrumentation training.
• ISO/IEC 17025 metrology training.