Rotating Equipment Mechanical Engineer – SME – Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Act as technical authority during RCM, FMEA, and reliability workshops; define equipment functions, performance standards, and functional failures.
• Identify failure modes, mechanisms, and degradation processes; evaluate safety, environmental, production, and maintenance-cost consequences.
• Review equipment history, bad actor reports, vibration data, oil analysis, and inspection findings.
• Recommend maintenance strategies and assess intervals based on criticality, failure characteristics, and operating context.
• Review OEM guidance and industry practices; support root cause analysis for recurring failures.
• Validate maintenance tasks and spare-parts requirements; identify reliability improvements and design enhancements.
• Provide guidance on risk mitigation and equipment lifecycle management.

Equipment and technical knowledge

• Equipment knowledge includes compressors, steam and gas turbines, centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps, gearboxes, fans, blowers, electric motors, couplings, mechanical and dry gas seals, bearings, lubrication systems, and hydraulic systems.
• Technical knowledge includes rotor dynamics, vibration analysis, machinery diagnostics, bearing failure analysis, lubrication and tribology, shaft alignment, rotor balancing, and mechanical seal reliability.
• Relevant API standards include API 610, 617, 618, 670, 612, 614, and 682.
• Maintenance methods include predictive, condition-based, preventive, failure-finding, and run-to-failure strategies.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• At least 8 years of experience in rotating equipment maintenance, reliability, asset management, or machinery engineering.
• Hands-on experience with compressors, turbines, pumps, motors, and auxiliary systems.
• Proven participation in RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RCA, or reliability improvement programs.
• Familiarity with SAP PM.
• Candidates must have relevant and verifiable experience.

Salary

• The description gives conflicting gross monthly salary ranges: SAR 8,000–10,000 plus HRA and TA in the opening, and SAR 11,000–14,000 later, depending on experience and suitability.
• Candidates without previous RCM experience are stated to be considered at the minimum gross salary.

Submission documents

• Candidate documents are requested together in one PDF, including an updated CV, educational qualification certificates, relevant experience certificates, and passport copy.