Static Equipment Mechanical Engineer – SME – Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

Role overview

Compensation

• The posting lists gross monthly salary of SAR 8,000–10,000 plus housing and transportation allowances, with candidates without prior RCM experience considered at the minimum gross salary.
• It also lists gross monthly salary of SAR 11,000–14,000 depending on experience and suitability.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for static equipment during RCM, FMEA, RBI, and reliability workshops; define equipment functions, performance standards, and functional failures.
• Identify credible failure modes, damage mechanisms, and deterioration processes; evaluate safety, environmental, production, and asset-integrity consequences.
• Review inspection history, thickness measurements, NDT reports, corrosion monitoring records, and failure history.
• Recommend RBI, preventive, condition-based, inspection-based, or run-to-failure maintenance strategies where applicable.
• Assess inspection frequencies and task intervals based on risk, degradation rates, and operating conditions.
• Review compliance with API, ASME, and applicable industry standards; support root cause analysis of failures and loss-of-containment events.
• Recommend equipment upgrades, repairs, and asset-life extension measures.
• Validate RCM maintenance tasks, inspection plans, and integrity management programs; support risk ranking and maintenance strategy selection.

Equipment and technical knowledge

• Equipment includes pressure vessels, reactors, separators, drums, columns and towers, heat exchangers, air coolers, boilers, and fired heaters.
• Other equipment includes atmospheric storage tanks, process and utility piping, pipelines, expansion joints, pipe supports, PRVs, PSVs, and rupture discs.
• Required technical knowledge includes asset integrity management; API 580/581, API 510, API 653, API 570, and API 579; corrosion and materials engineering; NDT; damage mechanism reviews; reliability engineering; and RCM and FMEA methods.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, materials, or metallurgical engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in static equipment integrity, inspection, reliability, or maintenance engineering.
• Experience in refinery, petrochemical, oil and gas, power generation, or heavy industrial facilities.
• Participation in RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RBI, RCFA, or asset integrity programs.
• Familiarity with SAP PM.
• Candidates must have relevant and verifiable experience.

Application documents

• Submit the CV, educational qualification certificates, relevant experience certificates, and passport copy together in one clear, complete PDF file.