Static Equipment Mechanical Engineer – SME (Yanbu, Saudi Arabia)

About the role

The company is seeking a Static Equipment Mechanical Engineer (SME) to provide technical expertise for Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), FMEA/FMECA and reliability studies on static equipment in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. The role focuses on identifying equipment functions, degradation mechanisms and developing maintenance strategies to ensure asset integrity and compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the technical authority for static equipment during RCM, FMEA, RBI and reliability workshops.
• Define equipment functions, performance standards and identify credible failure modes and damage mechanisms.
• Evaluate consequences of failures on safety, environment, production and asset integrity.
• Recommend and develop maintenance and inspection strategies such as RBI, preventive, condition‑based and run‑to‑failure approaches.
• Support root cause failure analysis and validate maintenance tasks and integrity management programs.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Metallurgical Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in static equipment integrity, inspection, reliability or maintenance engineering within refinery, petrochemical, oil & gas or heavy‑industrial facilities.
• Hands‑on experience with RCM, FMEA/FMECA, RBI, RCFA and asset integrity programs.
• Familiarity with SAP PM and relevant industry standards (API, ASME).

Required skills

• Pressure equipment, vessels, reactors, separators, heat exchangers, boilers, fired heaters, storage tanks and related piping systems.
• Asset Integrity Management, Risk‑Based Inspection (API 580/581), Pressure Vessel Inspection (API 510), Tank Inspection (API 653), Piping Inspection (API 570), Fitness for Service (API 579).
• Corrosion engineering, materials engineering, non‑destructive testing (NDT) and damage mechanism reviews.
• Reliability engineering methodologies including RCM and FMEA.
• Use of SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) module.