Instrumentation Engineer – Facility Maintenance (Saudi Arabia) (Saudi Arabia) Dhahran

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field and possess at least 12 years of industrial instrumentation experience. Proven expertise in PLC/DCS systems, calibration, and maintenance of industrial sensors is essential for this role.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Instrumentation Engineer to join our Mechanical Services Shops team, responsible for rotating and static equipment repair and component fabrication.
The successful candidate will ensure the accuracy, reliability, availability, and lifecycle integrity of instrumentation across industrial machinery and facility systems. The role involves instrument engineering, calibration, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, commissioning, and continuous improvement of instrumentation and control systems.
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.
Minimum Requirements
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.
Preferred Qualifications
ISA CCST or CAP certification.
Vendor-specific DCS/PLC training.
Vibration instrumentation training.
ISO/IEC 17025 metrology training.

Responsibilities

The Instrumentation Engineer will manage the lifecycle integrity, calibration, and maintenance of instrumentation across industrial machinery and facility systems. They are responsible for troubleshooting faults, developing preventive maintenance strategies, and overseeing commissioning activities to ensure operational reliability.

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