Head of Asset Management & Reliability Refinery & Petrochemicals (Saudi Arabia)

Head of Asset Management & Reliability Refinery & Petrochemicals (Saudi Arabia) Reliability & Asset Management Manager Oil & Gas Downstream (Relocation to Saudi Arabia)Reliability Engineering · Asset Management · RCM · RCA · RBI · FMECA · RAM Study · SPOF · Bad Actor Management Enviar solicitud ABOUT THE ROLE We are recruiting the Head of Asset Management for a large-scale integrated refining and petrochemical complex on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia. The complex has recently completed a major operational and financial turnaround in which improved plant availability was the principal driver of the recovery which is precisely what this function owns. This is a technical authority and governance position within Engineering and Support. It is not a maintenance execution role. The successful candidate will define how the complex is maintained, chair the governance forums for the discipline, and report reliability performance directly to executive management. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Own asset criticality assessment across the complex, and the risk basis on which maintenance effort and budget are allocated. - Lead maintenance strategy development: RCM studies, FMEA and FMECA, and preventive maintenance programmes across rotating, static, electrical and instrumentation assets. - Develop maintenance procedures, job plans and task lists, and govern their revision. - Lead major root cause analysis investigations and own the RCA methodology applied on site. - Maintain and close out the bad actor and single point of failure (SPOF) registers. - Lead obsolescence management for control systems, instrumentation and long-lead equipment. - Define reliability KPIs and build the reliability monitoring and reporting system behind them. - Manage and implement reliability enhancement programmes at organisational level. - Own the asset management platform: its data governance, its integrity and its adoption across the site. - Act as Technical Authority for the discipline and as Governance Lead for its standards and deviations. - Interface with Operations, Maintenance, Inspection, Engineering and Turnaround leadership, and with executive management. MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS - Bachelor's degree in Engineering: Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Automation, Systems or Civil. - Minimum 20 years of experience in oil and gas downstream, refining or petrochemicals. - Demonstrated leadership of a Reliability, Asset Integrity, Asset Management or Maintenance Engineering department or section, with direct reports. - Reliability or asset management programmes led at organisational level, with measurable results. - Root cause analysis led personally, using structured methodologies such as Fault Tree Analysis, 5-Why or equivalent. - Working knowledge of RAM studies, asset criticality assessment, SPOF, bad actor management and FMEA/FMECA. - Experience developing and implementing preventive maintenance programmes for at least one asset class. - Professional working English. All interviews, governance forums and reporting are conducted in English. - Availability to relocate to Saudi Arabia on a residential basis. PREFERRED - Meridium or an equivalent asset performance management (APM) platform, implemented rather than only operated. - TapRooT certification or equivalent formal RCA credentials. - Recognised expertise in one or more of RCM, RBI, RIS or RCA. - Experience rebuilding a reliability function that had lost credibility with Operations. - CMRP, CRE or ISO 55001 credentials. LOCATION AND PACKAGE Residential position at the plant site, approximately two hours from Jeddah on the Red Sea coast. Tax-free expatriate package including housing, family medical insurance, education support, annual flights, relocation assistance and end-of-service benefit. Full details are confirmed with shortlisted candidates. SELECTION PROCESS Applications are reviewed against the mandatory requirements above. Shortlisted candidates complete a 45-minute technical interview in English with our consultant before any profile is submitted to the client. Every candidate who completes the screening questions receives a response. Cliente Department Head / Senior Manager Puesto Engineering · Maintenance & Reliability Ubicaciones Rabigh Herramientas de seguimiento de Teamtailor