Power-to-X Specialist

Candidate must Relocate to Saudi Arabia.

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Power-to-X Specialist to join our Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals team within Aramco’s Research & Development Center (R&DC).

The Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals team are responsible for developing and improving unconventional and cost-effective technologies related to the conversion of renewable and recyclable feedstocks into sustainable fuels and chemicals.

Your primary role is to lead and contribute to the sustainability research, development, and commercialization of sustainable technologies for CO2 conversion to fuels and chemicals. Efforts will lie in both retrofitting of existing units and developing new processes to produce sustainable products, including: e-fuels, e-methanol, e-naphtha, e-olefins and others. This important role offers a unique opportunity to support Aramco’s energy transition to meet its sustainability targets, by leading technology development from its Research & Development (R&D) stage to the commercialization stage.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Lead and initiate R&D projects related to the conversion of captured CO­2­ into sustainable fuels and chemicals.
• Lead necessary development stages of processes technologies spanning bench-scale testing, pilot testing, demo plant trials.
• Lead the research and techno-commercialization tasks related to the production of e-fuels and e-chemicals through the integration into existing refinery and petrochemical processes.
• Utilize project management tools in setting work objectives, experimental scope, budgeting, and timely execution of the projects towards viable technical solutions.
• Effectively manage and collaborate with external entities and contractors for the execution of R&D projects.

Minimum Requirements

• You should hold a PhD in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related fields.
• You must have a minimum of 10 years relevant experience, including technology development and process design/engineering related to P2X technologies.
• Wide experience in renewable energy utilization and production, plant and process engineering design, process retrofitting, basic and detailed engineering, and process simulation and modeling is essential.
• Wide theoretical and practical knowledge of emerging renewable energy technologies, including e-fuels, CO2 hydrogenation, and catalyst scale-up and testing for sustainable fuel and chemicals production is also a requirement.
• You must be able to demonstrate the ability to conduct detailed techno-economic assessment of R&D projects.
• You must also have the ability to provide written technical reports or presentations of technical work to a variety of audiences.
• Sufficient experience in leading and managing projects, tasks planning, and manpower management is preferred.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world