Mechanical Maintenance Engineer HVAC (Petrochemical Experience)

About the Role

Eram Talent is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - HVAC with extensive experience in petrochemical plants. This full-time position is based in Al Jubayl, Saudi Arabia. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of HVAC and Mechanical Refrigeration Units (MRUs) that serve critical petrochemical facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead preventive and predictive maintenance programs, troubleshooting activities, and root cause investigations.
• Implement reliability improvement initiatives and optimize spare parts to ensure safe and uninterrupted operation.
• Maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize HVAC, chiller, and industrial refrigeration systems within petrochemical and process plant environments.
• Work hands-on with MRUs, centrifugal, screw, and reciprocating chillers, AHUs, package units, ventilation systems, compressors, condensers, evaporators, pumps, and refrigeration control systems.
• Diagnose and resolve mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, refrigeration, and control-related failures to maximize equipment availability and reliability.
• Analyze operating parameters such as temperature, pressure, flow, superheat, subcooling, and compressor performance to identify system abnormalities and implement corrective actions.
• Perform equipment performance evaluations, condition assessments, and reliability improvements to minimize downtime and optimize energy efficiency.
• Interpret HVAC/refrigeration schematics, P&IDs, electrical drawings, and OEM technical documentation.
• Monitor equipment performance, troubleshoot control logic, analyze alarms, optimize system operation, and integrate HVAC assets with centralized monitoring and control platforms using Building Management Systems (BMS) and HVAC control systems.
• Conduct Root Cause Investigation (RCI) for critical and repetitive equipment failures and implement corrective and preventive actions.

Maintenance Program Management

• Develop and optimize preventive maintenance programs based on equipment criticality and reliability data.
• Ensure the timely completion of maintenance plans and work orders.

Spare Parts Optimization

• Review and optimize HVAC spare parts inventory.
• Identify critical and insurance spare parts requirements.
• Establish minimum and maximum inventory levels based on risk and lead times.
• Coordinate with procurement and warehouse teams to ensure spare part availability.
• Support obsolescence management and spare part standardization initiatives.

Safety and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with company safety regulations and engineering standards.
• Participate in Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR), risk assessments, and incident investigations as required.
• Support process safety requirements related to HVAC systems serving critical occupied buildings.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in mechanical maintenance, specifically with HVAC systems in petrochemical plants.
• Demonstrated expertise in maintaining and troubleshooting complex industrial refrigeration systems.