Decarbonization and Sustainability Environmental Specialist at Aramco
Chicago, IL 60290
About the Job
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 an experienced Environmental Specialist with Refinery Experience to join our Global Manufacturing Excellence organization to work under the Decarbonization and Sustainability Division to work on environmental protection and performance aspects.
Decarbonization and Sustainability Division provides support to Saudi Aramco Global Manufacturing wholly owned and affiliates’ facilities in assessing and advising on the deployment and adoption of decarbonization, energy and environmental programs and initiatives. This includes identifying and analyzing operational challenges and developing engineering solutions to improve energy efficiency and GHG emissions.
Your primary role is to provide expert guidance and support in establishing environmental business plans objectives and emission baselines, developing solutions to environmental problems, conducting environmental performance calculations, daily monitoring and reporting, collecting and analyzing data to observe the GHG reduction opportunities, advising to improve the performance, and identifying deviations and developing solutions to environmental problems. Strong management and coordination skills are necessary to lead and work with environmental teams in operating facilities under the Global Manufacturing Excellence.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Monitor facility operating and business plans objectives are consistent and in-line with Saudi Aramco environmental protection policy and all applicable environmental policies, GIs and standards.
- Identify deviations and developing solutions to environmental problems to ensure mitigation of facilities environmental risk and improve compliance to company and governmental environmental regulations.
- Conduct full potential GHG and environmental assessment and provide recommendations.
- Develop, review and implement Green House Gas management.
- Conduct internal GHG assessment in preparation for facilities such as refineries, NGL fractionation plants, and petrochemical plants and lube manufacturing plants.
- Monitor the solids and chemical disposals to guarantee a safe environmental protection in compliance with governmental regulations.
- Monitor air quality, waste water and water conservation, waste management performance.
- Develop, review and deployment of facilities environmental management system in alignment with ISO 14001.
- Develop and maintain Environmental procedures and guidelines.
- Conduct internal environmental performance benchmarking studies among the oil and gas, refineries.
- Stay abreast of international and regional regulations concerning emissions, waste management, water and waste water, GHG to ensure alignment with compliance standards.
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders, including field engineers, top-level executives, and regulatory bodies, to ensure alignment with industry needs.
- Analyze complex data sets related to emissions, equipment efficiency, and other relevant parameters, deriving actionable insights for enhancement.
Minimum Requirements
As a successful candidate:
- You will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical or Environmental Engineering
- You will have at Least 17 years of experience in oil and gas refineries, petrochemical. EPI/QEP certified professional are preferred.
- You will have knowledge of the oil & gas, refining industry and its environmental challenges and risks.
- You will have knowledge of global / governmental environmental policies, regulations and standards.
- You will have expertise in technical sustainability data, calculation methodology and limitations.
- You will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in the field of environmental engineering.
- You will be familiar with ISO-14001 Environmental Management System and Requirement.
- You will be familiar with development of decarbonization roadmap, GHG emission baseline and target setting.
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.
