Manufacturing Knowledge Mgmt. Specialist

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 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 Manufacturing Knowledge Management Specialist to play a pivotal role in Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME) organizations to lead GME global Knowledge Management initiatives.

The Technology & Manufacturing Oversight Department (T&MOD) drives organizational success by leading Digitalization & Technology Management, Knowledge Management, and Performance Management programs across Saudi Aramco Global Manufacturing Wholly-Owned and Affiliate facilities (Including refining, petrochemical and NGL facilities). It ensures effective resources management, and fosters collaboration with stakeholders via aligning these programs with Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME) strategy. It also oversees the deployment of other GME programs across the facilities, focusing on strategic alignment and performance enhancement to address challenges and achieve manufacturing excellence.

Your primary role is to provide strategic guidance to GME management across our Performance Improvement Networks (PINs) where you will oversee the programs execution, ensure continuous alignment with relevant stakeholders and administer the process to ensure its objectives are achieved.

GME PINs Program consist of three main elements:

• Networks of Leaders.
• Communities of Practices.
• Knowledge Hub.

Key Responsibilities

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

• Oversee PINs program development and execution, ensure continuous alignment with roadmap relevant stakeholders and administer the operations of the program elements.
• Administer Networks of Leaders activities, manage resource allocation, and support cross-functional activities to achieve GME mandates.
• Oversee +30 CoPs across Global Manufacturing Portfolio by addressing the identified challenges, sharing best practices & lessons learned and ensure that all captured best practices & lessons learned at CoPs workshops.
• Oversee the process of capturing, archiving and disseminating best practices and lessons learned across the portfolio. Ensure effective control of assets knowledge and documents, maintaining up-to-date and accessible information.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience leading knowledge initiatives in manufacturing.
• 10+ years of experience in Oil and Gas manufacturing business.
• Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) from the KMI (Knowledge Management Institute).
• Expertise in knowledge engineering, expertise mapping and learning systems.
• Track record of developing and applying taxonomies at scale.
• Experience in designing and implementing integrated knowledge platforms.

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.