The Role
Coordinates technical and industrial skills training for refinery and petrochemical operations staff. Responsibilities include assessing training needs, managing internal and external trainers, reviewing course content, evaluating delivery and trainee feedback, maintaining training records, developing KPIs, supporting career development, and delivering training when required. The role requires extensive refining or petrochemical experience, knowledge of engineering and safety standards, and experience with major EPCC projects in multicultural environments.
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Company Description
- Position: Engineering Technical Training Coordinator
- Industry: Refining & Petrochemicals
- Project: Major petrochemical expansion integrated with an existing world-class refinery operated by a joint venture between two international energy majors, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia. Scope includes a mixed-feed steam cracker (3.5 MT/y of chemicals), high-value petrochemical and HDPE units, plus utilities, storage, off-sites and buildings. CAPEX over USD 10 billion (plus USD 3 billion from downstream investors), 4.5-year execution, 6 EPCC packages, ~100 million manhours, 25,000 workers at peak. Owner’s PMT peaking at ~350 people.
- Location: Jubail, Saudi Arabia
- Status: Resident, 5 working days per week (Sunday–Thursday)
- Start: Q1 2026 (per client document)
- Duration: 6 months, renewable
- Package: Accommodation, meals, local transport, mobile phone, medical insurance, mob/demob and 5 round-trip leave tickets per year provided
Job Description
Main function: manage and coordinate technical and industrial skills training for the operator’s manufacturing and operations staff, follow up on external training providers and work with internal trainers to ensure course quality.
- Review annual training needs identified by supervisors during year-end appraisals
- Coordinate external and internal trainers to deliver technical and industrial skills courses
- Ensure all administrative and technical requirements for course delivery are met
- Attend courses, collect trainee feedback and evaluate topics, methods, content and trainer performance
- Link technical training with talent management and career development programmes
- Contribute to training objectives, goals and plans with the training programmes development section
- Keep up with training trends and recommend improvements
- Develop and review course objectives, content and approach with relevant personnel
- Prepare course specifications and take part in selecting external trainers
- Ensure course notes and handouts are available to all participants
- Maintain a training database: trainer evaluations, feedback, trainee results and materials
- Develop training KPIs
- Deliver specific technical and industrial training sessions when required
- 10+ years of professional experience
- Background in refining and petrochemical technologies
- Technical knowledge of international and American codes (IEC, EN, NFPA, UL, IEEE, ANSI)
- General knowledge of construction and commissioning (a plus)
- Experience in Saudi Arabia / Middle East
- Experience in the EPCC phase of large projects and in integrated / joint-venture organisations
- Knowledge of safety and environmental aspects of major construction projects
- Fluent English, written and spoken
- Able to work in a multicultural, high-pressure project team and coordinate with contractors, auditors, experts and PMT packages
- Starting Date: Q4 2026
- Duration: 12 months (renewable)
- Location: Jubail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Status: Residential
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience
- Background in refining and petrochemical technologies
- Technical knowledge of IEC, EN, NFPA, UL, IEEE, and ANSI codes
- General knowledge of construction and commissioning
- Experience in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East
- Experience during the EPCC phase of large projects
- Experience in integrated or joint-venture organizations
- Knowledge of safety and environmental aspects of major construction projects
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Ability to work in a multicultural, high-pressure project team
- Ability to coordinate with contractors, auditors, experts, and PMT packages
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The Company
What We Do
IOTA Group is a global leader in workforce deployment and Employer of Record (EOR) services with over 40 years of expertise. Based in Switzerland, the company specializes in recruitment, staffing, and global mobility solutions, providing international integration expertise and tailored project support for complex cross-border deployments, particularly within the energy, oil and gas, and industrial sectors.
