Summary
John Crane, a Smiths Group business, is hiring a Service Technician in Turaif, Saudi Arabia. The role supports the Customer Reliability Engineer and involves inspecting, dismantling, cleaning, repairing, assembling and testing mechanical seals and cartridges. The technician will also support failure investigations, manage local seal-spares inventory and follow quality, safety and QHSE requirements. Applicants need an engineering diploma or degree, a relevant technical qualification, and at least 3 years of professional experience; rotating equipment knowledge, API knowledge and English are required, while Arabic and SAP are advantages.
The posting
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Company Description
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.
We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.
John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.
Job Description
The Service Technician will be supporting the Customer Reliability Engineer (CRE) at site as well as responsible for the refurbishment of mechanical seals and associated activities in a highly professional seal repair environment.
SPECIFIC DUTIES, ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Do daily equipment inspections, identify issues that can affect reliability, safety and environment.
- Support the reliability engineer in failure reporting and Root Cause Analysis investigations.
- Identify and recommend training needs (maintenance and operations) to the reliability engineer.
- Dismantling and cleaning of mechanical seals and parts under repair.
- Inspection of mechanical seals and cartridges.
- Prepare breakdown of parts required for the repair in accordance with the seal repair SOP procedures.
- Assemble and repair mechanical seals and seal cartridges in accordance with John Crane drawings and specifications.
- Testing of mechanical seals and seal cartridges in accordance with John Crane procedures.
- Manage local inventory of seal spares for both contractual repairs.
- Ensures quality & safety within functions/ tasks performed by himself/herself.
- Responsible for exercising due diligence towards health & safety of self and others within the organization.
- Ensures compliance with applicable QHSE instructions, requirements, laws, and regulations imposed by customers, regulatory bodies, and statutory authorities.
- Knowledge of seal failure modes is an advantage.
Qualifications
Education/Training: Diploma or University degree in Engineering or relevant vocational technical qualification.
Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in proactive multinational & multicultural environment.
Knowledge/Skills:
- Ability to understand component and assembly drawings.
- Knowledge of rotating equipment operational principles and troubleshooting.
- API knowledge
- Computer literate in MS Office. SAP knowledge will be an advantage.
- Excellent written and verbal business communication.
- Knowledge of labor reporting, work order variances, SAP, or equivalent ERP systems.
- Minning industry knowledge is an advantage.
Languages: English. Speaking in Arabic is an advantage
Additional Information
With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.
Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.
Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.
We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.
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