Engineering and construction company Petrofac has hired and trained more than a hundred young Saudi nationals in the Jazan Refinery Project in the south west of Saudi Arabia.
The company announced today that as many as 142 local young women and men have been trained to become engineers in the oil and gas sector in the Kingdom.
As well as engineering, the young Saudi nationals also received administrative training in an office environment and on-the-job construction experience at the Jazan Refinery site.
A dozen Saudi young women have also been hired in the company’s Khobar office in Information Technology, Project Controls, Contracts, Administration, Organisational Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, Petrofac said.
“They have mastered the latest engineering design software programs to contribute significant value to the company’s efforts to execute and deliver the Jazan Project.”
Under the company’s ‘Saudi Future Generation Program’ graduate engineers then get to practice their supervisory skills by training “the 82 construction skills trainees in the Baish training program”.
“The engineers share their knowledge of civil, mechanical, electrical, process, piping and safety areas that will help in the construction of the Jazan Refinery now going on in Baish,” Petrofac said.
“The 82 construction skills trainees are now in their 10th month of technical training as welders, pipe and rebar fitters and carpenters,” it added.
Petrofac’s training program is aimed at encouraging more young locals to get into oil and gas engineering and construction jobs after the government introduced a ‘Saudisation’ policy across all different sectors in a move to nationalise its workforce and move away from an overdependence on expatriate workers.
