Electrical Site Engineer

About the Company

Kent is building a future-focused energy business that aims high while staying grounded in practical delivery. The organisation works across major energy-sector projects and values people who want to learn, grow, and contribute to meaningful work at scale.

The company promotes a diverse and inclusive environment where employees are encouraged to bring their full selves to work. It supports family-friendly policies, flexible working arrangements, employee networks, and reasonable adjustments for candidates who need support during recruitment.

Kent’s guiding beliefs emphasize playing big, staying emotionally agile, being highly performance-driven, and using long-term, innovative thinking. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging are treated as important drivers of success, with an international workforce spanning multiple nationalities across 6 continents and 24 countries.

Job Overview

Kent is hiring an Electrical Site Engineer for its Oil & Gas team in Khurais, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The role is a key part of a growing engineering team and will contribute to strengthening technical capability and supporting the company’s presence in the sector.

This position focuses on site engineering, design support, and project execution in line with Saudi Aramco requirements, relevant NACE standards, and international codes. The engineer will also support corrosion control and cathodic protection activities as a NACE-certified professional.

Responsibilities

• Assess electrical design packages covering power distribution, lighting, grounding, and lightning protection.
• Produce engineering deliverables such as single-line diagrams, load schedules, cable schedules, and layout drawings.
• Verify that drawings and documents meet Saudi Aramco engineering standards, specification requirements, NACE standards, and applicable international codes.
• Assist procurement efforts by checking vendor-submitted documents.
• Prepare procurement-related documents including MTA, MR, TBE, and similar submissions.
• Mark up drawings for redline updates and help complete as-built documentation, including I-Plant requirements.
• Spot technical concerns or departures from requirements and raise technical queries where needed.
• Contribute to reports, method statements, and work procedures.
• Support testing and commissioning for cathodic protection systems, grounding systems, transformers, rectifiers, and related electrical equipment.
• Review coating inspection reports, pipe-to-soil potential readings, continuity test reports, and cathodic protection performance data.
• Use AutoCAD, MicroStation, and SolidWorks in day-to-day work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• NACE certification is required.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD, MicroStation, and SolidWorks.
• Ability to work with moderate supervision while steadily building independent judgment.
• Willingness to support new initiatives, assist new joiners, and challenge existing approaches when needed.
• Awareness of health, safety, sustainability, environment, and quality obligations for the company, clients, and host-country authorities.

Additional Information

The role is based onsite in Khurais, Eastern, Saudi Arabia and is offered on a full-time basis.

The company is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities. It is also disability-friendly and can provide adjustments to support candidates during the hiring process.

Employees are expected to follow the company’s HSE, sustainability, environment, and quality rules, as well as the requirements of clients and the host country’s governing authorities.

Purpose and Culture

Kent describes its mission as helping deliver the world’s energy needs in the most responsible way possible. Its culture is built around performance, adaptability, big-picture thinking, and collaboration across different skills, languages, and cultures.