Abdulelah Aledrissi
Summary
A seasoned professional with a proven track record at Saudi Aramco, I excel in strategic planning and cross-functional team management. Spearheaded transformative initiatives, achieving an 80% optimization in shutdown planning efficiency. My expertise in stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement drives operational excellence and innovation.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Corporate Transformation Program Officer
Saudi Aramco
08.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Company General Use
- Led consultants’ group from McKinsey to drive the corporate transformation program and liaised with cross-functional teams to implement value creation initiatives across the corporation
- Conducted grand engagement workshop with aramco affiliates to align expectations of aramco group, instigate challenges, resonate solutions through brainstorming sessions with technical teams in the fields of digitalization, innovation, technologies, HR, finance and organizational structure alignment
- Liaised with McKinsey consulting company to develop value creation initiatives
- Provided frequent update reviews to executive management on the transformation program progress
- Company General Use
Project Manager
Saudi Aramco
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Company Overview: Gas Producing
- Liaised with stakeholders and coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve oil and gas facilities project issues and mitigate risks
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines
- Identified action plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
- Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team’s ability to deliver results
- Gas Producing
Assistant to Project Manager
Saudi Aramco
02.2023 - 02.2024
- Company Overview: Gas Producing
- Managed 7 teams comprising 60 employees and liaised with stakeholders to support oil and gas facilities related projects to deliver milestones while sustaining outstanding safety records, project schedule and within budget through effective research of innovative solutions and robust monitoring
- Gas Producing
Engineering Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
02.2021 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Gas Producing
- Achieved score of [4.5 out of 5] in Digital Maturity Assessment conducted by third-party consultant 'Gartner' at Southern Area Oil Operations
- The digital maturity assessment has contemplated digital capabilities including Data & Analytics, Digital Workplace, Foundational Technology, IT systems and Internet of Things (IoT)
- This has demonstrated robust digital strategy with well-defined strategic priority areas aligned with corporate objectives
- Developed tracking platform to monitor and gauge engineering recommendations implementation with concerned stakeholders and enhanced engagement level among concerned stakeholders to improve deployment progress by [50%]
- Optimized shutdowns planning efficiency from 5 hours to 1 hour per cycle [80% optimization]
- This optimization has been achieved as a result of instigating Review Performance Dialogues, which is interactive platform through Skype and decision-making enabler to engage and align all stakeholders responsible for gas production outages to ensure meeting the kingdom's gas demand
- Prepares quarterly presentation and report to executive management comprehending and articulating organization's quarterly performance in compelling way
- Achieved Excellence Level [score of 3.5 out of 4] at Corporate Level in gas production at Saudi Aramco
- This accomplishment entails robust and sustainable gas production performance as a result of robust system which I established to plan, implement, monitor and adjust performance
- Improved equipment downtime by [80%] by conducting extensive engineering analysis on operations of gas production to identify top [20%] high-impact factors to downtime and identifying interim and long-term remedial plans and close monitoring to ensure effective implementation
- Gas Producing
Corporate Consultant
Saudi Aramco
02.2020 - 02.2021
- Company Overview: Dhahran
- Led a team comprising twenty-five (25) corporate assessors from Saudi Aramco to perform Operational Excellence (OE) Assessment Audit for Marine Department
- Marine organization operates fleet of vessels in six (6) ports at Saudi Arabia and performs wide variety of functions supporting production of oil in offshore areas, oil spill response, sub-sea inspection & repairs, rig move operations and offshore logistics
- The objective of OE Corporate Assessment Audit is to ensure adequate implementation of business processes across all divisions and to evaluate organizational performance in terms of Plan-Do- Check-Adjust methodology
- Dhahran
Performance Management & Compliance Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
01.2019 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: Gas Producing
- Gas Producing
Equipment Reliability Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
02.2018 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: Gas Producing
- Gas Producing
Project Engineer
Saudi Aramco
11.2016 - 02.2018
- Company Overview: Abqaiq Plants
- Abqaiq Plants
Loss Prevention Engineer
Saudi Aramco
11.2015 - 11.2016
- Company Overview: Distribution
- Distribution
Operational Excellence Consultant
Saudi Aramco
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: Oil Producing
- Oil Producing
Lead Facilities Engineer
Saudi Aramco
01.2013 - 11.2013
- Company Overview: Abqaiq Plants
- Abqaiq Plants
Facilities Engineer
Saudi Aramco
08.2007 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Abqaiq Plants
- Abqaiq Plants
Education
Master of Science - Chemical & Biological Engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
12.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
Birmingham07.2007
Skills
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Cross Functional Teams Coordination & Management
- Stakeholders Management & Engagement
- Innovation
- Continuous Improvement
- Performance Management
Trainingandskills
- Emerging Leaders, 09/01/24, Harvard Business School
- Executive Leadership Program, 08/01/22, University of Oxford
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Cross Functional Teams Coordination & Management
- Stakeholders Management & Engagement
- Innovation
- Continuous Improvement
- Performance Management
Timeline
Corporate Transformation Program Officer
Saudi Aramco
08.2024 - Current
Project Manager
Saudi Aramco
06.2024 - 08.2024
Assistant to Project Manager
Saudi Aramco
02.2023 - 02.2024
Engineering Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
02.2021 - 02.2023
Corporate Consultant
Saudi Aramco
02.2020 - 02.2021
Performance Management & Compliance Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
01.2019 - 02.2020
Equipment Reliability Supervisor
Saudi Aramco
02.2018 - 01.2019
Project Engineer
Saudi Aramco
11.2016 - 02.2018
Loss Prevention Engineer
Saudi Aramco
11.2015 - 11.2016
Operational Excellence Consultant
Saudi Aramco
11.2013 - 11.2015
Lead Facilities Engineer
Saudi Aramco
01.2013 - 11.2013
Facilities Engineer
Saudi Aramco
08.2007 - 08.2011
Master of Science - Chemical & Biological Engineering
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham