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MAJED ASHRAF ALQURASHI

RIYADH,KSA

Summary

Professional leader with an extensive expertise in safety management system and process safety related to operation and mainaiteance. Proven track record in managing maintenance safety ,production & operation safety , process improvement & Optimisation , RCA Safety Investigation Leadership, and Risk Management. Skilled in Business Continuity, Training & development, and Contract management & development. Committed to driving operational excellence and continuous improvement within the industry.Proven track record of achieving cost savings and leading digital transformation initiatives in refinery operations.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Project Manager

John Crane
Dammam, Eastern Province
07.2025 - Current
  • Strengthened stakeholder relationships through regular updates and clear communication.
  • Implemented quality control measures, ensured adherence to standards.
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project goals on time.
  • Fostered a positive work environment, enhanced team productivity substantially.

General Manager

Privte Bussiness
07.2024 - 06.2025
  • Regularly reviewed performance data, driving continuous improvement efforts.
  • Implemented rigorous financial controls, improving overall profitability.
  • Established successful partnerships with other companies for mutual growth.
  • Successfully negotiated contracts with suppliers to reduce costs.

Maintenance Contract Manager

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
03.2024 - 07.2024
  • Ensured timely delivery from vendors via stringent enforcement of delivery clauses in contracts.
  • Negotiated comprehensive contracts that benefited the company by reducing costs and risks.
  • Required regulatory & safety standards met by diligently enforcing all contract terms and conditions.

Maintenance Planning & Warhouse Superintendant

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
03.2022 - 02.2024
  • Develop Maintenance Safety Task lists.
  • Review the safety work permit observations and create corrective action plan.
  • Lead and approve all maintenance plan activities
  • Manage all Warehouse safety and operation activities.

General Maintenance Contract Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
09.2020 - 02.2022
  • Lead and supervise the scope development of the General maintenance service (GMS) contract.
  • Draft ,review and develop the safety requirements for maintenance long term contract.
  • Manage the bidding process including the cost estimation till the contract award stage.
  • Control and optimize this major contract value.

Routine Maintenance Superintendent of Refinery Train 2

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
11.2017 - 02.2022
  • To oversee and direct the day to day maintenance & repair activities at the plant to ensure proper execution of work, minimize downtime and improve operation availability within the approved budget.
  • Ensure that all maintenance work and functions are carried out in accordance with Company safety and operational standard.
  • lead the safety weekly and monthly meetings.
  • Monitor & report the safety performance of maintenance contractor's and the compliance to the contractors terms and conditions.

T&I Block D2 Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
10.2019 - 03.2020
  • Provide leadership, guidance and direction to ensure that functions, processes and activities related to static equipment scoping, planning, material requisition of the Turnaround are carried out in accordance with SATORP's operational standards
  • To establish, coordinate and monitor the activities related to turnaround safety and procedure compliance.

Assistant Superintendent of Area 5 operation (FCC, UGP, SHU, ALKY & SAR)

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
01.2016 - 10.2017
  • Demonstrate safety leadership by enhancing performance in all Heath Safety Environments (HSE) metrics.
  • lead all the safety incident investigation in the hole operation Area and approve the final report.
  • Implementation of Operation Excellence Objectives / Plant availability / Projects / People development.
  • Lead the business team which include different disciplines (process, operation, maintenance Inspection & process control) to troubleshoot and overcome short and long term issues.
  • Operation Enterprise Risk Management road mapping, risks identification, business impact analysis, control measures & treatment plan

Operation Engineer of FCC & UGP Units

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
04.2014 - 12.2015
  • Ensure Full Compliance of Safety Management System (SMS)/ Safety /MOC / Housekeeping / Checklists.
  • Alarm/ESD & Controller Status, Optimization
  • Variable Cost Optimization (Chemical, Catalyst,… & ETC.)
  • Implementation of Operation Excellence Objectives / NCR / T&I Preparation
  • Operation Procedure review and update
  • Operation Daily instruction
  • Follow up and coordination with different disciplines to solve and manage the issues

Area 5 operation Commissioning Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
05.2013 - 04.2014
  • Carried out day-to-day operation and safety checks for all commissioning activities.
  • Generate operation and safety punch list and follow up on the correction and closure .

DCS Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)

Invensys Operation Management
Singapore
09.2011 - 03.2012

Operation Engineer Trainee of FCC&UGP Units

Total Antwerp Refinery (TAR)
Antwerp
09.2010 - 04.2011
  • IFP Diploma practical training in process and operation of FCCU (5 months)
  • Turnaround project of FCCU (2 months)

Operation Engineer

Saudi Aramco
Jeddah
01.2009 - 04.2009
  • Practical training as Operation Engineer

Education

Master Advanced Degree (High Diploma) - Refining & petrochemical

IFP School

Bachelor Degree - Chemical Engineering

King Saud University

Skills

  • Safety Management System
  • Process Safety
  • Management & Leadership
  • Maintenance
  • Production & Operation
  • Process Improvement & Optimization
  • T&I Preparation & execution
  • RCA Safety Investigation Leader
  • Risk Management
  • Business Continuity
  • Training & development
  • Contract management & development
  • Refinery Economics, DCS FAT
  • Project Management
  • Commissioning & Start-Up operation

Certification

  • Certified in (CBCI) Business Continuity Institute,2017
    ID# 0477040008.
  • NEBOSH HSE Certificate in process safety management, 2023, ID # 00773978
  • Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP),2022 SMRP ID# 379424
  • Professional Engineer in Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE), 2022
    ID# 852662.


Accomplishments

  • 15 years of professional experience in management, safety , maintenance & operation contracts, warehouse, planning & scheduling, material logistics, supply chain management, plant safety, maintenance & reliability, process & operation.
  • Minimizing Routine maintenance cost by optimizing the planning & manpower of maintenance contractors (SATORP)
  • Leading the execution of successful FCC Waste Heat Boiler 1st in House Repair with 35% cost reduction compared to the external specialized repair.
  • Leading safe & successful execution of more than 10 Major planned and unplanned (Emergency) Unit Shutdowns.
  • Successfully completed different assignments including safety auditing, operation safety procedure review and development, operation shift scheduling (SATORP) saving more than $800,000 of catalyst & chemical budget in Q2015.
  • Completing successfully more than 40 RCA investigations as leader between operation and safety incidents (SATORP).
  • Leading & managing the pre-commissioning and commissioning safety team with successful handover on time (SATORP).

Training & Courses

  • Refinery Process Yield Optimization, Oxford Management Center, 12/01/14,
  • Refinery Economics, Solomon Associates, Prague, 04/01/14.
  • Process Monitoring & Optimization for FCCU, CatCracking, Bahrain, 11/01/15.
  • Troubleshooting Refinery process operations, Process Improvement Engineering, 12/01/15,
  • Mechanical Equipment Compressor, Pumps, Motors and VFD Training, ICTD, Dubai, 12/01/18.
  • TapRooT RCA training, Jubail, 10/01/19.
  • Root Cause Analysis training (RCA Leader), RELIABILITY Expert Center, Jubal, 06/01/12.
  • The Power of Leaders, Meric, 06/01/14, Meric Strategic Thinking & Planning, SATORP, 03/01/15.
  • Meric Strategic Management, SATORP, 07/01/16, 7 Habits, Franklincovey, SATORP, 09/01/16.
  • Problem Solving, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 10/01/16.
  • Risk Management Administrator, SATORP, 11/01/16.
  • Business Continuity Management (BCM), Business Continuity Institute, Riyadh, 12/01/16
  • Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 02/01/17.
  • Situational Leadership, FranklinCovey, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 05/01/17.
  • Critical Thinking, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 08/01/18.
  • Performance Management Training, Willis Watson Towers, 10/01/18, The Voice of leadership, Meric, 11/01/19.
  • Conflict Management, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 05/01/19.
  • Supervisor Foundation, Aramco Leadership Center, Ras Tanura, 09/01/19.
  • Saudi Engineering Conference VII, King Saud University, 01/01/07.
  • Petrotech, Bahrain, 04/01/15, MEPC, Bahrain, 09/01/15, MAINTCON, Bahrain, 11/01/18.
  • Advanced English Training Course (10 weeks), King's School of English Bournemouth, UK, 01/01/05.
  • Basic French Course (10 weeks), IFP School, Paris, 01/01/10.
  • French course (8 weeks), Antwerp Berlitz center, Belgium, 01/01/10, French course 2+1 (10 weeks), Antwerp University, Belgium, 01/01/11.

Timeline

Project Manager

John Crane
07.2025 - Current

General Manager

Privte Bussiness
07.2024 - 06.2025

Maintenance Contract Manager

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
03.2024 - 07.2024

Maintenance Planning & Warhouse Superintendant

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
03.2022 - 02.2024

General Maintenance Contract Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
09.2020 - 02.2022

T&I Block D2 Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
10.2019 - 03.2020

Routine Maintenance Superintendent of Refinery Train 2

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
11.2017 - 02.2022

Assistant Superintendent of Area 5 operation (FCC, UGP, SHU, ALKY & SAR)

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
01.2016 - 10.2017

Operation Engineer of FCC & UGP Units

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
04.2014 - 12.2015

Area 5 operation Commissioning Leader

Saudi Aramco Total Refining & Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
05.2013 - 04.2014

DCS Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)

Invensys Operation Management
09.2011 - 03.2012

Operation Engineer Trainee of FCC&UGP Units

Total Antwerp Refinery (TAR)
09.2010 - 04.2011

Operation Engineer

Saudi Aramco
01.2009 - 04.2009

Master Advanced Degree (High Diploma) - Refining & petrochemical

IFP School

Bachelor Degree - Chemical Engineering

King Saud University
MAJED ASHRAF ALQURASHI