Electrical Engineer

Overview

Qatar

Job Family Group : Discipline Engineering

Worker Type : Regular

Posting Start Date : September 17, 2025

Business unit : Integrated Gas and Upstream

Experience Level : Experienced Professionals

What’s the role

Pearl GTL is a world-class asset in the Shell portfolio, utilizing cutting-edge technology to convert natural gas into high-quality liquid fuels and products. The work environment promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness (DEI) and collaboration across all levels. Pearl GTL offers a dynamic setting where innovation and continuous improvement are part of everyday operations.

The Electrical Engineer will be part of the Electrical Engineering Team based in Ras Laffan, reporting to the Lead Electrical Engineer. The role is responsible for ensuring the safety, integrity, and reliability of the Pearl GTL electrical assets in Qatar. The Electrical Section is part of the Pearl GTL Asset organization reporting to the Engineering Manager.

This role requires close collaboration with Maintenance, Turnaround, and Operations teams, as well as other engineering disciplines. It emphasizes efficient work processes, ownership at all levels, technical competence, continuous improvement, multi-disciplinary teamwork with delegated leadership.

What you’ll be doing

Main responsibilities :

Able to work as Senior Electrical Authorised Person (SAEP), ensuring electrical safety across all activities at Pearl GTL. Responsibilities include conducting electrical safety audits, performing high-voltage (HV) switching operations, approving temporary electrical installations, verifying high-risk permits as the Electrical Subject Matter Expert (SME), and assessing and authorizing electrical personnel in compliance with Pearl Electrical Safety Rules.

Provide technical support to the plant maintenance team in executing preventive and corrective maintenance (PM / CM) activities, troubleshooting electrical issues, and conducting root cause analysis of equipment failures to ensure reliability and operational continuity.

Develop and implement maintenance strategies and provide integrity assurance for high-voltage (HV) and low-voltage (LV) electrical systems—including power generators, transformers, switchgear up to 132kV, protection relays, UPS, VSDS, process heaters, heat tracing systems and motors—through field regular inspection rounds, audits, and review of maintenance execution activities, ensuring equipment reliability and operational efficiency.

Proactively identify reliability threats, develop effective solutions, and drive implementation to eliminate recurring issues (“bad actors”), resolve design deficiencies, and enhance overall asset performance.

Develop and review electrical design documents and equipment specifications for plant modifications, system upgrades, and new project implementations.

Apply advanced diagnostic tools, digital technologies, and predictive maintenance techniques to enhance asset reliability and optimize equipment performance.

Manage Pearl GTL’s power generation and distribution systems—up to 132 kV—using Electrical Network Monitoring and Control System (ENMCS) such as ABB 800XA, including load shedding operations to ensure stable and reliable power supply.

Interpret and review electrical power system study reports, including load flow, short circuit, arc flash, transient stability, and protection coordination analyses, to ensure power system integrity.

Provide technical assurance for Pearl GTL asset management and Management of Change (MoC) processes to ensure compliance with engineering standards and operational integrity.

Perform quality assurance for electrical installation activities related to obsolescence upgrades and brownfield modification projects, ensuring all electrical systems and equipment are installed in compliance with IEC standards.

Understand and review equipment specifications, installation practices, and inspection requirements for Ex certified equipment in accordance with IEC standards, ensuring compliance with hazardous area classification drawings and regulatory requirements.

Coordinate with vendors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to obtain specialist technical support, ensuring timely resolution of complex issues.

Key deliverables :

Effectively manage, deliver, and sustain Pearl GTL’s electrical equipment availability targets by ensuring high standards of integrity, reliability, and performance across all electrical systems.

Drive safe, reliable, and efficient delivery of daily plant operational requirements, in alignment with Pearl GTL’s strategic vision of “working together to power progress.”

Technical development and mentorship of Qatari engineers, supporting their advancement through Shell’s graduate development programs, while fostering leadership behaviors aligned with Qatar Shell GTL’s values and expectations.

Demonstrate adaptability and effectiveness in a demanding work environment that requires efficient processes, strong ownership at all levels, technical competence, a continuous improvement mindset, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and integrated leadership.

What you bring

Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience in the oil & gas or petrochemical industry.

Preferred experience includes :

CompEx or similar Ex certification for working on Ex-certified equipment

Experience in testing REF542+, REX series numerical relays, and performing and interpretation of PD & Tan Delta measurements

Proficiency in ABB / Hitachi PCM 600, ABB 800XA, and REF542+ FUPLA software tools

Fluency in both written and verbal English

What we offer

You will work with talented, committed people on challenging problems in the energy sector. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need in an environment that values honesty, integrity, and respect. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you grow.

Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

Continuously grow transferable skills to get ahead.

Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

Join a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

Benefit from flexible working hours and possible remote / mobile working.

Competitive starting salary and annual performance-related increases; pay and benefits are among the best in the world.

Paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.

Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.

Grow through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.

Access to a wide range of training and development programmes.

Shell in Qatar

The State of Qatar has been on a journey of economic development. Shell has invested over $20 billion in Qatar since 2006 in partnership with QatarEnergy. This partnership spans key elements of the oil and gas business.

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