# Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA) at KBR

> Open job at KBR in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Workplace: On-site.

Source: RigJobsDirect, https://rigjobsdirect.com/jobs/kbr-principal-electrical-engineer-psa-b7sja1w
Posted 11 November 2026. Last checked on the employer's career site: 12 November 2026.

## Facts

- Company: [KBR](https://rigjobsdirect.com/companies/kbr)
- Location: Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
- Workplace: On-site
- Employment type: Full-time
- Local language: Not required
- Skills: DCS, SCADA
- Not mentioned in the job post: pay, rotation, visa sponsorship, relocation, where you can apply from

## Job description

**Title:**

Principal Electrical Engineer (PSA)

**Overall Summary**

Principal Electrical Engineer – with a minimum of 12+ years of progressive experience in developing, reviewing, and coordinating substation automation, protection, control, monitoring, and communication requirements for Saudi Aramco projects in the Oil & Gas, hydrocarbon, and Infrastructure industries. Demonstrated leadership of a medium team of electrical engineers and designers and experience in Conceptual, FEED, and detailed engineering of medium to large scale projects required.

**Duties and Responsibilities:**

- Lead a team of 5 to 8 electrical engineers and designers
- Develop and review the Power System Automation philosophy, system architecture, functional design specification, network architecture, and interface requirements.
- Define the integration of protection relays, intelligent electronic devices, meters, switchgear, transformers, motor control centers, UPS systems, battery chargers, and other electrical equipment with the PSA system.
- Review PSA panels, operator workstations, engineering workstations, servers, gateways, managed switches, GPS time-synchronization systems, and associated network components.
- Coordinate interfaces between the PSA system and SCADA, SAS, RTU, DCS, ESD, PMS, load-shedding systems, electrical control systems, and remote-control centers, as applicable.
- Provide SME-level technical leadership and guidance for PSA system design, I/O engineering, protection interfaces, automation architecture, and system integration.
- Prepare/review MR and TBE and perform detailed Vendor NMR reviews for PSA/SCADA interfaces and related electrical equipment.
- Responsible for design integrity of electrical scope, performance of assigned staff, on-schedule delivery of the work within budget
- Lead technical presentations to Clients and their representatives as required

**Key Interactions:**

- Other disciplines activities
- Vendors (technical)
- Interact with the project Management
- Clients representatives

**Qualifications & Years of Experience:**

Minimum Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and a minimum of 12+ years in Oil & Gas industry, hydrocarbon, petroleum refinery and infrastructure industries.

**Key Skills & Technical Competencies:**

- Expert knowledge and understanding of protection engineering design practices, including protection philosophy, scheme development, relay application and settings, protection & metering drawings, AC/DC schematics, tripping logic, interlocking, CT/VT selection and protection interfaces for electrical systems up to 115 kV.
- Wide knowledge of codes and industry standards IEEE, NFPA, API, IEC, ANSI/NEMA.
- Wide knowledge in Electrical Power Systems, Protection Philosophy & Protection Device Coordination.
- Knowledge of Saudi Aramco, SABIC Standards and procedures will be an added advantage.

## How to apply

Apply on the job page, https://rigjobsdirect.com/jobs/kbr-principal-electrical-engineer-psa-b7sja1w: its Apply button opens the employer's own application page.

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