🔹 Site Manager – Integrated Refinery & Petrochemical Operations

📍 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Full-Time | Senior Leadership Appointment

LHR Americas, an international executive search firm headquartered in Katy, Texas (USA), is leading a confidential executive search for a Senior Site Manager to oversee contractor operations at a globally recognized integrated refinery and petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia.

This confidential process is personally led by Carlos G. Lopez, Managing Director at LHR Americas.

LinkedIn profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-guillermo-lopez-lhr/

We welcome applications from Saudi Nationals and/or experienced expatriates eligible to work in the Kingdom who bring strong technical depth and leadership within complex refinery and petrochemical environments.

🌍 The Industrial Environment

This world-class integrated complex operates at the intersection of:

• Refining (diesel, jet fuel, gasoline streams, naphtha)

• Petrochemical feedstocks (ethylene, propylene)

• Polymer production (polyethylene, polypropylene)

• High-value chemical intermediates serving global downstream industries

Operational reliability, asset integrity, and safety performance are mission-critical.

🎯 Your Mission

As Site Manager, you will:

• Lead full maintenance oversight across assigned plant areas

• Drive reliability performance and maintenance KPIs

• Ensure strict compliance with HSE and corporate safety standards

• Govern contractor performance, claims, change orders, and invoice approvals

• Provide contractual and operational checks & balances

• Resolve technical and commercial disputes with mature leadership

• Strengthen technical capability through workforce development

This is a high-accountability leadership role requiring strategic vision combined with strong technical authority.

👤 Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, or Chemical)

• Minimum 15+ years of solid refinery and/or petrochemical maintenance experience, with strong technical expertise in maintenance engineering, asset reliability, integrity systems, and shutdown/turnaround environments

• Demonstrated expertise in preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance strategies

• Strong hands-on knowledge of CMMS systems, RCM methodologies, and performance optimization

• Proven leadership of large multidisciplinary maintenance teams

• Strong commercial and contractual governance experience

• Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure, multicultural industrial environments

We are seeking a leader who is technically respected, operationally disciplined, and strategically minded.

🌟 Why Consider Saudi Arabia?

For expatriate professionals, this opportunity represents more than career growth — it offers participation in one of the most ambitious national transformations globally.

Saudi Arabia is a vibrant country with one of the most robust economies in the region, driven by its strategic Vision 2030 transformation plan.

By joining this opportunity, you and your family will:

• Live in a modern, multicultural environment

• Experience major global sporting and cultural events taking place across the Kingdom

• Benefit from world-class residential communities and international infrastructure

• Be located on the West Coast near the Red Sea, in a strategic industrial region

• Be within approximately two hours of Jeddah, one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in the country

The Kingdom today offers professional growth combined with an evolving lifestyle opportunity.

📅 Selection Process Timeline

• Process Launch: Wednesday, February 18 – February 25

• Preselected Candidates Presented to Client: Thursday, February 26

• Following client review, shortlisted finalists will be invited to technical interviews

This is a structured and time-sensitive executive search process.

📌 Application Requirements

To be considered, candidates must:

• Submit an updated Resume (CV) in English

• Complete and answer all questions in the application form 

Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

🚀 Ready to Lead at the Highest Industrial Standard? 

If you combine deep maintenance expertise with executive leadership capability, this is your opportunity to step into a high-impact strategic role. 

Apply now and take the next step in your industrial leadership journey.

Confidential Executive Search