The Talent Cliff

38% of an energy firm's reliability engineers can retire within four years, and new contracts need more of them, not fewer. Operations wants a 12-month academy to turn 100 graduates into engineers.

The requestClaim

We are about to lose our most experienced reliability engineers and we've just won three major contracts. I want a technical academy: take 100 graduates and make them reliability engineers in twelve months. We need it funded this quarter.

From Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, Vice President, Operations

Organisation: Sadeem Energy Services

Sector: Oil and gas maintenance services
Size: 5,200 employees

A maintenance contractor for large energy operators. Its reputation rests on rotating-equipment reliability. A hiring freeze two years ago stopped graduate intake.

Strategic priorities

Deliver three new contracts worth SAR 2.1bn without penalties
Grow market share in rotating-equipment services
Meet national workforce localisation targets

Who you can interview

Ahmed Al-Ghamdi
Vice President, Operations
Eng. Khalid Al-Sharif
Chief Executive Officer
Nora Al-Mutairi
Chief Human Resources Officer
Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Dosari
Chief Reliability Engineer
Lina Al-Zamil
Director, Bids and Commercial
Junior Reliability Engineers
Focus group: 6 engineers with 1–4 years' experience