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Mohammed Abdallah Haridy, Senior Principal Process Control Engineer

Mohammed Abdallah Haridy

Senior Principal Process Control Engineer·Air Products

Saudi Arabia

Diploma, Project Management Professional

Work experience

Total years of experience: 17 years, 10 months

Senior Principal Process Control Engineer

March 2021 - Present

Air Products

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

March 2021 - Present

• Lead the Process Control & Instrumentation discipline for the JIGPC megaproject, providing technical direction, engineering governance, and project delivery oversight for multi hundred million dollar C&I scopes across one of the world’s largest and most unique gasification based power generation complexes.
• Serve as the technical authority for specifications, design, integration, and implementation of control and instrumentation systems, ensuring engineering excellence and alignment with global standards across all project phases.
• Drive resolution of critical system integration, reliability, and operability issues across DCS, SIS, analyzers, field instrumentation, and communication networks to support safe, stable, and high performance plant operations.
• Support modernization and continuous improvement of the JIGPC facility—a joint venture between global leaders in oil & gas, industrial gases, and power generation—by enhancing automation strategies, upgrading control architectures, and improving system resilience.
• Provide SME leadership to the Design Notices team, identifying and correcting process control and instrumentation design deficiencies through updated control narratives, P&ID markups, and revised C&E matrices.
• Lead development of engineering packages for design corrections, including specifications for new instruments, replacements, analyzer upgrades, and control system enhancements.
• Manage project risks from identification through mitigation, ensuring proactive oversight and timely resolution throughout the execution lifecycle.
• Review contractor MOC engineering deliverables to ensure compliance with Saudi Aramco standards and efficient execution of design and field modifications.
• Oversee daily Process Control operations within the C&I department, providing technical support for Honeywell PCS and managing control/instrumentation changes to maintain system reliability and compliance with engineering standards.
• Lead the formation and execution of the JIGPC cybersecurity program, conducting comprehensive assessments of the Process Area Network (PAN) and control systems following handover from Saudi Aramco.
• Develop engineering specifications and scope of work for cybersecurity upgrades, closing critical security gaps and strengthening OT system resilience.
• Provide regional leadership across the MEET region for instrumentation and control system engineering, supporting multiple industrial gases projects.
• Manage full project lifecycle activities from design and procurement through construction, commissioning, startup, and handover.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, vendors, and contractors to ensure safe, reliable, and high quality project delivery.
• Develop functional and conceptual design specifications, FDS, test procedures, method statements, and technical documentation for regional projects.
• Support troubleshooting, system upgrades, preventive maintenance, and technical consulting across various IG facilities.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Oil and Gas

Lead Project Engineer

August 2016 - Present

Honeywell Process Solutions

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

August 2016 - Present

• Carried out Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for large scale control system projects, including system architecture development, I/O assignment, PCS cabinet sizing and design, hardware layouts, and network architecture.
• Led detailed design and configuration of Honeywell Experion PKS DCS and Safety Manager (ESD) systems for the Jizan Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (JIGCC) project — the world’s largest gasifier based power plant converting vacuum residue into syngas.
• Developed safety shutdown logic and authored complete system documentation including Functional Design Specifications (FDS), testing procedures, wiring diagrams, and engineering deliverables.
• Led Pre FAT, FAT, and SAT activities for multi million dollar control system packages, managing over 100 change orders and ensuring full compliance with Saudi Aramco engineering standards, cybersecurity requirements, and functional safety requirements.
• Coordinated closely with EPCs (Técnicas Reunidas, SAIPEM, SEPCO) and managed vendor and subcontractor scopes to achieve seamless commissioning, integration, and system handover across multiple subsystems.
• Designed and deployed Honeywell Experion SCADA and RTU2020 systems for 30 modular gas skids supporting upstream operations in the Ghawar field.
• Developed control applications, RTU configurations, and full documentation packages including FDS, O&M manuals, and testing procedures.
• Provided site support for maintaining and implementing modifications on installed base Honeywell systems across KSA, ensuring operational continuity, system reliability, and adherence to engineering and safety standards

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Engineering

Lead Control systems engineer

May 2015 - Present

GIZA ARABIA

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

May 2015 - Present

• Act as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
•Develop control system project documentations including FDS, testing procedures, method of statements, instruction manuals.
• contribute in control system engineering including developing control system applications, third party integration schemes and configuration for different communication solutions (3G, wireless, radio, VPN, ).
• Ensures that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum cost by allocating work assignments to project team.
• Shares technical knowledge with project team, supervisor, own discipline and other engineering disciplines.
• Reports progress and technical problems to project and engineering Manager.
• Provide system solutions, sales and proposals teams support in developing solutions.
• Manage project teams that implements customized complex and/or standard engineering solutions, usually representing significant portions, (work packages) of a large project, to successful completion.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Engineering

Service Engineer

April 2014 - May 2015

Yokogawa Europe B.V

Netherlands

April 2014 - May 2015

• Respond to customer complaints, evaluate, analyze, inspect and review findings to determine the solution to the problem that the customer demands
• Work alongside with technical sales team to prepare the sales support form, for doing the estimate of the upgrades or service modifications
• Offer feedback on product development, report the product defects and work alongside with the SCADA R&D department to test new software patches for new software upgrades and others related to solving specific defects or required enhancements in the software
• Perform control systems’ upgrades for Fast/Tools SCADA projects
• Install and commission ModPacks on FAST/Tools and stardom installed base projects
• Provide consultation on FAST/Tools and stardom installed base projects
• Perform preventive maintenance and regular systems healthy checks for Fast/Tools installed base projects through Yokogawa remote response center.

Company industry:
Oil & Gas
Job role:
Engineering

Sr. Control Systems Engineer

July 2009 - March 2014

GIZA SYSTEMS

Cairo, Egypt

July 2009 - March 2014

• Develop and maintain control software for Oil & Gas, Water/Wastewater treatment, Electrical substations and power transmission, Food industries, Medical industries, and safety instrumented systems (SIS) and relevant auxiliaries.
• Configuration and analysis of industrial communication networks and buses such as Industrial Ethernet, DNP3, MODBUS, etc….
• Handling, delivering and supervising different site activities such as SAT, Commissioning & Start up, Services and maintenance, and solving critical problems
• Issue and manage control systems documentations.
• supervising control panels building and Testing.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Engineering

Automation and Technical Sales Engineer

August 2008 - May 2009

GAMAWORKS Automation

Cairo, Egypt

August 2008 - May 2009

• Design & maintain control systems (SW and HW) for different control systems.
• Build key customer relationships, developing and growing long-term relationships with customers and other partners.
• Giving detailed information about company’s different activities and the ways in which our products could meet the customers' needs.

Company industry:
General Engineering Consultancy
Job role:
Engineering

Education

Project Management Institute

June 2019

June 2019

Diploma, Project Management Professional

United States

Credential ID #2597341 Validity: 2019 – 2022.
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VCA

July 2014

July 2014

Diploma, Safety For Operational Supervisors VCA

Netherlands

The VOL- VCA encompasses knowledge of issues such as the applicable (European) legislation and regulations, how to recognize unsafe situations and actions, implementing measures intended to prevent accidents, SCC certification, the company emergency plan and organizing toolbox meetings.
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Cairo University

November 2008

November 2008

Bachelor's degree, Communication & Electronics Engineering

Egypt

GPA (percentage): 67%

GPA (percentage): 67%

Bachelor's degree in communication and electronics Engineering in 2008, Cairo University, Cairo. Egypt. Graduation Project : Smart buildings & Home Automation
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Skills

Service Engineering
Expert
Service Engineering
Expert
Control System Design
Expert
Control System Design
Expert
SCADA
Expert
SCADA
Expert
Commissioning
Expert
Commissioning
Expert
Process Safety
Expert
Process Safety
Expert
TRAINING
Expert
TRAINING
Expert
Sales
Intermediate
Sales
Intermediate
SCADA
Expert
SCADA
Expert
Programming Human Machine interface
Expert
Programming Human Machine interface
Expert
Process Safety
Intermediate
Process Safety
Intermediate
PLC
Expert
PLC
Expert
Control Systems Documentation
Expert
Control Systems Documentation
Expert
Pre-sales
Intermediate
Pre-sales
Intermediate
Control Panels Design
Intermediate
Control Panels Design
Intermediate
Instrumentations
Intermediate
Instrumentations
Intermediate
Site services, Troubleshooting, and solving critical problems
Intermediate
Site services, Troubleshooting, and solving critical problems
Intermediate
Safety Instrumented systems
Intermediate
Safety Instrumented systems
Intermediate
Commissioning and Start up
Intermediate
Commissioning and Start up
Intermediate
Automation
Expert
Automation
Expert
Marketing Coordinating
Intermediate
Marketing Coordinating
Intermediate
Control systems design
Expert
Control systems design
Expert
Service Engineering
Expert
Service Engineering
Expert
Control System Design
Expert
Control System Design
Expert
Commissioning
Expert
Commissioning
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

Expert

Memberships

Saudi Council Of Engineers

Member

March 2016

Training and Certifications

Training
NEN3140 - Safety working with electricity
Yokogawa Europe Training center
Oct 2014
Yokogawa ExaQuantum PIMS install and administration
Yokogawa Europe Training center
Sep 2014
H2S INTRODUCTIE (NOGEPA 0.8)
IVM, Yokogawa Europe Training center
Oct 2014
CRM (customer relationship management, call handling)
Yokogawa Europe Training center
Nov 2014
RTU System Training ABB-RTU560
3W Networks Co. - Dubai.
Sep 2013
Effective Problem Solving & Decision Making
HCCA Premises .Egypt
Jul 2011
SIEMENS S7-300 PLC Hardware and Software Course
GAMAWORKS AUTOMATION, Egypt.
Nov 2008
Advanced PLC and SCADA on LG PLC and GE Ifix 3.5 SCADA
JELECOM Training Center, AIN Shams University.
Feb 2008
Summer training on Telephone Networks Design and Implementation
SIEMENS Telecom, Egypt.
Feb 2006
PIC Micro controller Course
GAMAWORKS AUTOMATION Egypt.
Mar 2009
Microsoft International Computer Driving License (ICDL) Courses (MS Office, MS Excel...)
BMSMALA Training Center, Dokki, Giza
Jun 2007

Hobbies and interests

Triathlon and Edurance sports

3× Ironman 70.3 finisher (2023–2025), active in local sports groups and workplace training communities. I promote a healthy lifestyle, motivate colleagues to join group runs, rides, and fitness challenges, and use endurance sports to reduce stress, build teamwork, and bring positive energy to the workplace.