The city is one of the biggest cities in Saudi Arabia. The city has a lot of job opportunities especially for professionals with a lot of experience. The city is a major sea port in Saudi Arabia and it handles all of that cargo that is being exported or imported by the country.

The port provides a lot of jobs such as drivers for vehicles that will be being unloaded from export from Japan. Crane drivers those that help in loading heavy tanks into the ships. Tax and revenue collection experts are needed to make sure all the cargo that enters or leaves the country is paid for.
Freight agents, people who deal with the clearance and delivery of goods to their destination upon arrival at the port city. Security officers are needed to safe guard the goods that are on the docks of the port. Public service jobs that one can find in the city include customs service; engineers are needed to service the ships that are in the dock.

The jobs that one can find in the ships are chef, ship crew or being the captain of the ship. There is a lot of paperwork that is to be done in the docks and thus one will find that they are a lot of administrative jobs from secretaries, administration assistants and clerks. The inner part of the city away from the ports they are a lot of companies that are based in the city that have operations by the port and the offices in the city act as the head offices. This is most of the administrative work is done. The jobs that one can find in the city include accountancy, auditing, managers and chief executive officers.

The city has other jobs that are in the public sector that are mainly kept for local people and these have to do with social work and the only way to do them as a foreigner is to join a non governmental organization. The city has a lot of job opportunities especially if you have a technical skill that can be used at port side.