Advanced Process Control Specialist

Advanced Process Control Specialist

Job Purpose / Objective

Support company operations through ongoing monitoring, analysis, and improvement of the Advanced Process Control (APC) schemes to ensure optimized operational performance and asset integrity.

Key Accountabilities

APC Monitoring & Improvement

• Monitor and analyse the mid and long-term technical performance of APC against internal and external benchmarks to ensure ongoing optimisation.
• Identify recurring APC problems and/or limitations and proposes initiatives to ensure the development of sustainable solutions and capture various optimization opportunities.
• Participate and lead Management of Change (MOC) for advance process control related changes, support other plant, and process changes from a process control perspective.
• Track mid and long-term process technical performance using – among others – predefined and agreed technical and economical KPIs and assesses process control impact on the actual performance.
• Provide guidance to Operations on the general and long-term advance process control strategy for specific units or sub-units to ensure optimized units.
• Conduct internal and external process control and APC studies to ensure company alignment to industry leading practices.
• Ensure that the ethylene unit and other units’ APC are optimized and operating at high uptime.
• Participate and help lead the digital transformation initiatives for company.

Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices in order to increase productivity and operational efficiency.
• Implement all relevant Section’s policies, processes, procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

Quality, Health, Security, Safety and Environment

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security and environmental procedures and controls across the Department to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality products/services.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet departmental requirements, policies, and standards.

Qualifications & Experience

Education

Required:
Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or Control Engineering

Preferred:

Experience

Required:
Minimum 5 years of experience in the O&G Industry, out of which 3 years at an Analyst level in Advanced Process Control. Required ethylene and polyethylene manufacturing experience.

Preferred:
Experience in Petrochemicals Industry