Senior Advanced Process Control Engineer
TotalEnergiesAbout the role
Context & Environment
Join our dynamic US Refining & Chemicals Technical Team as a Sr. Advanced Process Control Engineer at our Port Arthur Platform!
What does joining the Advanced Process Control team look like?
It’s about working with a team to optimize industrial processes and drive efficiency through advanced control systems.
It’s about collaborating with various departments, including operations and technical personnel, to implement and maintain APC applications ensuring maximum profitability and excellence.
It’s being a part of a great team and having the opportunity to make an impact.
What does it take to be a Sr. Advanced Process Control Engineer?
It is about leadership, coordination, teamwork, and execution. It is having knowledge and understanding of the processes and controls that impact them. It's about being able to work with stakeholders to ensure the work is completed in a timely fashion.
Read on for more, and don’t hesitate to apply today!
Activities
- Direct the continual improvement of the refinery’s basic and advanced control systems to ensure their applicability as operational production conditions change to keep the process units running at maximum profitability.
- Develop a close working relationship with Console Operators, Process Supervisors, Process Support Engineers and Planning & Logistics personnel to better understand operating objectives, major manipulated variables, disturbances and constraints. Use this information to identify potential APC opportunities.
- Provide APC consultation to other refinery work groups to ensure quality installations that meet refinery standards.
- Exchange information with other Total sites (US/ Europe) on basic/ advanced regulatory and advanced process control applications to share specialized knowledge to efficiently and effectively solve Total group control challenges.
- Continuously study, investigate and evaluate new automation technologies and techniques to determine their applicability in refinery applications.
- Train and develop interns and employees - promoting teamwork, open communications and technical excellence. Provide a high level of cross training that ensures that positions are adequately covered in times of absence of group members.
Candidate Profile
Qualifications:
- B. S. Chemical Engineering or equivalent experience, and 5+ years experience as a process support engineer
- Five years experience applying multivariable predi
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