Process Control Applications Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced control strategies, including PID tuning, MPC, and multivariable control.
• Lead small- and medium-scale control system projects, managing scope, schedule, and quality.
• Analyze process data, troubleshoot performance gaps, and recommend data-driven optimization.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, process engineering, and IT teams.
• Ensure control work meets safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop, validate, and deploy DMC controllers and RTO models for complex processing units.
• Lead plant testing, model identification, controller tuning, and commissioning.
• Optimize process performance using constraint management and economic objectives.
• Monitor controller performance with operating personnel and support operator engagement.
• Integrate DMC and RTO with planning, scheduling, and plant information systems.
• Use control theory, dynamic modeling, and simulation to improve reliability and profitability.
• Coordinate tasks, timelines, communications, and control-system integration with plant information systems.

Functional skills

• Real-time optimization technology and practices.
• Multivariable constraint control and MPC technology and practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrated capability in real-time optimization technology and practices.
• Demonstrated capability in multivariable constraint control and MPC technology and practices.
• Ability to independently execute and optimize control projects.
• Ability to collaborate with operations, maintenance, process engineering, and IT teams.