Process Simulation Twin & Optimization Engineer

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
• Lead the development, deployment, and sustainment of PST that integrate real-time process data with rigorous equation-oriented or sequential simulation engines in alignment with corporate objectives.
• Configure and troubleshoot the connectivity between plant historians, laboratory information systems, and simulation software to ensure seamless data ingestion and reconciliation.
• Utilize PST to perform automated monitoring of facility health, detecting deviations between ideal performance and actual plant operations to identify opportunity gaps.
• Develop and maintain thermodynamic models and mathematical equations that accurately represent the behavior of various processes ensuring the PST accurately reflects the current state of the facility (including heat exchanger fouling, catalyst decay, etc.).
• Perform offline engineering studies using PST to analyze complex operational problems, debottleneck constraints, and conduct "what-if" scenarios based on current operating conditions.
• Act as the technical liaison between data teams and Operations/Process Engineering teams, leading technical sessions on model architecture, data quality, and commissioning.
• Lead process optimization sessions to de-bottleneck key process units such as CDU/VDU, Hydrocrackers, Catalytic crackers, Diesel Hydrotreaters, Isomerization.
• Benchmark process optimization KPIs with 15+ operating facilities and provide development of programs, processes, guidelines and best practices.
• Provide subject matter expertise to operating facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering teams by consulting, providing awareness sessions, and participating and leading technical exchanges and conferences.