Advanced Process Control Specialist
Your tasks
Support operations through ongoing monitoring, analysis, and improvement of advanced process control (APC) schemes to ensure optimized operational performance and asset integrity.
- 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 limitations, proposing initiatives to develop sustainable solutions and capture optimization opportunities.
- Participate and lead management of change (MOC) for advanced process control related changes, and support other plant and process changes from a process control perspective.
- Track mid and long-term process technical performance using predefined and agreed technical and economical KPIs, assessing process control impact on actual performance.
- Provide guidance to operations on general and long-term advanced process control strategy for specific units or sub-units to ensure optimized units.
- Conduct internal and external process control and APC studies to ensure alignment with industry leading practices.
- Ensure that the ethylene unit and other units' APC are optimized and operating at high uptime.
- Participate and help lead digital transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices to increase productivity and operational efficiency.
- Implement relevant policies, processes, procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security, and environmental procedures and controls to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality products and services.
- Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet departmental requirements, policies, and standards.
- Support the development of local national employees (applicable to expatriate employees only).
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or control engineering.
- Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in the oil & gas industry, with at least 3 years at an analyst level in advanced process control. Required experience in ethylene and polyethylene manufacturing. Experience in the petrochemicals industry is preferred.
- Languages: English (proficient). Arabic (working knowledge) preferred.
- Communicates effectively
- Demonstrates accountability
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Acts with agility
- Committed to safety
- Leads by example
- Develops others
- Drives change
- Plant performance
- Process engineering management
- Continuous improvement
- Data and information analysis and interpretation