Job Title:
Advanced Process Control Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Advanced Process Control Professional to join our team.
* Routine monitoring of APCs – this includes troubleshooting of APC related issues, direct communication with process engineers and panel operators to address any issues affecting their ability to keep the APCs online, ensuring the optimization of the APCs are being met and evaluating the performance of soft sensors (inferentials) to ensure they do not drift from laboratory readings.
* Reporting to relevant stakeholders about the APC performance – this includes a weekly APC report, monthly inferential and APC stewardship reports and monthly, quarterly and year-to-date KPIs.
* Development of new APC solutions and maintenance of existing applications. With the APC team being regional, this may involve travel to client sites.
* APC training of operators and other interested parties.
* Data analysis – this is done in Excel or a number of different applications such as SEEQ or Honeywell Suite of products.
* Support software and hardware upgrade activities that involve APC related equipment.
* Other related duties as required.
Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, process engineering, electrical engineering, control systems engineering or a related field.
* 3+ years experience with OSIsoft PI Historian for real-time data acquisition, storage, analysis and visualization in an industrial or process control environment.
* 5+ years experience with Honeywell Experion PKS, ESVT/EST, Honeywell TPS / TDC3000.
* Process controllers: C300, C200, HPM, APM.
* All variety of third-party PLC/devices integration to DCS.
* Industrial communication: Modbus RTU & Modbus TCP/IP, serial communication RS 485, RS 422, RS 232.
* Networking skills: fault-tolerant Ethernet (FTE), Ethernet.
* Configure and administer Windows domains (Experion and TPS domains).
* OPC connectivity between process control servers and other third-party servers.
* MS Excel-macro based tools.
* Experience configuring, implementing and trouble-shooting process control schemes in Honeywell TDC3000 (basic control algorithms and CL/AM code/PMX/basic control algorithms).