Senior Advanced Process Control Engineer – PE&O
Posted on: 6 Apr 2023
Sulphur, LA
Job Description
SUMMARY
We have a great opportunity for a Senior Advanced Process Control Engineer to be a part of our DCS team. This role is responsible for support of process control systems within operating units for Westlake petrochemical plants, including process model development, loop tuning, and continuous improvements. You will be leading and executing projects related to process control systems and continuous improvements.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Analyze the process dynamics, develop, implement, and maintain advanced process control applications, advanced PID control, interlocks, and sequence control
Proactively monitoring and tuning of process control performance including base layer controller uptime, advanced process controller uptime against targets. Develop and implement improvement plans
Support capital improvements to the unit’s APC applications
Troubleshoot respective unit’s sustained regulatory, advanced regulatory and advanced process control problems
Re-evaluate control approaches and performance due to changes in plant operating conditions
Work with control engineers to interface advanced process controller systems to distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, and laboratory information systems
Support units during turnaround events
Develop and implement changes following site management of change process
Report on usage of APC systems against targets
Work closely with board operators and process engineers to identify and implement improvements
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
Minimum of 8 years of experience in a refinery, chemical, or petrochemical plant
Experience with advanced process control applications (multivariable control, complex control loops, control logic)
Ability to read and interpret process flowsheet diagrams, P&IDs, and control logic diagrams
Working knowledge of software application such as AspenTech DMC3, DMCplus, PIMs, SPYRO, Pavilion
Good communication skills (oral/written)
Good work planning skills to handle multiple task with competing priorities.
Able to work independently and as a team player.
Willing and able to obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC).
Westlake Chemical
Houston, TX
Westlake Chemical Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers, and building products worldwide. It operates through two segments, Olefins and Vinyls. The Olefins segment offers polyethylene, styrene monomers, and various ethylene co-products, as well as sells propylene, crude butadiene, pyrolysis gasoline, and hydrogen products. The Vinyls segment provides specialty and commodity polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomers, ethylene dichloride, chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated derivative, and ethylene products. This segment also manufactures and sells PVC compounds and building products fabricated from PVC, including residential siding, trim and moulding, pipe and fittings for various water, sewer and industrial applications, profiles for windows and doors, decking products, film for various inflatables, wall covering tapes, roofing applications, and composite roof tiles.
Westlake Chemical Corporation offers its products to a range of customers, including chemical processors, plastics fabricators, small construction contractors, municipalities, and supply warehouses in various consumer and industrial markets, such as flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, water treatment, refrigerants, and residential and commercial construction, as well as other durable and non-durable goods. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Westlake Chemical Corporation is a subsidiary of TTWF LP.
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IndustryManufacturing
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No. of Employees9,500+
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