Engineer, Control Systems
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Key details
- Location
- Deer Park, TX, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 6–9 yrs
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 19h ago
Skills
About the role
LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.
Come Join an Inclusive Team
The Control Systems Engineer has the responsibility for supporting and improving the Basic Regulatory, Advanced Process Control (APC) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) applications, as well as identifying and implementing new control applications to improve plant throughput, profitability, stability, reliability, and safety. This position generates a broad range of challenges that require routine interaction with other work groups to ensure maximum value is derived from the control systems.
A Day in the Life
- Develop APC opportunities and assess benefits to be prioritized into a five (5) year APC plan
- Conceive, justify, design, and commission new APC applications and inferential qualities
- Maintain existing APC applications
- Perform audits of controller benefits
- Define and support DCS regulatory control strategies
- Provide technical consultation, formal and informal training, and development of documentation, standards, and procedures in relation to their role
- Act in a support or team role for a variety of projects
- Provide technical consulting and direction to the Process Control Specialists and less experienced Process Control Engineers
- Drives management of change for control applications
- Provide after-hours process control systems & SIS system support as part of an on-call rotation
You Bring This Value
- Bachelor of Science Engineering degree, preferably in chemical engineering
- Minimum of six (6) years of industry experience in the petrochemical industry
- The individual should understand process engineering theory and control theory fundamentals and the ability to model and control petrochemical processes
- This position requires a commitment to learn and understand the development and application of a wide variety of advanced regulatory control strategies, APC applications including multi-variable and model predictive control, development of inferential qualities, and Real-Time Optimization (RTO) applications
- Demonstrated experience with Advanced Process Control in chemical and/or refining facilities is highly preferred
- Candidates must have excellent leadership, ethics, teamwork, and communication skills with a results-oriented commitment. The ability to manage multiple and changing priorities is essential
- This position requires negotiating skills and the ability to resolve conflict across departmental lines to achieve objectives
- Key Applications include Aspen DMCPlus, Emerson DeltaV DCS and SIS, Honeywell Experion, Triconex.
Competencies
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