Overview
Advanced Process Control Specialist Jobs in Doha, Qatar at Qatar Chemical Company
Title: Advanced Process Control Specialist
Company: Qatar Chemical Company
Location: Doha, Qatar
JOB PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE
Support company operations through ongoing monitoring, analysis, and improvement of the Advanced Process Control (APC) schemes to ensure optimized operational performance and asset integrity.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
APC Monitoring & Improvement
- Monitor and analyze the mid and long-term technical performance of APC against internal and external benchmarks to ensure ongoing optimization.
- Identify recurring APC problems and/or limitations and proposes initiatives to ensure the development of sustainable solutions and capture various optimization opportunities.
- Participate and lead Management of Change (MOC) for advance process control related changes, support other plant, and process changes from a process control perspective.
- Track mid and long-term process technical performance using – among others – predefined and agreed technical and economical KPIs and assesses process control impact on the actual performance.
- Provide guidance to Operations on the general and long-term advance process control strategy for specific units or sub-units to ensure optimized units.
- Conduct internal and external process control and APC studies to ensure company alignment to industry leading practices.
- Ensure that the ethylene unit and other units’ APC are optimized and operating at high uptime.
- Participate and help lead the digital transformation initiatives for company.
Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices in order to increase productivity and operational efficiency.
- Implement all relevant Section’s policies, processes, procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
Quality, Health, Security, Safety and Environment
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security and environmental procedures and controls across the Department to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality products/services
Reporting
- Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet departmental requirements, policies, and standards.
Qatarization
- Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This accountability is applicable to expatriate employees only
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
Education
Required : Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering or Control Engineering
Experience
Required : Minimum 5 years of experience in the O&G Industry, out of which 3 years at an Analyst level in Advanced Process Control. Required ethylene and polyethylene manufacturing experience.
Preferred : Experience in Petrochemicals Industry