Advanced Process Control Applications Engineer

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By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company's ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.

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What role you will play in our team

You will be part of our Process Control Applications team based at our ExxonMobil Houston Campus, where you will be working and collaborating on a global scale. As a member of a broader Process Control Applications Engineering job family, you will be sustaining our suite of process control applications across the globe, improving the unit performance or energy use or be actively involved in scoping, developing and deploying new control applications across our business lines in Product Solutions or Upstream.

What you will do

• Maximize profitability by deploying new applications or remotely sustaining and improving the performance of existing Model Predictive Control (MPC) or Real Time Optimization (RTO) applications
• Assess Advanced Process Control (APC) improvement opportunities for the fleet
• Develop and implement new MPC or RTO applications at ExxonMobil facilities globally
• Collaborate with site personnel to identify, design, and implement improvements to existing MPC or RTO applications to maximize unit performance
• Maintain deep expertise in APC applications and be acknowledged as a leading expert by providing expert technical support to ExxonMobil assets
• Provide technical leadership to enable the advanced process control application related work activities on a global scale
• Serve as a technical mentor to other team members to enhance their functional skill proficiencies and drive competency development strategy in MPC and/or RTO
• Develop and leverage cutting edge tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of advanced process control applications and promote innovative solutions that maximize value and support global business priorities
• Stay abreast with industry standards and best practices to incorporate into our APC applications and facilitate knowledge exchange within the company

About you

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum of BS Chemical Engineering or equivalent degree (post-graduate degrees in process control or optimization are beneficial, but not required)
• Experience working in or around manufacturing/operating plant environment
• Knowledge of refining or chemical processes with 10 + years working experience in/with manufacturing environment (petrochemical experience preferred, but not required)
• Willing to undertake occasional travel (up to 25-30% of the time in a calendar year) as required for the role
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on work experience in implementing or supporting MPC or RTO
• Strong technical knowledge and proven expertise with well-known commercial software for MPC (AspenTech DMC, Honeywell Profit Controller, Yokogawa PACE) and/or RTO (Aveva ROMeo/APO, Aspen GDOT, or comparable flowsheeting and optimization software.
• Highly experienced in collaborating across teams and departments while working remotely with a strong focus on teamwork to drive central engineering improvements
• Exceptional written and interpersonal skills, adjusting communication style as needed to work with individuals at all levels and teams situated across the globe
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Strong leadership skills to successfully promote ideas, coordinate work activities, and plan future application improvements
• Demonstrated organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders

Your benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
  
  
• Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
  
  
• Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as "Flex your Day", providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
  
  
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  
  
• Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
  
  
• Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
  
  
• Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
  
  

More information on our Company's benefits can be found at .

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

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Job ID: 82942

Nearest Major Market: Houston
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