Description
Design, implement, and optimize process measurement, automation, and control systems for chemical manufacturing (e.g., fuels, plastics, detergents, paper), applying chemistry, physics, and engineering to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant operations.
- • Develop and maintain control and safety procedures, interlocks, and operating guidelines for equipment and unit operations.
- • Determine optimal control strategies, sequences, and recipes for operations such as mixing, heat exchange, distillation, and drying.
- • Prepare estimates, schedules, and progress and performance reports for control-system projects and upgrades.
- • Direct technicians and contractors during installation, commissioning, and upgrades of DCS/PLC systems and instrumentation.
- • Develop and test control strategies using simulation, pilot plants, and FAT/SAT before plant deployment.
- • Design and implement advanced control (APC/MPC) and optimization for separation and energy systems to improve yield and efficiency.
- • Research, evaluate, and apply new control algorithms, analytics, and automation technologies to enhance process performance.
- • Design and specify measurement and control systems (DCS/PLC/SCADA) based on lab, pilot, and plant data.
- • Develop P&IDs, control narratives, I/O lists, loop sheets, network topology, and control panel layouts.
- • Troubleshoot instrumentation, control loops, and automation issues affecting process stability and product quality.
- • Evaluate control and alarm performance, implement alarm management, and ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and cybersecurity standards.
- • Perform loop tuning, sensor calibration, and continuous monitoring of key variables (temperature, pressure, flow, composition) and KPIs.
- • Analyze real-time and historical data (historians) to detect deviations, drive optimization, and support management reporting.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
