RTO SME

The individual will be part of the Global Optimization group and will participate at senior level in the following activities:

Location: Al Khobar (Hybrid 3 days in office with customer deployment)

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Implementation of Real Time Optimization (RTO) applications in Refinery and Petrochemical units, based on AVEVA Process Optimization (APO) software.
• Maintenance of RTO applications installed base.
• Act as technical interface with customers, establishing professional relationships to ensure that the project requirements are fully defined and agreed.
• Ensure that the engineered solution meets project requirements in terms of functionality, standards, quality, and supporting documentation and implementation process at minimum. Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems that arise during project execution.
• Monitor and control assigned work scope against the project plan, ensure effective change control, and identify risks/opportunities.
• Reviewing process flow diagrams and P&IDs, contributing to process discussions, completing database or schematic changes, implementing complex calculations for data analysis, manipulating data files, and collections lists accurately.
• Assist and eventually participate on other AVEVA Project Areas.

Essential Qualifications

• Chemical Process and/or Control Engineer with 10+ years of relevant experience in Optimization of Refinery and/or Petrochemical operations and/or planning.
• Expert user of rigorous refinery process simulation packages or expert in advanced control applied to Refinery and Petrochemical or both.
• Fluency in the English language. Knowledge of Arabic language will be an added advantage.

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with PI Asset Framework and PI Vision.
• Programming skills in Tcl, Python, Excel VBA, SQL would be a plus.
• Familiarity with Power BI.