Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer

Job description

Solvay is a multi-specialty chemical company committed to developing chemistry that addresses key societal challenges. We innovate and partner with customers in diverse global end markets. With over 1,500 products, Specialty Polymers offers the widest range of high performance polymers in the world, allowing tailor-made solutions such as pushing the limits of metal replacement in the electronics, automotive, aircraft and healthcare industries. The GBU has unparalleled expertise in three technologies: aromatic polymers, high barrier polymers and fluoropolymers.

Job Overview and Responsibilities:

The APC engineer is the technical responsible for Advanced Process Control projects development, design, implementation and maintenance in order to ensure safe and profitable manufacturing processes.
The position is based in Spinetta and mainly dedicated to Spinetta Production Units, but can be involved in projects at GBU level if requested.

The main tasks and responsibilities that the position has to perform are:

Development, Design, implementation, monitoring  and maintenance of Process controls routines and methods in order to:

Ensure high performances and quality of the Automation Process Control at the best cost in accordance with applicable safety and environmental Solvay group state of the art procedures

Verify and ensure the correctness and completeness of the documentation produced internally  and by the Outsourcing contractors

Management of automation project in order to ensure the plant manufacturing activities:

New Units or processes, extension or modifications of existing installations in collaboration with Manufacturing, Technology and Research and Engineering departments

Technical management of the Projects from basic engineering to start-up in cooperation with the relevant involved functions

Technical development, implementation  testing and start-up of automation and process control systems

Participate in the selection of the technologies to be used for new applications and extensions of current/new APC projects following the directions of the Solvay Group on providers and State-of-the-Art Best Practices.

Education and Experience:

The person filling this position has an experienced knowledge or willingness to develop  the following fields:

Process control:

Plant Dynamic Simulation

Process control algorithm development, prototyping and implementation

Classical control and signal processing theory

Process Engineering:

Instrumentation knowledge (valves, actuators, transmitters theory and practice of measure)

Thermodynamics (Mass and Energy balances, Reaction Kinetics…)

Fluid Mechanics (Reynolds…, Bernoulli,…Pipes Equations,)

Equipment knowledge (Pumps, compressors…)

Process Dynamic  Modeling

Industrial IT:

Software  for DCS, PLC,SIS (Graphcet, flow-diagrams, functional analysis)

Engineering flow and documentation  management

Basic requirements and specification
      Detailed Engineering development and follow up

Skills:

The APC engineer shall have and demonstrate skills in:

Development and industrialization of Automation solution from process design to implementation and start-up

Outsourcing resources Management

Innovation

Problem Solving

Team working

Process Simulation and Study

DCS basic level skill 

Fluent EnglishAny other language is a plus