Lead Process Engineer
Description
About the Job
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Our Potential Opportunity
INTECH Automation Intelligence is seeking a Lead Process Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in supporting Industrial Digitalization Solutions across industries such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Utilities, Mining, Cement, Metals, and Manufacturing. The role requires a strong process engineering professional with hands-on experience in Advanced Process Control (APC), Model Predictive Control (MPC), process optimization, and plant performance improvement. INTECH’s commitment to providing cutting-edge Digital Solutions ensures you will contribute to transformative projects that enhance operational efficiency and productivity.
Our Digital Solutions are a testament to our dedication to driving innovation and optimizing industrial processes, reflecting our focus on excellence, reliability, and overcoming industry challenges.
What You’ll Lead and Deliver
- Lead process engineering activities for FEED, detailed engineering, and digital solution projects involving Advanced Process Control (APC).
- Conduct site surveys, process walkdowns, operational data collection, and process performance assessments.
- Review and interpret PFDs, P&IDs, operating philosophies, process data, DCS configurations, and historical plant data.
- Establish process operating envelopes, constraints, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities.
- Perform process engineering, mass and energy balance, hydraulic, and other relevant calculations to validate design changes and APC implementations.
- Develop process design bases, process descriptions, process narratives, APC control philosophies, FAT/SAT procedures, and KPI/performance reports.
- Perform instrumentation and measurement-gap assessments required for APC implementation.
- Develop and validate baseline KPIs for APC performance evaluation.
- Identify and rationalize Controlled Variables (CVs), Manipulated Variables (MVs), and Disturbance Variables (DVs) for APC applications.
- Translate process objectives into MPC/APC control strategies and optimization objectives.
- Support the development and validation of dynamic and multivariable process models.
- Analyze plant step-test data to determine process gains, dead times, dynamics, and variable interactions.
- Support the development of inferential/soft sensors for process variables where physical analyzers are unavailable.
- Review APC model performance and recommend model and controller improvements.
- Work closely with APC engineers to ensure models accurately represent actual plant behavior.
- Identify process equipment performance limitations and operating constraints.
- Review existing regulatory control strategies and identify opportunities for APC implementation.
- Support PID tuning, cascade, and ratio control strategy development.
- Review control loop performance and controller health.
- Define APC/DCS interface requirements, alarms, operating limits, and interlocks, coordinating with Instrumentation, Control, and DCS engineers for implementation.
- Review HMI/control graphics and operating procedures from a process perspective.
- Participate in FAT, SAT, site commissioning, plant step testing, and APC deployment.
- Validate APC models against actual plant behavior and support the transition from open-loop testing to closed-loop APC operation.
- Monitor APC KPIs and optimize controller and model performance.
- Troubleshoot process-related APC issues during commissioning and performance phases.
- Support customer training, technical documentation, and final project handover.
- Lead and coordinate process engineering activities across multidisciplinary project teams and client stakeholders.
Requirements
To Be Successful in This Role, You Must Have:
Experience:
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6–8 years of relevant process engineering experience.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in process o