The key expectation is to combine traditional process engineering and plant operations expertise with advanced digital and analytical skills to drive efficiency, innovation, and safety. Project domains - Chemical / Refinery / Petrochemical / Oil & Gas customers of Honeywell within & outside India.
We are seeking a Process Engineer to focus on operational optimization solutions based on AI for our customers utilizing the Experion DCS system. The ideal candidate will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and collaborate closely with Data Scientists and Experion System Engineers to define and validate the solutions.
Active contribution in customer workshop to define problems/probable solutions, working with Data engineers, Data scientists to engineer the solution, interface with Honeywell product development as needed during product feature enhancement/ validation. Needs to travel to customer locations to perform workshop, deployment, testing of the solutions.
Responsibilities- Expectations in this role:
- Lead the workshops: Review the plant operation; Drive to define operational problems/ probable solutions with customers; Prepare reports.
- Define problems using data: Perform Data Analysis - history, Alarm & Events, P&ID, PFD, Graphics and define impacted parameters and corelated parameters. (eg. Instruments/ equipment’s contributing to a particular Alarm, Define critical operating parameters, define Alarm Rationalization)
- Define Equipment to Equipment to Instrument relation: Using P&ID and PFD, define process relationship, Its impact on upstream and Downstream
- Validate Strategy: Validate strategy defined by Data Scientist and align with before proceeding with AI Models.
- Validate AI Model outcome: Validate AI Model outcome based on historical data or process Simulation (DCS or OTS) data.
- Customer Testing:
- Reports: Review fortnightly or monthly usage/feedback from customer and share a report about effectiveness.
- Optimization: Work with product development team for any feature improvements, Validation and rectifying any issues in the product.
Offline : Review and Test solution by simulation on DCS System along with Customer.
Onsite: Deploy onsite and demonstrate the results to customer operations team along with DCS System Engineer.
Qualifications- Qualification: BE / B. Tech Chemical or Petrochemical
- Experience : 8 to 10 yrs of experience in process plant (Chemical / Oil & Gas / refinery/ Petrochemical)Technical Skills :
- Must have plant operation experience (Predictive or preventive maintenance), Incident Investigation Root Cause Analysis (process trip, equipment failure), Startup shutdown experience
- Must have experience with Process plant equipment (pump compressor s column reactors furnace valve transmitters) operation (Start/ stop/trip/ shutdown/ sequence/ interlocks/ alarms/ safety)
- Must have experience in Process Abnormalities management (detection / prediction /recovery procedure guidance & implementation)
- Detailed process Knowledge, Plant Procedures, Safety, Process Control, Alarm Rationalization & Optimization – Alarm Management, Design & Simulation
- Preparation of Standard Operation (SOP) & Maintenance procedures
- Knowledge of P&ID, PFD, Interlocks, Control Narratives, Operation Philosophy
- Exposure to distributed control systems (DCS) and safety instrumented systems (SIS) as a user / configuration/ integration/ simulation
- Exposure to below will be added advantage
- Data Historian (Aspen21 or IP21 or PHD or RTDBMS) and Analytics
- APM
- APC (Advanced Process Control)
- Alarm Management
- Knowledge of Process simulation/OTS will be added advantage
- Soft Skills :
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively translate complex technical concepts between process operators, engineers from other disciplines, and data scientists.
- Data Analytical mindset
- The willingness to adopt iterative, flexible development processes to keep pace with rapid technological advancements
- As a subject matter expert, you will provide technical leadership to other engineers, fostering a collaborative and learning-oriented environment
- Must be ready to learn different process plants and work on those solutions.
- Ready for travel across the world
Skills Required
- BE / B. Tech Chemical or Petrochemical
- 8 to 10 years of experience in process plant (Chemical / Oil & Gas / refinery/ Petrochemical)
- Must have plant operation experience (Predictive or preventive maintenance)
- Must have experience with Process plant equipment operation
- Must have experience in Process Abnormalities management
- Knowledge of P&ID, PFD, Interlocks, Control Narratives, Operation Philosophy
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
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