Advanced Process Control Specialist

1. JOB DETAILS

2. JOB DIMENSIONS

3. JOB PURPOSE / OBJECTIVE

Support company operations through ongoing monitoring, analysis, and improvement of the Advanced Process Control (APC) schemes to ensure optimized operational performance and asset integrity.

4.1 KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Monitor and analyse the mid and long-term technical performance of APC against internal and external benchmarks to ensure ongoing optimisation.


• Identify recurring APC problems and/or limitations and proposes initiatives to ensure the development of sustainable solutions and capture various optimization opportunities. 


• Participate and lead Management of Change (MOC) for advance process control related changes, support other plant, and process changes from a process control perspective.


• Track mid and long-term process technical performance using – among others – predefined and agreed technical and economical KPIs and assesses process control impact on the actual performance.


• Provide guidance to Operations on the general and long-term advance process control strategy for specific units or sub-units to ensure optimized units.


• Conduct internal and external process control and APC studies to ensure company alignment to industry leading practices.


• Ensure that the ethylene unit and other units’ APC are optimized and operating at high uptime.


•  Participate and help lead the digital transformation initiatives for company. 

• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for the continuous improvement of systems, processes, and practices in order to increase productivity and operational efficiency.


• Implement all relevant Section’s policies, processes, procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and relevant quality, health, safety, security and environmental procedures and controls across the Department to guarantee employee safety and delivery of high-quality products/services

4.2 KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Contribute to the preparation of timely and accurate reports to meet departmental requirements, policies, and standards.

• Contribute to the development of Qatari employees. This accountability is applicable to expatriate employees only

4.3 KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

5. QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

6. WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

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  I&E Technical

  
  


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  Projects

  
  

External

• Consultants

7. Competencies

8. DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description is provided for general informational purposes and it is in no way restrictive as to the overall work requirements that may be prescribed by Management. It is intended to be used as a guide only. It has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is neither designed to contain nor be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.