Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer - United States

Overview:

In this APC Engineer role at Pine Bend Refinery, you will advance and prioritize APC/RTO opportunities to create sustainable value and broaden APC capabilities across units. You'll translate engineering know-how into cross-unit optimization solutions, exploring new technologies to strengthen competitive position. You will support model development and software solutions to enhance availability, performance, and reliability, while collaborating with operations and engineering stakeholders to pursue high-value improvements. This role offers influence over optimization strategy and hands-on problem solving with cross-functional teams. Compensation / Benefitsmedicaldentalvisionretirementpaid vacation/time offeducational assistance

Responsibilities:
• Partner with optimization, operations, process, and vendor teams for model prioritization and development
• Design, develop, build, test, commission, and document APC applications using DMC3 and other tools for refinery optimization
• Provide insights and short-term support for system optimization and oil flow planning with operations
• Advocate for emerging technologies (e.g., AI for process control) to enhance Pine Bend's position
• Manage relationships with operations to maximize refinery profitability
• Educate refinery personnel on APC benefits and multi-variable control, troubleshoot APC/RTO issues, and implement improvements
• Maintain communication with board operators, engineers, and managers to sustain high model utilization within optimized constraints
• Communicate value captured, opportunities lost, and control system health for each process area

Key requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or 10+ years of process control experience 5+ years as a process or controls engineer
• Experience communicating effectively with engineers, managers, operators, and contractorseffective communicationcross-functional collaborationproblem solving
• AspenTech APC toolsRTO applicationsprocess modeling