Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in process engineering or industrial process control.

• 10+ years of APC experience in Oil & Gas, refining, or petrochemical industry.

• Strong hands-on experience with APC platforms (e.g., Aspen) and DCS (Honeywell, Yokogawa, Schneider, Emerson).

• Proven ability to work with operations, DCS & instrumentation maintenance, and engineering teams.

• Offshore certifications may be required (Medical, BOSIET OPITO).

Experience

• Experience with both refining and upstream processes.

• Proficient with upstream and offshore operations, including deep water.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain APC roadmap for assigned sites.

• Oversee, monitor, and sustain APC applications in run mode.

• Track and improve APC performance and benefits.

• Coordinate with site teams on APC troubleshooting and daily management.

• Collaborate with production teams on tuning, operational changes, and shutdown/start-up planning.

• Ensure measurement reliability impacting APC.

• Apply APC standards and best practices across sites.

• Coach and mentor engineers.

• Support deployment of new APC projects.

Preferred Skills

• Multi-site APC support experience.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

• Technical leadership and communication ability.

• Conversational French.

Tools / Software

DMC3 Suite (AspenTech), PI Vision (AVEVA)