APC & Alarm Management Engineer

Basic Function

This position has the responsibility for supporting and improving the Basic Regulatory Control, as well as identifying and implementing new advanced control applications to improve plant throughput, profitability, stability, reliability, and safety. This position is expected to create, monitor and ensure Advance Process Control (APC) applications are functioning as desired. 
Additional responsibility is to lead the activity of the Alarm Management (AM), in accord to LYB Corporate related standard, with the aim of increasing Plant staff promptness of reaction to potential safety upset/deviation revealed from instruments. Core related activities are made of rationalizing, prioritizing DCS alarms and monitoring their numbers trend along the time.    
This position generates a broad range of challenges that require routine interaction with other work groups to ensure maximum value and safety improvement are derived from the control systems and alarms management.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Oversees APC and AM implementations, providing regular maintenance and troubleshooting or resolving issues as they arise, in strong cooperation with maintenance, engineering and process departments
• Conceives, justifies, designs, and commission new APC & Optimization applications and inferential qualities 
• Defines and support DCS regulatory control strategies and improvements 
• Provides technical consultation, formal and informal training, and development of documentation, standards, and procedures in relation to their role 
• Develops APC opportunities and assess benefits to be prioritized into a long range plan 
• Performs audits of controller benefits 
• Develops, optimizes and maintains alarms database and recurrencies trends, in accord to Corporate standard

What we offer

We offer an environment where we encourage personal and professional growth and where you will be rewarded for your performance and results. You will have the possibility to work with specialist on all fields to develop innovative solutions and to extend your national and international network. LyondellBasell is committed to advancing diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) to ensure a positive experience for all employees.

• Competitive salary package
• Health and Pension Fund
• Welfare Platform
• Flexible work environment
• Continuous learning and development programs 

Min. Qualifications

Education:

• University Degree in Chemical Engineering (preferred) or Electronic Engineering

Work experience:

• 0-4 years in industrial process control systems optimization and/or design

Languages:

• Good English knowledge, preferred Italian as mother tongue.

Technical Skills

• Statistics and probability
• Engineering knowledge of instruments and their field installation in a Chemical environment Atex classified
• Engineering knowledge of Digital Control Systems (DCS)
• Familiarity with common plant documentation (e.g. PFD, P&ID)

Competencies