Sr. Staff Advanced Process Control Engineer

Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.

A Sr. Staff Advanced Process Control Engineer serves as a corporate resource for implementing and maintaining Advanced Process Control (APC) applications on typical units across multiple refineries, supporting APC and similar advanced control applications and interfaces to DCS systems, and consulting with site resources on APC and related issues. This role spends a significant percentage of time working onsite at the various refineries conducting pretests, step tests, inferential sensor development, application commissioning, troubleshooting and operator training activities related to the implementation of APC applications.

At Valero, this role performs duties that support our commitment to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity, and unmatched execution, including\:

• Designs and implements the optimization and maintenance of Aspen DMCplus for new and existing process units. Includes pre-testing of refinery units, making instrument recommendations, inferential sensor development, DCS loop tuning, control strategy improvement, step testing, model development, commissioning, troubleshooting and operator/engineer training for the APC applications.
• Manages multiple parallel projects at a refinery with a mix of site and contract resources.
• Hosts/leads APC network meetings.
• Assists sites in developing and generating corporate monetary and utilization metrics.
• Develops, modifies and audits corporate APC standards.
• Assists and/or leads corporate-sponsored APC training activities.

This position is salaried exempt status, which means you are not eligible for overtime pay.