Senior RTO Consultant

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Job Title: Senior Consultant

Location: Madrid

Employment Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, commission, and maintainAVEVA Process Optimization (APO) Real-Time Optimization (RTO) Closed Loop applicationsfor ethylene/steam cracker plants.
• Develop, validate, and maintainrigorous process models of ethylene cracker complexes, including cracking furnaces, transfer line exchangers, quench systems, compression trains, acid gas removal, drying, cold section, refrigeration systems, and product separation/fractionation.
• Apply strongethylene cracker process knowledgeto represent feedstock effects, furnace severity, coil outlet temperature, steam-to-hydrocarbon ratio, yields, energy consumption, equipment constraints, and operating economics.
• Configure and troubleshootonline model execution, including plant data acquisition, data validation/reconciliation, model parameter estimation, model-to-plant matching, optimization, and automated execution sequences.
• Develop and maintaineconomic optimization casesconsidering feed costs, product values, utilities, energy efficiency, furnace constraints, compressor limitations, equipment capacities, product specifications, and plant operating constraints.
• Implement and commissionClosed Loop RTO, integrating APO with plant APC/DCS systems to automatically transfer optimized operating targets and setpoints while maintaining appropriate operating and safety constraints.
• Work closely withOperations, Process Engineering, APC, Planning and Optimization teamsto identify optimization opportunities and translate them into sustainable closed-loop strategies.
• Analyze RTO solutions and identify theactive constraints, economic drivers and operational trade-offsresponsible for recommended operating changes.
• PerformRTO performance monitoring and benefit tracking, including application availability, model accuracy, optimization effectiveness, closed-loop utilization, constraint activity, and realized economic benefits.
• Diagnose and resolve issues affecting RTO performance, includingmodel mismatch, instrumentation problems, data quality, APC limitations, equipment changes, feedstock changes and changing operating modes.
• Supportsite commissioning, performance testing, operator/engineer training and handoverof RTO Closed Loop applications.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other RTO engineers, particularly inethylene cracker modelling, optimization and Closed Loop implementation.

Preferred Technical Background

• Chemical Engineering or equivalent process engineering degree.
• Strong experience inethylene/steam cracker process engineering, simulation or optimization.
• Hands-on experience withAVEVA Process Optimization (APO/ROMeo)or equivalent rigorous RTO technology.
• Experience withrigorous steady-state process simulation, data reconciliation, parameter estimation and nonlinear optimization.
• Understanding ofAPC/RTO integration and Closed Loop optimization architectures.
• Experience with plant historians and industrial data infrastructure such asAVEVA PI Systemis desirable.
• Ability to work directly with refinery/petrochemical Operations and Engineering teams during implementation and commissioning.

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