Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer

Location

Richmond, BC | Canada

Job description

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

Job Summary / Introduction 
ANDRITZ stands for passion, partnership, perspectives and versatility - core values to which the company is committed. The listed Group is headquartered in Graz, Austria. With almost 170 years of experience, 29,000 employees, and more than 280 locations in over 40 countries worldwide, ANDRITZ is a reliable and competent partner and helps its customers to achieve their corporate and sustainability goals.

As a technology leader with extensive and long-term experience in supplying industrial equipment, control, and optimization solutions for various industries, ANDRITZ is combining its process and equipment expertise with the latest advancements in the digital era. The result of this powerful combination of products and services in the industrial digitalization sector is ANDRITZ Digital Solution platform Metris.

If you are you interested in working in a passionate and innovative company with topics such as IIoT, Industry 4.0, Advanced Process Control & Data Analytics, then you've come to the right place!

While acting as the full-time, onsite ANDRITZ representative to the customer, the Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer is responsible for identifying and executing opportunities to improve and optimize the performance of the mill. This will be achieved by suggesting modifications of process control, conducting data analysis through the Metris All In-one platform, develop/deploy Advanced Process Control (APC)Strategies, tuning PID control loops and identification of opportunities for improvement in the process. 

Responsibilities

• Execute optimization projects
• Process Data Analysis for determination of causes of process variability
• Identify opportunities and propose solutions for savings and efficiency enhancement
• Identify process interaction or disturbances
• Design APC solutions, including control strategies, and implement our technologies to optimize process performance 
• Generate control narratives for APC projects. 
• PID loops assessment and tuning parameters 
• Advanced data analytics for Metris platform-based virtual sensors 
• Work with control room operators and process engineers to complete commissioning and control response tests
• Continuous monitoring to ensure benefits over the time 
• Liase with other ANDRITZ professionals 

Skills & Knowledge

• Degree or diploma in relevant engineering discipline
• Knowledge in automation and control (PID Controller, tuning control loops, process types: self-regulated / integrator; process modeling: 1st order, 2nd order, dead time)
• Basic knowledge of Pulp & Paper industrial processes
• Minimum five (5) years’ experience in automation
• Microcomputers (Windows, outlook and office package)
• Basic knowledge of instrumentation 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
• This position requires extensive travel up to 50%
  

Salary range: 80,000 to 115,000 based on a 37.5-hour work week.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

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