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Chemical Engineer (with Control)
Job summary
A leading engineering firm seeks a Chemical Engineer with Control Engineering expertise to join their Optimization team in Madrid. The role involves implementing and maintaining Real Time Optimization applications, customer consultancy, and the analysis of process simulation results. Candidates should have a relevant degree, strong problem-solving abilities, and proficiency in English, with additional languages being a plus.
Qualifications
- Degree in Control Engineering, Chemical Engineering or similar required.
- Fluency in English and excellent communication skills necessary.
- Experience in simulating distillation towers and refinery processes is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Implement Real Time Optimization applications.
- Perform maintenance on online process models and ensure functionality.
- Maintain relationships with customers to return maximum value.
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Astek
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23.07.2025
06.09.2025
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From ASTEK Iberia, and for our international partner's team, we are looking for a motivated and experienced Control Engineer who has a taste for Chemical Engineering, or a Chemical Engineer with a taste for Control Engineering, to join our Optimization team in Madrid.
You will evolve in an international environment and with the global leader in engineering and industrial software.
Principal Accountabilities
- Real Time Optimization (RTO) application implementations
Participation in new online modeling projects with the intention of developing skills for advancement. Participation would include engineering studies for analysis, specification, design of new applications and development of the application itself.
- Maintenance of RTO applications
Ensure that customer online process models remain online and functioning at greater than 95% of the time that operation is feasible.
Perform routine maintenance on online models making adjustments in tag names and model structure so that the model remains synchronized to the plant.
- Customer Consultancy
Maintain a trusted partner relationship with customers by focusing on returning maximum value to the customer from the installed system. This includes consultancy to the customer and proactive involvement in the user of the system.
Engagement with the other members of the optimisation team in order to improve the quality and timeliness of the implementation projects, and also the value of the delivered applications. We are interested in expanding the use of our online modeling and optimisation technology into new areas as well as applying it in new ways in existing applications.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
Essential Skills and experience:
- Degree in Control Engineering, Chemical Engineering or similar
- An understanding of the unit operations used in chemical plants and refineries
- Experience in simulating distillation towers, compressors and expanders, heat
integrated systems and refinery conversion units
- Ability to analyse and understand process simulation results
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in using computers and computer applications
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Willing to allocate around 30 percent of your time to travel
- Fluency in English
Desirable (but not essential) Skills:
- Knowledge of process control, especially optimization based on model predictive
- control is a plus
- Experience in communication through windows networks and between different
- systems (eg OPC protocol) is a plus
- Proficiency on Visual Basic for Excel, SQL queries and scripting languages such as TCL is a plus
- Additional languages including German, French and Russian would be a benefit
PhD and/or 3-4 years relevant experience are valued.
If you are feel you can fit, and you are interested to know more about the offer, just apply enclosing your detailed CV in English, or write us to [emailprotected] and [emailprotected]
We'll be glad to speak with you about this great opportunity ASAP!
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