Senior RTO Consultant

AVEVA; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, seeks a Senior Consultant to implement and optimize Real-Time Optimization solutions for ethylene/steam cracker plants. You will model complex processes, configure online execution, and drive data-driven improvements across operations.

You will also integrate APO with APC/DCS systems, mentor engineers, and deliver robust closed-loop optimization strategies to improve plant performance and energy efficiency.

Qualifications

• Chemical Engineering or equivalent process engineering degree.
• Strong experience in ethylene/steam cracker process engineering, simulation or optimization.
• Hands-on experience with AVEVA Process Optimization (APO/ROMeo) or equivalent RTO technology.

Responsibilities

• Implement, commission, and maintain APO Real-Time Optimization (RTO) for ethylene/steam cracker plants.
• Develop and validate rigorous process models for cracker complexes.
• Configure and troubleshoot online model execution and data interfaces.
• Develop economic optimization cases considering feed costs, utilities, and plant constraints.
• Integrate APO with APC/DCS systems for closed-loop targets and setpoints.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to RTO engineers.

Skills

APO/ROMeo

Process optimization

Data reconciliation

Nonlinear optimization

APC/RTO integration

Education

Chemical Engineering degree

Tools

AVEVA APO/ROMeo

AVEVA PI System

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Consultant

Location: Madrid

Employment Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, commission, and maintain AVEVA Process Optimization (APO) Real-Time Optimization (RTO) Closed Loop applications for ethylene/steam cracker plants.
• Develop, validate, and maintain rigorous 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 strong ethylene cracker process knowledge to represent feedstock effects, furnace severity, coil outlet temperature, steam-to-hydrocarbon ratio, yields, energy consumption, equipment constraints, and operating economics.
• Configure and troubleshoot online model execution, including plant data acquisition, data validation/reconciliation, model parameter estimation, model-to-plant matching, optimization, and automated execution sequences.
• Develop and maintain economic optimization cases considering feed costs, product values, utilities, energy efficiency, furnace constraints, compressor limitations, equipment capacities, product specifications, and plant operating constraints.
• Implement and commission Closed 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 with Operations, Process Engineering, APC, Planning and Optimization teams to identify optimization opportunities and translate them into sustainable closed-loop strategies.
• Analyze RTO solutions and identify the active constraints, economic drivers and operational trade-offs responsible for recommended operating changes.
• Perform RTO 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, including model mismatch, instrumentation problems, data quality, APC limitations, equipment changes, feedstock changes and changing operating modes.
• Support site commissioning, performance testing, operator/engineer training and handover of RTO Closed Loop applications.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other RTO engineers, particularly in ethylene cracker modelling, optimization and Closed Loop implementation.

Preferred Technical Background

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

Services at AVEVA

Our dynamic global team of 700+ engineers, developers, consultants, solution architects and project managers are at the forefront of delivering AVEVA cutting-edge solutions to customers. The work is complex and technical, but immensely rewarding: we empower customers to harness the full transformative potential of AVEVA's solutions. If you're analytical, pragmatic, and driven to make a tangible impact on the sustainability of the industrial sector, our team is the perfect place for you.

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