Digital APC Engineer: Optimize Process Performance

ABB Inc.; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k Savings Plan

11 paid holidays

Annual bonus

Job summary

ABB is seeking an experienced engineer to lead design, configuration, testing, and commissioning of Advanced Process Control (APC) applications across energy, process industries, and oil & gas sectors. You will develop process models, control strategies and optimization solutions to boost throughput, quality, energy efficiency, and asset utilization.

You will act as a technical SME for APC solutions, support sales pursuits, and collaborate with process engineers, automation teams, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering; Master’s/PhD preferred.
• 10+ years in industrial automation, energy, power & water, and oil & gas industries.
• Expertise in process control to develop and implement advanced control strategies.
• Background with distributed control systems, process instrumentation, and supervisory control applications is a plus.
• Leadership skills to guide technical teams and manage discussions.
• Travel up to 40% to support projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, configuration, testing, and commissioning of APC applications; ensure project delivery and meeting customer performance objectives.
• Develop and maintain dynamic process models, control strategies, and optimization solutions to improve throughput, quality, energy efficiency, and asset utilization.
• Serve as a SME for APC solutions; support sales pursuits, proposals, workshops, scope development, and customer presentations.
• Collaborate with process engineers, operations, automation teams, and stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities and define APC project requirements.
• Provide lifecycle support for deployed APC applications: performance monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, model maintenance, health checks, and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Analyze process and operational data to quantify benefits and develop actionable recommendations delivering measurable business value.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote APC engineering best practices, standards, and documentation quality.
• Support development of APC standards, reusable templates, and knowledge to improve consistency and scalability of APC projects.
• Contribute to software engineering tasks across areas like software development, quality engineering, testing, DevOps, cybersecurity, release and maintenance; with limited supervision.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Management, and development teams for future planning and product deliverables.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Problem solving

Process control

APC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

ABB is seeking an experienced engineer to lead design, configuration, testing, and commissioning of Advanced Process Control (APC) applications across energy, process industries, and oil & gas sectors. You will develop process models, control strategies and optimization solutions to boost throughput, quality, energy efficiency, and asset utilization.

You will act as a technical SME for APC solutions, support sales pursuits, and collaborate with process engineers, automation teams, and