Process Controls Manager

About Orbia Polymer Solutions Vestolit:

You are purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Thats the spirit of the community you will find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23000 every single day.

From creating solutions to deliver clean water secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities transportation and healthcare we never settle for good enough when theres an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life it changes lives. This is what we live for.

MAIN PURPOSE

Providing automation instrumentation and controls engineering capabilities and experience to the Manufacturing facilities of PS-Vestolit including generating qualification protocols and maintaining the validated state of systems and processes providing support with respect to the automation and instrumentation and control systems for process utility and production systems. Supporting automation impacting projects with large and/or complex scope. Driving strategic initiatives to optimize manufacturing processes across PS-Vestolit sites driving efficiency reducing cycle time and improving reliability through best-practice identification process control deployment of new technologies including digital engineering tools Industry 4.0/IIoT AI cloud solutions and others.

DIMENSIONS OF JOB

The role of Process Control Manager is to establish PS-Vestolits organizational competency related to technology enablement with the objective of achieving tangible operations improvements which translates into business benefits: e.g. OEE improvement cycle time reduction enabling bottom-up real time information flow from plants. This role will work closely with the Global Operations VP PS-Vestolit Plant Managers and Control Systems Engineers at the sites to create an overall technology strategy that aligns with business objectives and priorities to improve business value.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identify initiatives to implement innovative technology which provide digital capabilities and tools to create a data driven decision making culture.

• Build and support operation of digital dashboards based on real-time plant/manufacturing data including an Alarm Management System.

• Support the PS-Vestolit automation strategy for the facilities ensuring alignment with global standards and local manufacturing needs.

• Help establish the baseline for data quality as the foundation upon which we can build digital innovation solutions.

• Partner with IT/OT and Operations stakeholders to ensure data integrity and compliance across all automated platforms.

EDUCATION

Minimum: Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science IT or related engineering or scientific discipline. Desirable: Masters studies in Process Control or equivalent.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Professional with knowledge and skills in requirements gathering design configuration integration and implementation of automation solutions for the manufacturing industry including PLC / DCS systems field bus technology HMI packages and panels OPC SCADA systems and historians in both continuous and batch automation applications and knowledge of field instrumentation to drive operational efficiencies through process optimization analytics like predictive quality predictive throughput predictive energy efficiency and autonomous automation technology freeing people (operators engineers maintenance etc.) to focus on solving problems.

• Knowledge of all components of holistic digital architecture and Process Control systems.

• Understanding and working knowledge of Big Data/Analytics AI/ML and emerging technology trends.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• A minimum of 5 years experience involved in the design implementation and/or support of control systems preferably in the chemical industry with emphasis in process control advanced proficiency in DCS PLC HMI SCADA architecture Industry 4.0/IIoT manufacturing dashboards.

• Extensive leadership experience in chemical plants automation.
  
  We welcome purpose-driven dreamers doers and builders recognising that it takes difference to make a difference. If youre ready to bring your skills talents and perspective to moving your career the company people and the planet forward wed like to hear from you.

We believe that every voice matters; every community deserves respect; and every challenge is an opportunity and united by empathy we are stronger for our different perspectives. We are dedicated to building a more diverse inclusive and equitable workplace that supports the needs of all our employees regardless of their role location identity and background.

The compensation for this position is $98000 - $181000. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills experience geographical location and internal equity.

The compensation package may also include short and long-term incentive compensation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes healthcare coverage a 401(k)-retirement savings plan paid company holidays paid vacation time paid sick time parental leave short- and long-term disability leave and an employee assistance program. At Orbia we are committed to taking care of our employees and believe in providing comprehensive support so you can thrive at work and home.

Orbia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal state or local law.