Advisory Consultant Engineer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

Coupling deep manufacturing and business process knowledge with an understanding of automation issues, the AspenTech professional services organization is distinctively qualified to help customers transform their business. With over 40 years of exclusive service to the process industries, we help companies find significant economic benefits through the strategic application of automation and IT solutions. Our worldwide services organization has centuries of cumulative process industry experience spanning: oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and consumer products.

As part of the Professional Services organization, you'll join us on our transformation journey to help our customers become part of the new era of autonomy as we move towards the Self Optimizing Plant and drive operational excellence in the most challenging market conditions.

This position will require expertise in Refinery, Olefins, Polymer or Spec Chem process industry, and it will focus on the deployment of solutions for industrial processes and utilities systems by using AspenTech software technology. This will include development of steady state and/or dynamic models, for offline and/or online real time solutions used for process monitoring, process optimization, process improvement and energy studies, and energy/emissions reduction. This position is for a qualified engineer to join our team in Pune, India.

Your Impact

• Leading effectively a team.
• Be the technical lead on medium and larger projects, dealing effectively with technical issues to ensure customer satisfaction and assigning tasks to the team members.
• Review process flow diagrams, process & instrumentation diagrams, mass balances, actual plant data, process descriptions, process manuals and lead process discussions, providing an effective process knowledge transfer to junior engineers.
• Oversee multiple projects and provide guidance and advice to less experienced team members to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Participate in client meetings, prepare project documentations (Functional Design Specifications, Detailed Design, Model Acceptance Test, As-built Documents, Reports, etc.), and assist with user training as necessary.
• Co-ordinate solution delivery in concert with AspenTech Project Management and the Client to ensure projects achieve stated milestones, delivery dates and financial goals.
• Implement projects using AspenTech's process simulation like Aspen Plus, Aspen Plus EO, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen OnLine and others.
• Responsible for AspenTech RTO and Digital Twin deployment project for open loop and/or close loop optimization and sustainability projects.
• Confidently communicate with and present results to clients.
• Work co-operatively with the AspenTech extended team in Sales, Support, Product Management and Research & Development to ensure successful project delivery and completion.
• Maintain and extend client satisfaction levels and develop opportunities for additional Services.
• Assist the sales organization and Services management team in preparing and delivering complex bids and proposals to major corporate clients.

What You'll Need

• A good quality degree in Chemical Engineering is necessary. Master's degree or PhD is an added advantage. Experience in a related service organization is an added advantage.
• Proven knowledge and strong understanding of major industrial processes from the thermodynamic, operational and design/modeling perspective, with minimum of 15 years of professional experience in one or more of the process industries that includes Oil and Gas, Refining, Chemicals, Petrochemical. A special focus is expected for reactor modeling techniques and experience. Knowledge/modelling of Polymer processes is an added advantage.
• Proven experience in process modeling and simulation, strong knowledge of refinery process, oil and gas and chemical process models is a must. Special focus and experience are expected in refinery process modeling and reactor modeling techniques.
• Verifiable ability to use and apply process simulation and design tools from AspenTech Engineering Suite software (Aspen Plus, Aspen Plus EO, ACM, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining, Aspen OnLine, EDR, etc.) or other Software vendors.
• Knowledge and hand-on skills on APC and Historian like IP.21 is an added advantage.
• Proven knowledge and experience on the design, implement and troubleshoot the RTO application.
• Ability to analyse plant data to identify trends, anomalies, and operational optimization opportunities.
• Previous Experience in AI/ML, Data Modeling is highly advantageous.
• Exposure in the use of LP techniques, defining and implementing data integration with external systems and databases will be an added advantage.
• Designing and implementing enterprise-wide visualization and collaboration solutions using AspenTech products, or 3rd party (PowerBI), is an added advantage.
• Advanced level use of Microsoft Office. Experience with Python, C#, C++, VB.Net or other programming languages is highly advantageous.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills in English is a must. Additional languages skills are an added advantage.
• Be able to work well in diverse teams composed of people with varied backgrounds.
• Must be comfortable in a technical lead role for project execution and consultative role.
• Fast learner and proactive problem solver with strong analytical skills, with a desire/motivation to learn cutting-edge new technologies.
• A team player with a positive attitude and ability to relate to customers and maintain good working relationships.
• Capable of multi-tasking efficiently and effectively, and willing to travel national/international typically up to 25%.
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