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
As an AspenTech Advisory Consultant Engineer you will provide consulting to clients implementing our software with a specific focus on the Industrial Data Fabric and MES products: AspenTech Inmation and InfoPlus.21 families. The successful individual will be responsible for undertaking consulting services for AspenTech clients in the oil & gas, chemical, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, and metals & mining industries, with opportunities to engage in projects around the world.

You will be a key driving force in delivering Industrial Data Management and MES technology to new and existing customers. You will become an expert in the configuration and use of our platform, onboarding new customers and ensuring that all their requirements are met. As well as working with internal product management, marketing, and sales teams, you will also regularly communicate with customers via email, web calls, and face-to-face meetings.

Your Impact

• Discipline and integrity to always do the right thing for our most important stakeholder, the customer.
• Thought leadership and a willingness to innovate and improve as part of a diverse team of talented people from around the world.
• Passion for solving complex, real-world problems.
• Flexibility and motivation to learn new skills to deliver world class solutions to our customers.
• Ability to work at the front line with customers and colleagues.
• Ability to understand and articulate integrated business processes from both top-down and bottom-up perspectives.
• Pragmatic approach to getting things done.
• Serve as subject matter expert in leading and implementing AspenTech MES projects. This includes but not limited to:
• Gathering customer requirements and translating those into high-level solution designs for aspenONE MES products. (Aspen InfoPlus.21, AspenTech Inmation, Aspen Production Record Manager, Aspen APEM, aspenONE Process Explorer, etc.)
• Defining and implementing data integration with external systems and people.
• Utilizing our technology to enable broader solutions using the entire portfolio of AspenTech software.
• Solution Architect having credibility, gravitas and proven ability to gather, document and implement Client requirements and address the business process issues that AspenTech solutions address.
• Assist the sales organization and Services management team in preparing and delivering complex bids and proposals to major corporate clients.
• Deliver technical and quality documents such as Functional Specifications, Detailed Design Documents, IQ, OQ, and Factory, Site, and User Acceptance Test Documents.
• Be confident, capable, and have the ability to play a leading role on projects.
• Demonstrate collaboration with the AspenTech Project Management team, involving technical and non-technical aspects of the project.
• Formulating business processes to support the systems.
• Working with clients to implement the systems.
• Working closely with Project Managers to manage project budgets/schedules.
• Commissioning the completed systems which may require on site monitoring and analysis.
• Participation in commercial proposal development and testing of software upgrades.
• Designing and implementing enterprise-wide visualization and collaboration solutions using AspenTech products, or 3rd party (e.g. PowerBI). This also includes integration work with other AspenTech solutions to support these projects.
• Conducting demonstrations, training, requirements analysis and system design workshops.
• Prepare and adjust training material for MES products and related integration.
• Support team members and peers, as a trusted advisor.

What You'll Need

• 15+ years of experience implementing Manufacturing Execution system software in one or more of the process industries listed above.
• Experience with programming languages such as Lua, .NET, VB, C++, SQL etc. Strong technical programming background is a plus.
• Experience with implementation of real-time databases or historians, particularly Aspen InfoPlus.21.
• Experience with Industrial Data Management concepts such as Data Lakes, Master Data Management, Unified Namespace etc.
• Ability to travel (typical 15-25% travel on a calendar basis).
• Multi project experience serving as a technical lead in systems implementations.
• Understanding of information security principles and challenges faced when integrating cross-functional processes across large organizations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities.
• Fluency in English. Other language skills are a plus.
• An inquisitive nature and a need to understand why and how things are done and not be afraid to ask questions.
• Appreciate complexity and relish troubleshooting.