Subject Matter Expert Process Engineering
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AVEVA seeks a Subject Matter Expert in Process Engineering to lead deployment and sustainment of predictive analytics and process optimization solutions for oil & gas customers in the Middle East.
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Responsibilities
- Support end to end deployment and operationalization of AVEVA predictive analytics and process optimization solutions across customer facilities in the Middle East region
- Provide process engineering subject matter expertise during asset onboarding, solution configuration, and model development phases
- Review and manage daily process optimization advisories and predictive alerts for deployed process systems and assets
- Assess feasibility of model recommended set point changes against current operational constraints, production targets, and safety requirements
- Investigate process anomalies and inefficiencies identified by deployed AVEVA solutions and perform root cause analysis
- Work closely with customer operations teams and control room personnel to safely implement operational advisories and optimization recommendations
- Track and report operational and value realization KPIs including throughput improvement, energy consumption reduction, and product quality improvements
- Support continuous improvement, model refinement, and enhancement of predictive and optimization effectiveness
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering discipline
- Minimum 10 years of process engineering experience within oil & gas upstream, gas processing, refining, petrochemical, or industrial process environments
- Direct experience with separation systems, gas compression systems, NGL processing units, process optimization and operational troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of heat and mass balance principles, process performance analysis, production optimization, process constraints and operating envelopes
- Familiarity with process simulation tools such as Aspen HYSYS, Pro/II, or equivalent
- Experience translating optimization model outputs into operational guidance for plant operations and control room teams
- Familiarity with DCS, APC, or real time optimization environments preferred
- Experience interpreting operational data from SCADA, PI Historian / OSIsoft, or equivalent industrial systems
- Familiarity with predictive analytics platforms, industrial AI systems, or digital optimization solutions preferred
- Middle East or GCC operating environment experience preferred
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Programme Context
- AVEVA delivers Predictive Analytics, Asset Performance Management, and Process Optimisation solutions across Oil & Gas, Energy, and Industrial operators throughout the Middle East region.
- This SME role exists to ensure predictive model outputs are technically interpreted, validated, operationalized, and sustained — converting AI generated insights into measurable operational, reliability, and financial benefits.
Key Responsibilities Solution Deployment & Model Enablement
- Support end to end deployment and operationalization of AVEVA predictive analytics and process optimization solutions.
- Provide process engineering subject matter expertise during asset onboarding, solution configuration, and model development.
- Ensure predictive and optimization models accurately reflect process operating conditions, heat and mass balance relationships, and equipment performance.
- Support asset criticality assessments, use case definition, and identification of high value optimization opportunities.
- Participate in model validation, alert tuning, calibration, and user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.
- Correlate predictive and optimization model outputs with operational and process data.
- Support model recalibration activities when process conditions change.
Key Responsibilities Predictive Monitoring, Sustainment & Value Realization
- Review and manage daily process optimization advisories and predictive alerts.
- Assess feasibility of model recommended set point changes against current operational constraints.
- Validate optimization recommendations for separators, compressors, heat exchangers, gas processing units, utility systems, and other critical equipment.
- Investigate process anomalies and inefficiencies and perform root cause analysis.
- Work with customer operations teams to safely implement operational advisories.
- Monitor implementation outcomes and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
- Track and report operational and value realization KPIs.
- Conduct periodic visits to customer plants and operational facilities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or related engineering discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of process engineering experience within oil & gas upstream, gas processing, refining, petrochemical, or industrial process environments.
- Direct experience with separation systems, gas compression systems, NGL processing units, process optimization and operational troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of heat and mass balance principles, process performance analysis, production optimization, process constraints and operating envelopes.
- Familiarity with process simulation tools such as Aspen HYSYS, Pro/II, or equivalent.
- Experience translating optimization model outputs into operational guidance for plant operations and control room teams.
- Familiarity with DCS, APC, or real time optimization environments preferred.
- Experience interpreting operational data from SCADA, PI Historian / OSIsoft, or equivalent industrial systems.
- Familiarity with predictive analytics platforms, industrial AI systems, or digital optimization solutions preferred.
- Middle East or GCC operating environment experience preferred.
Key Skills & Competencies
- Process optimization and troubleshooting
- Heat and mass balance analysis
- Production and energy efficiency optimization
- Process simulation and modelling
- Operational advisory validation
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- Process data interpretation and analytics validation
- Technical governance and stakeholder engagement
- Cross functional collaboration and advisory capability
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