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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Kalypso, a Rockwell Automation Business, is a professional services firm dedicated to helping clients discover, create, make, and sell better products with digital. We believe that innovation across the value chain is the single most important factor for long-term growth and success.

Kalypsonians are passionate about their work and committed to helping clients become more innovative, competitive, and productive. The Kalypso team consists of diverse industry and technical experts with proven experience delivering results. Our people are recognized business, industry, and technical thought leaders with a passion for innovation.

As a provider of professional services, our people are the key to success. We are looking for the absolute best to join our world-class team. We want balanced individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the results our clients expect. At the same time, we are looking for Characters with Character who complement their expertise and intelligence with personality and integrity.

If you think you have what it takes, but don’t meet every single point on the job description below, please still apply. We’d rather have a chat and see if you could be a great fit than never meet at all. 

Advance Process Control Engineer

Business Area: 

For over 25 years our team has used our software products and engineering procedures to create advanced analytics and model predictive control applications for customers worldwide. Our applications integrate with existing manufacturing systems to drive improvements in product quality, production capacity and energy usage. Our business is not dependent upon any one industry and our staff receives broad exposure to customers and processes in varied manufacturing environments. Currently we have significant business in food, polymers, biofuels, refining and minerals processing with many exciting developments to expand.

The Role: 

As an Advanced Process Control Engineer you will be at the heart of custom application delivery teams that use Rockwell Automation’s advanced analytics and model predictive control products to create online applications to improve our customer’s manufacturing processes. You will assess the customer’s process, develop mathematical models that can be used to predict system behavior and configure online applications that use this knowledge to calculate process setpoints to dynamically control product quality, production capacity and energy usage. As part of our delivery team you will be responsible for the full technical implementation of the projects assigned to you from preliminary design through the completion of commissioning and customer acceptance. You will cover all aspects of the technical implementation including supporting hardware installation and system integration.

Keywords: Model Predictive Control, Advance Process Control

Who we are looking for?
Process Manufacturing Technical 5+ years, those who consider themselves to want to be part of a global team with big engineering challenges to solve. If you are looking to take your career to the next level, this is the opportunity for you.
 

WHAT IS YOUR CHALLENGE?
The role operates as a Global Engineering expert as part of the Advanced Process Control and Optimization team with the purpose to drive Manufacturing improvements in fostering quality improvement, increasing output and contributing to the bottom line across all processing industry customers in Latin America and worldwide, through

• Expertise deployment for Advanced Process Control and Process Control solutions & improvements

• Development and deployment of world class practices and functional expertise

• Identifying and implementing improvement opportunities

• Basic DCS, Process Control and Instrumentation knowledge

Requirements

• Degree: Chemical Engineering preferred, or another Engineering B.S.

• Being based in Brazil

• Manufacturing Experience (Technical engineering, Maintenance Management)

• At least 5 years of experience with a mix of experience in paper and pulp, polymers/plastics/petrochemicals, mining, cement, dairy, etc.

• Languages skill necessary: Portuguese and English fluency mandatory and Spanish highly desirable 

• Global expert on APC and Optimization applications and projects as demonstrated by significant accomplishments and contributions acquired over a period of minimum 5+ years as an APC Engineer.

Experience Areas Shall Include Linear And Non-linear Processes, Cost/benefit Analysis, Technical Design, Implementation, Commissioning, Start-up, Maintenance, Sustainability, Trouble Shooting, Failure Analyzing And Overhaul Dedicated To The Advanced Process Control And Optimization Area Of Expertise, With Proven Experience On Project Execution And Maintenance

• APC technology, systems, industry standards and practices, including step testing, model identification, inferential deployment, interfacing and commissioning, cost/benefit analysis,

• Advanced Solutions and Realtime Optimization technology, systems, industry standards and practices

• Process Modeling and Optimization. Dynamic and steady-state optimization,

• Advanced Regulatory control, Control loops performance, monitoring & fine tune

• Expert systems design and implementation

• Plant performance, historian and monitoring systems and processes

• Experience in APC-applications, both linear as non-linear, (polymers)

• Experience of people management and ability to use influence to achieve results.

• Flexible and able to re-prioritize tasks based on changing business need.

• Desire and ability to self-teach new software programs or system

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

At Rockwell Automation / Kalypso we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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