Need: Business Process Control Consultant : Duluth, MN

 

Business Process Control Consultant

 

Location:        Duluth, MN

Duration:       6 Months

 

Academic

·         Control and/or Automation Engineer, Mining Engineer, Chemical Engineer or Electrical Engineer

·         Post Graduation, master or doctor degree in process control, chemical engineering or automation and control

 

Technical Skills

 

Required

•        Strong industrial process skills (Mining & Beneficiation Plants, preferably Iron Ore)

•        Understanding of PLC/DCS programming

•        Knowledge of automation basics (usual logics, interlocking, SCADA, PIMS)

•        Knowledge of industrial instrumentation

•        Experience in Process Control

o   Regulatory control (PID, Feedback Control)

o   Process variable characteristics and common mining control strategies

o   Control Loop tuning

o   Advanced Control strategies

o   Control Loop Performance Assessment (CLPA) methodologies and KPIs

•        Data Analysis

•        Statistics and Statistical Process Control

•        Root Cause Analysis

•        Continuous process improvement

 

Desirable:

•         Advanced Control

o  Fuzzy Logic

o  Multivariable Controls

o  Artificial Neural Networks

•        Process Modeling and Simulation

•        Linear Dynamic Estimators and Soft Sensor

•        Multivariate Statistical Process Control

 

Optional:

 

•         Manufacturing Execution Systems

 

•        Personal

•        Work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams

•        Identify potential causes of the problem by analyzing its component parts.

•        Research and apply emerging and consolidated optimization technologies

•        Able to identify major application areas for optimization technology and to calculate the potential financial benefits of that.

•        Strong analytical skill

 

Key responsibilities of this role may include:

 

•       Assess control loops performance and propose changes in the control strategies. Working knowledge of well-known techniques/indexes (Harris, Spectral Analysis, Autocorrelation, etc.)

•       Knowledge and understanding of the software packages that collect process data and calculate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

•       Tune control loops and identify instrumentation issues.

•       Apply methodology to configure control loops, logics and interlocks in DCS

•       Understand Alarm Management methodologies and techniques

•       Developing process and functional design activities

•       Creating functional requirements as an input to application design

•       Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes

•       Planning and executing data conversion activities

•       Knowledge and understanding of DCS systems

•       Knowledge and understanding of PLCs

•       Understand the communication protocols between different DCS systems and other subsystems (Modbus, Profibus, Ethernet, etc.)