Process Monitoring and Optimization Engineer (Crude Units)

About the role

Chevron's Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru is hiring a Process Monitoring and Optimization Engineer for its Facilities Process Engineering organization. The role focuses on refinery process units such as crude distillation, separation, treating, product upgrading and utilities interfaces, providing monitoring, analysis and optimization support to keep units running safely, reliably and efficiently. It works as an extension of the site Process Engineering team, with site engineers retaining day-to-day ownership.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and standardize process monitoring methodologies, dashboards and analytics across refining facilities
• Perform engineering analysis for mass and energy balances, yield accounting, loss identification and performance trending
• Build and maintain monitoring and data analytics tools (e.g. PI, SEEQ, Power BI)
• Identify process improvement and digital enablement opportunities and proactively detect constraints and their impacts
• Support troubleshooting of process upsets, control issues and data anomalies, and assist incident investigations and root cause analyses
• Take part in HAZOPs, management of change and process safety reviews, and support audits and internal assurance activities
• Update the monthly medium-to-long-term monitoring report and track utility usage and environmental releases
• Monitor crude and vacuum distillation units, feedstock slate effects, preheat train and desalter performance, furnace and washbed fouling, and vacuum system health

Required profile

• 5-10 years of process engineering or operations support experience in refining or similar complex processing facilities, preferably on crude and vacuum units
• Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or a related discipline
• Preferred: experience with heat exchanger and furnace fouling monitoring, preheat train optimization and vacuum system troubleshooting

Required skills

• Proficiency with process monitoring and data analysis tools such as PI and SEEQ
• Working knowledge of simulation tools such as PRO/II, HYSYS and HTRI
• Strong fundamentals in mass balance, thermodynamics, distillation, heat transfer and fluid flow

The standard work week is Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm. Chevron does not sponsor employment visas or consider candidates on time-limited visa status. Applications are submitted through the online application form.