Automation & Process Control Leader
Listed on 2026-08-30
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Engineering
Automation & Mechatronics Engineer, Systems Engineer
About Orbia Polymer Solutions Vestolit:
You are purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. That’s the spirit of the community you will find at Orbia: where the purpose to advance life around the world drives our global team of over 23,000 every single day.
From creating solutions to deliver clean water, secure food supplies and reliable information to steering material advances that power the future of green and smart cities, transportation, and healthcare, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better. Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for.
MAIN PURPOSE
Providing automation, instrumentation and controls engineering capabilities and experience to the Manufacturing facilities of PS-Vestolit, including generating qualification protocols and maintaining the validated state of systems and processes, providing support with respect to the automation and instrumentation and control systems for process, utility and production systems. Supporting automation impacting projects with large and/or complex scope. Driving strategic initiatives to optimize manufacturing processes across PS-Vestolit sites, driving efficiency, reducing cycle time, and improving reliability through best-practice identification, process control, deployment of new technologies including digital engineering tools, Industry 4.0/IIoT, AI, cloud solutions and others.
DIMENSIONS OF JOB
The role of Process Control Manager is to establish PS-Vestolit’s organizational competency related to technology enablement with the objective of achieving tangible operations improvements, which translates into business benefits: e.g., OEE improvement, cycle time reduction, enabling bottom-up real time information flow from plants. This role will work closely with the Global Operations VP, PS-Vestolit Plant Managers and Control Systems Engineers at the sites, to create an overall technology strategy that aligns with business objectives and priorities to improve business value.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
Identify initiatives to implement innovative technology which provide digital capabilities and tools to create a data driven decision making culture.
Build and support operation of digital dashboards based on real-time plant/manufacturing data, including an Alarm Management System.
Support the PS-Vestolit automation strategy for the facilities, ensuring alignment with global standards and local manufacturing needs.
Help establish the baseline for data quality as the foundation upon which we can build digital innovation solutions.
Partner with IT/OT and Operations stakeholders to ensure data integrity and compliance across all automated platforms.
EDUCATION
Minimum:Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related engineering or scientific discipline.Desirable:Master´s studies in Process Control or equivalent.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED
Professional with knowledge and skills in requirements gathering, design, configuration, integration, and implementation of automation solutions for the manufacturing industry including PLC / DCS systems, field bus technology, HMI packages and panels, OPC, SCADA systems and historians in both continuous and batch automation applications, and knowledge of field instrumentation, to drive operational efficiencies through process optimization analytics like predictive quality, predictive throughput, predictive energy efficiency, and autonomous automation technology, freeing people (operators, engineers, maintenance, etc.)
to focus on solving problems.Knowledge of all components of holistic digital architecture and Process Control systems.
Understanding and working knowledge of Big Data/Analytics, AI/ML, and emerging technology trends.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
A minimum of 5 years’ experience involved in the design, implementation, and/or support of control systems, preferably in the chemical industry, with emphasis in process control, advanced proficiency in DCS, PLC, HMI, SCADA architecture, Industry 4.0/IIoT, manufacturing dashboards.
Extensive leadership experience in chemical plants automation.
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