Corporate Process Control Leader

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Grace, a Standard Industries company, is a leading global supplier of catalysts, engineered materials and fine chemicals. We provide innovative products, technologies and services which our customers use to manufacture everyday products like renewable fuels, pharmaceuticals, toothpaste, cosmetics, food packaging, beer, edible oils and more. Our thousands of employees help shape a better future at our global headquarters in Columbia, MD and locations worldwide.

The Corporate Process Control Leader provides strategic, technical, and people leadership for process control across Grace’s global manufacturing network. The role leads the Corporate Process Control Team and the Global Process Control Network, establishes governance and standards, and enables sites and capital projects to select, implement, and sustain safe, reliable, fit-for-purpose automation solutions. The leader balances global leverage with site-specific needs and total lifecycle economics, while ensuring that safety and regulatory requirements remain non-negotiable.

• Lead, develop, and set priorities for the Corporate Process Control Team. Establish clear accountabilities, coach technical staff, strengthen succession plans, and allocate limited specialist resources to the highest-value global needs.
• Lead the Global Process Control Network as the primary forum for connecting site experts, sharing lessons learned, reusing proven designs, coordinating training, and pooling scarce process-control resources across geographic and organizational boundaries.
• Own and communicate the global process-control vision: safety first, lowest long-term cost, fit-for-purpose architecture, and shared global capability.
• Guide sites and projects through a consistent technology-selection process. Understand site objectives, hazards, constraints, skills, and lifecycle stage; evaluate safety, reliability, maintainability, cybersecurity, integration, and total cost; document the selected architecture and long-term support model.
• Establish, maintain, and govern global process automation standards, engineering practices, reusable libraries, templates, and lifecycle requirements. Standardize where common solutions create value while allowing site-specific solutions where they provide better lifecycle value.
• Provide technical governance and assurance for capital projects with significant automation scope, including distributed control systems, safety instrumented systems, burner
  management systems, PLCs, package controls, operator interfaces, networks, and data historians.
• Ensure obsolete and unsupported control systems are identified, risk-ranked, and supported by documented lifecycle roadmaps addressing migration strategy, cybersecurity, backups, spares, training, vendor support, and sustainment cost.
• Serve as the senior process-control technical authority for major project reviews, architecture decisions, vendor evaluations, functional specifications, design reviews, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and startup readiness.
• Advance process safety and operational discipline through appropriate application of alarm management, high-performance graphics, interlock and permissive design, sequence control, management of change, and recognized engineering practices.
• Partner with site operations, maintenance, engineering, process safety, IT/OT cybersecurity, procurement, and project management to deliver solutions that are supportable by the site and aligned with business objectives.
• Sponsor productivity and reliability initiatives that use process automation to reduce raw-material and energy consumption, improve quality and production rates, reduce unplanned downtime,…