Advanced Process Control Applications Engineer
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Job Description
**About us**
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net\-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower\-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about **our What and our Why** and how we canwork **together**.
**About Houston**
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ExxonMobil's state\-of\-the\-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.
By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.
The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I\-45\), at the intersection of I\-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.
The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.
Learn more about what we do in Houston **here****.**
**What role you will play in our team**
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You will be part of our Process Control Applications team based at our ExxonMobil Houston Campus, where you will be working and collaborating on a global scale. As a member of a broader Process Control Applications Engineering job family, you will be sustaining our suite of process control applications across the globe, improving the unit performance or energy use or be actively involved in scoping, developing and deploying new control applications across our business lines in Product Solutions or Upstream.
**What you will do**
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* Maximize profitability by deploying new applications or remotely sustaining and improving the performance of existing Model Predictive Control (MPC) or Real Time Optimization (RTO) applications
* Assess Advanced Process Control (APC) improvement opportunities for the fleet
* Develop and implement new MPC or RTO applications at ExxonMobil facilities globally
* Collaborate with site personnel to identify, design, and implement improvements to existing MPC or RTO applications to maximize unit performance
* Maintain deep expertise in APC applications and be acknowledged as a leading expert by providing expert technical support to ExxonMobil assets
* Provide technical leadership to enable the advanced process control application related work activities on a global scale
* Serve as a technical mentor to other team members to enhance their functional skill proficiencies and drive competency development strategy in MPC and/or RTO
* Develop and leverage cutting edge tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of advanced process control applications and promote innovative solutions that maximize value and support global business priorities
* Stay abreast with industry standards and best practices to incorporate into our APC applications and facilitate knowledge exchange within the company
**About you**
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**Skills and Qualifications**
* Minimum of BS Chemical Engineering or equivalent degree (post\-graduate degrees in process control or optimization are beneficial, but not required)
* Experience working in or around manufacturing/operating plant environment
* Knowledge of refining or chemical processes with 10 \+ years working experience in/with manufacturing environment (petrochemical experience preferred, but not required)
* Willing to undertake occasional travel (up to 25\-30% of the time in a calendar year) as required for the role
* Minimum 5 years of hands\-on work experience in implementing or supporting MPC or RTO
* Strong technical knowledge and proven expertise with well\-known commercial software for MPC (AspenTech DMC, Honeywell Profit Controller, Yokogawa PACE) and/or RTO (Aveva ROMeo/APO, Aspen GDOT, or comparable flowsh
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net\-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower\-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about **our What and our Why** and how we canwork **together**.
**About Houston**
-----------------
ExxonMobil's state\-of\-the\-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.
By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.
The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I\-45\), at the intersection of I\-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.
The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.
Learn more about what we do in Houston **here****.**
**What role you will play in our team**
---------------------------------------
You will be part of our Process Control Applications team based at our ExxonMobil Houston Campus, where you will be working and collaborating on a global scale. As a member of a broader Process Control Applications Engineering job family, you will be sustaining our suite of process control applications across the globe, improving the unit performance or energy use or be actively involved in scoping, developing and deploying new control applications across our business lines in Product Solutions or Upstream.
**What you will do**
--------------------
* Maximize profitability by deploying new applications or remotely sustaining and improving the performance of existing Model Predictive Control (MPC) or Real Time Optimization (RTO) applications
* Assess Advanced Process Control (APC) improvement opportunities for the fleet
* Develop and implement new MPC or RTO applications at ExxonMobil facilities globally
* Collaborate with site personnel to identify, design, and implement improvements to existing MPC or RTO applications to maximize unit performance
* Maintain deep expertise in APC applications and be acknowledged as a leading expert by providing expert technical support to ExxonMobil assets
* Provide technical leadership to enable the advanced process control application related work activities on a global scale
* Serve as a technical mentor to other team members to enhance their functional skill proficiencies and drive competency development strategy in MPC and/or RTO
* Develop and leverage cutting edge tools and techniques to improve the effectiveness of advanced process control applications and promote innovative solutions that maximize value and support global business priorities
* Stay abreast with industry standards and best practices to incorporate into our APC applications and facilitate knowledge exchange within the company
**About you**
-------------
**Skills and Qualifications**
* Minimum of BS Chemical Engineering or equivalent degree (post\-graduate degrees in process control or optimization are beneficial, but not required)
* Experience working in or around manufacturing/operating plant environment
* Knowledge of refining or chemical processes with 10 \+ years working experience in/with manufacturing environment (petrochemical experience preferred, but not required)
* Willing to undertake occasional travel (up to 25\-30% of the time in a calendar year) as required for the role
* Minimum 5 years of hands\-on work experience in implementing or supporting MPC or RTO
* Strong technical knowledge and proven expertise with well\-known commercial software for MPC (AspenTech DMC, Honeywell Profit Controller, Yokogawa PACE) and/or RTO (Aveva ROMeo/APO, Aspen GDOT, or comparable flowsh
Posted: 2026-03-21