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With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors, we understand that challenges are changing rapidly in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff with experience in over 150 countries to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.
Looking to take the next step in your career?
Hatch is currently seeking a highly motivated Advanced Process Control (APC) Lead to join our Project Delivery Group (PDG) in Canada to lead our continued growth in APC as a differentiated service, for both nationally and internationally located projects.
The Control, Automation & Electrical Group is a Hatch global practice providing engineering design expertise to Hatch's metals and minerals, infrastructure and energy business units. Our capability spans through the whole project lifecycle comprising; scoping, conceptual design, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, basic and detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, sustaining capital works and project management.
We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies. Join our team and become part of a community that strives for positive change–providing the best solutions for our client's toughest challenges!
Candidates are sought with experience in design, specification, plant testing, modelling, software configuration, commissioning, tuning, training and support of APC schemes.
As the successful candidate, you will:
- Drive business development activities to grow the APC practice and secure independent projects.
- Act as project manager and technical lead for APC projects and train/hire staff to grow the APC team
- Design and implement Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) for brownfield and greenfield projects.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements at existing plants, develop plans to achieve them and see it through implementation.
You bring to the role:
- A degree in chemical, metallurgical or control engineering demonstrated experience and PEng status (or the experience necessary to attain this). An advanced degree would be an advantage.
- Familiar with major APC platforms (AspenTech DMC3/Plus, Honeywell Profit Controller, Rockwell Pavilion8, ABB Predict and Control, Invensys Connoisseur, etc.).
- Experience in Model Predictive Controller (MPC) design/implementation, including commissioning and post-installation support
- Experience with Intelligent Control (e.g. Fuzzy Logic) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithm design/implementation for control, including commissioning and post-installation support
- Knowledge of, and experience in developing APC integration/interface code for latest generation base-layer control systems (e.g. plant DCS and PLC platforms such as Rockwell ControlLogix, Emerson DeltaV, Siemens S7, Modicon M580, etc.)
- Experience in business case development and for industrial APC applications (e.g., statistical forecasting and quantification of benefits)
- Experience in developing and implementing Advanced Regulatory Control (ARC) strategies for challenging processes in base-layer control systems, including PID control loop tuning
- Skilled in data analysis and utilization of statistical modelling tools (e.g., MatLab, Python mathematical libraries, etc.)
- Experience in the mining, metallurgical, energy and infrastructure sectors
- Ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external clients on a technical and interpersonal level
We are committed to fostering a workforce in each of our locations that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers employment applicants without regard to age, race, colour, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected status. If you have any special needs requirements, please let us know. We will do our utmost to accommodate, in accordance with applicable local legislation.
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About the company:
Our organization is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. We embrace your visions as our own and partner with you to develop better ideas that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. Our global network of 9,000 professionals work on the world’s toughest challenges. Our experience spans over 150 countries around the world in the metals, energy, infrastructure, digital, and investments market sectors.
We are employee-owned and independent—free to bring our best thinking to your business. Our exceptional, diverse teams combine vast engineering and business knowledge, working in partnership with our clients to develop market strategies, manage and optimize production, develop new game-changing technologies, and design and deliver complex capital projects.
We work closely with the communities in which we serve to ensure that our solutions optimize environmental protection, economic prosperity, social justice, and cultural vibrancy. We want their businesses, ecosystems, and communities to thrive, both now and into the future.
Our people are passionate about our corporate purpose and values. We believe in long-term relationships with our partners, and are committed to our clients’ lasting success.
We are “entrepreneurs with a technical soul.”
Quality:
At Hatch, we are committed to meeting and exceeding your expectations in all that we do. This commitment is enabled and supported by practices and processes embedded in all Hatch projects, which deliver real value to our clients.
Health & Safety:
The safety of our employees, visitors, and contractors is always top of mind. We work with our clients and partners, using structured systems and processes, to ensure safety, always.
Sustainability:
Sustainability requires the optimization of environmental, social, and economic outcomes. This ensures ecosystems are maintained, communities thrive, and society prospers, now and in the future. Sustainability is at the core of how we deliver value to our clients as a socially responsible company.
Indigenous Peoples Policy:
Our relationships with First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native Americans are based on the values of honesty, respect, and transparency. We understand that our ability to deliver successful projects on behalf of our clients is enhanced by our knowledge and understanding of the histories, cultures, protocols, values, aspirations, and governments of First Peoples across North America and Aboriginal communities around the world.