Process Monitoring and Optimization Engineer (Crude Units)

Overview

Process Monitoring and Optimization Engineer in the Facilities Process Engineering organization within Chevron ENGINE, supporting refinery process units including crude distillation, separation, treating, product upgrading, and utilities interfaces.

What you'll do

• Develop, maintain, and standardize process monitoring methodologies, dashboards, and analytics across refining facilities.
• Perform engineering analysis to support mass and energy balances, yield accounting, loss identification, and process performance trending.
• Develop and maintain process monitoring and data analytics tools (e.g., PI, SEEQ, Power BI or similar).
• Identify and develop process improvement and digital enablement opportunities to enhance throughput, yield, energy efficiency, and operability.
• Monitor process trends and operating conditions to support continuous improvement, early issue detection, and abnormal situation prevention.
• Collaborate with Operations and Process Engineering teams to address reliability risks, operability challenges, and performance gaps.
• Provide technical support for troubleshooting process upsets, performance deviations, control issues, and data anomalies.
• Proactively monitor to identify constraints early, quantify their impact, develop interim mitigations, and support turnaround scope justification.
• Support integrity operating window (IOW) monitoring related to critical process parameters, equipment limits, and safe operating envelopes.
• Support audits, technical reviews, and internal assurance activities related to process performance, monitoring practices, and data integrity.
• Provide analytical and technical input for incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action development.
• Participate in HAZOPs, management of change (MOC), and process safety reviews with a focus on operability, safeguards, and loss prevention.
• Update, validate, and issue the monthly medium- to long-term monitoring report.
• Monitor and track utility usage, i.e., steam, natural gas, fuel gas, nitrogen, and power.
• Provide environmental release calculations.
• Provide medium- to long-term monitoring of crude and vacuum distillation units with emphasis on process stability, yields, cutpoint analysis, and constraint management.
• Monitor and analyze the impact of crude slate and feedstock variability on separation efficiency, product quality, fouling, and corrosion.
• Monitor crude pre-heat train and desalter performance and recommend exchanger cleaning timing.
• Monitor furnace fouling, washbed, and vacuum system health, and project when fouling may impact plant rates; provide recommendations to prevent future events.
• Develop and maintain heat exchanger monitoring dashboards.

What you'll need

• 5–10 years of process engineering or operations support experience within refining or other similar complex processing facilities, preferably on crude and vacuum units.
• Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or related engineering discipline from an accredited university.
• Proficiency with process monitoring and data analysis tools (e.g., PI, SEEQ).
• Working knowledge of simulation tools (e.g., PRO/II, HYSYS, HTRI).

Nice to have

• Experience with heat exchanger and furnace fouling monitoring, preheat train optimization, and vacuum system troubleshooting.
• Strong process engineering fundamentals, including mass balance, thermodynamics, distillation, heat transfer, and fluid flow.
• Familiarity with HAZOP, root cause analysis, and process safety management practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively with operations, technical teams, and leadership across multiple refining sites.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Standard work week Monday to Friday; working hours 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm.
• Chevron is unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.