, India
Job Family Group:
Discipline Engineering
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
July 13, 2026
Business Unit:
Projects and Technology
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role

As an Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and sustaining APC applications that enhance process stability, reliability, energy efficiency, and profitability across Shell's refining and petrochemical assets. Working within the Process Automation, Control and Optimization (PACO) team at the Shell Chennai Centre, India, you will collaborate with operations, process engineering, and control systems teams to identify optimization opportunities and deliver advanced control solutions.

The ideal candidate will possess robust expertise in process control systems, multivariable predictive control, and process optimization methodologies, with the ability to independently execute APC projects from design through commissioning and performance monitoring.

What you’ll be doing




- Develop and implement Advanced Process Control strategies to optimize plant performance and reduce costs.
- Work with plant personnel to identify opportunities for process improvements.
- Estimate benefit from APC implementation by performing Scoping Study.
- Perform Site Survey and Pretest to identify key areas and constraints for APC implementation and understand plant dynamics and time to steady state.
- Should be able to tune Base Layer Controls and identify issues and suggest strategies for improvement.
- Develop Functional Design defining strategies for Control and Optimization.
- Perform Step Test and Model Identification.
- Develop Inferential Model to estimate properties of key process parameters.
- Perform APC Pre Commissioning activities to enable handshake between APC and DCS systems, implement Watchdog logics, develop APC graphics and deploy APC Web Interface on Operator Panel Stations.
- Test shed logics for various

📌 Tech Specialist-Advanced Process Control (Chennai)
🏢 Shell
📍 Chennai