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Application Specialist - APC
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Are you an experienced Process Control or Automation Engineer who enjoys solving complex operational challenges and helping customers improve plant performance through advanced process control and optimization?
The Application Specialist - APC
The Application Specialist - APC is a customer-facing field expert responsible for supporting Valmet’s customers with a primary focus on advanced controls, tuning, process performance, automation, troubleshooting, start-up support, and continuous optimization. The role combines on-site and remote expert services across waste to energy power plants and wastewater treatment plants with a strong emphasis on process stability, operational reliability, control performance, and actionable customer recommendations.
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver on-demand and agreements, on-site and remote expert support for Advanced Process Control. This includes process optimization, control performance, troubleshooting, audits, studies, startup support, commissioning support, and shutdown-related activities.
- Support customers in process stabilization, process tuning, process diagnostics, and operational optimization using Valmet’s automation, analysers, and process know-how.
- Analyse process issues and identify root causes related to process variability, control performance, valve behavior, instrumentation signals, and operating practices.
- Provide expert recommendations for control strategy improvements, process tuning, automation adjustments, and operational best practices to improve availability, productivity, stability, and quality.
- Support customer teams during startup, commissioning, shutdowns, process upsets, and performance follow-up, and act as a technical authority in customer-facing discussions.
- Prepare professional service reports that clearly document observations, process issues, findings, recommendations, customer actions.
- Support technical-commercial follow-up by identifying service leads, automation upgrade opportunities, process optimization cases, maintenance actions, and remote support opportunities from site work.
- Support scope definition, quotation inputs, service planning, and cross-functional coordination together with sales, service coordination, application engineering, and global experts.
- Train and guide customer personnel on process understanding, control philosophy, system usage, troubleshooting logic, and performance improvement actions.
- Work according to Valmet’s HSEQ and field-service delivery processes and ensure disciplined use of core systems, documentation, and service workflows.
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Primary Technical Scope for This Role
- Waste to Energy process
- Wastewater treatment plants process
- Process control performance evaluation
- Automation / process audits
- Startup and commissioning support
- Shutdown support with process and controls focus
- Process tuning and recommendations
- Remote and on-site expert support
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What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Control Engineering, or equivalent
- Strong experience in automation including process operations or process support, especially waste to energy
- Strong experience in controls / automation / process tuning / DCS-supported troubleshooting
- Experience in startup, commissioning, shutdown execution, or process performance support
- Ability to translate technical findings into practical customer recommendations
- Willingness to travel frequently (50%) and support customers on site, including shutdowns and extended working hours where needed
You May Also Have:
- Experience with Valmet or equivalent distributed control systems, analysers, APC, or related optimization tools
- Experience in remote support and performance follow-up
- Experience in technical-commercial follow-up, quotations, or service agreements
- Experience supervising contractors or coordinating site teams
To Be Successful in This Role We Are Looking For:
- High customer credibility
- Strong technical ownership
- Structured reporting discipline
- Calm and analytical troubleshooting approach
- Ability to work independently in high-pressure site conditions
- Strong cross-functional collaboration across sales, service, product, and customer teams
Apply now and become part of a team that is driving smarter and more sustainable industrial operations!
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