Process Optimization Services Consultant, Korea
AVEVA · Seoul
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Job Title: Process Optimization Services Consultant
Location: Seoul, Korea
Employment Type: full-time
The job
As a Process Optimization Services Consultant, you will help customers improve plant performance, reliability, and profitability by implementing and sustaining AVEVA process optimization solutions. Working as part of the Services team, this role combines deep process engineering knowledge, hands-on delivery capability, and customer-facing consulting skills. You will be expected to lead complex workstreams, guide other consultants, and act as a trusted advisor for customers across refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas, and energy-intensive industries.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of AVEVA Process Optimization and AVEVA Process Simulation, real-time optimization, and related digital twin projects from assessment through design, configuration, testing, deployment, and handover.
- Work with customers to understand operating objectives, process constraints, data availability, and business value drivers, then translate them into practical optimization scope, deliverables, and success criteria.
- Build, validate, tune, and support rigorous process models, data reconciliation workflows, optimization cases, online run sequences, and performance monitoring dashboards.
- Provide technical leadership during project execution, including solution design, issue resolution, customer workshops, acceptance testing, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
- Contribute to proposals, estimation, SOW review, delivery planning, risk assessment, and continuous improvement of AVEVA Services methods and reusable assets.
Essential requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- More than 8 years of relevant industry experience as a Process Engineer, Plant Operations Engineer, or equivalent role in refining, petrochemical, oil and gas, chemical, or energy-intensive process industries.
- Strong experience in process simulation, real-time optimization, APC, refinery or petrochemical operations, or industrial process performance improvement.
- Hands-on experience with AVEVA Process Optimization, ROMeo, PRO/II, AVEVA Process Simulation, APC tools, or similar industrial optimization and historian platforms.
- Proven ability to deliver customer-facing consulting projects, manage technical scope, and communicate clearly with engineers, operations teams, IT teams, and management stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex engagements, mentor consultants, influence solution architecture, and support commercial or strategic customer discussions.
Desired skills
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to connect process engineering, data quality, economics, and operational decision-making into measurable customer outcomes.
- Experience with Python, SQL, Power BI, PI AF, PI Vision, data integration, or AI/ML-assisted process analytics is an advantage.
- Consultative communication style with the confidence to facilitate workshops, challenge assumptions, and build trust with customers and senior stakeholders.
- Curiosity to learn new AVEVA technologies, aspiration to improve delivery quality, and a practical focus on creating impact through reliable, scalable, and repeatable services.
Services at AVEVA
Our dynamic global team of 700+ engineers, developers, consultants, solution architects and project managers are at the forefront of delivering AVEVA cutting-edge solutions to customers. The work is complex and technical, but immensely rewarding: we empower customers to harness the full transformative potential of AVEVA’s solutions. If you’re analytical, pragmatic, and driven to make a tangible impact on the sustainability of the industrial sector, our team is the perfect place for you.
Find out more: https://www.aveva.com/en/about/careers/
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.
Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world.