Principal Consultant Engineer (Petroleum Supply Chain- Planning & Scheduling)

Aspen Technology•Houston, TX

About The Position

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role We are seeking a Principal Consultant/Engineer to join our Global Professional Services organization, who has a passion for showing our customers a better way to operate around their business challenges. The position will provide consulting to clients and using their data to implement AspenTech Petroleum Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling software and deliver innovative high value solutions that will help our customers operate faster, greener, and safter.

Requirements

BS, MS in Chemical or Industrial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research or have graduate degree within the Supply Chain Management program
At least 7+ years of consultancy, professional service experience in implementing Supply Chain software in one of our focus industries
Experience in consulting services such as gathering customer requirements and translating those into high-level solution designs using AspenTech’ s or other vendors SCM suite of products
The candidate should have a very strong career interest in supply chain and optimization work.
Fluent in English. Bi-lingual skills are a plus
Ability to travel (up to 25% travel on a calendar basis) as part of the role
Ability to work in diverse, fast paced environment and effectively collaborate across teams (Sales, Customer Support, Product Management, R&D)
Ability to juggle multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously
Proven track record in providing solid consulting services to customers
Ability to accurately estimate effort and resources required to meet project scope and delivery goals
Linear and integer programming, modeling expertise is a plus.
Experience with the implementation of planning and scheduling heuristics.
Expected to have demonstrated ability to organize, plan, manage time, and learn on the job effectively and ability to think outside of the box.
Demonstrated leadership capabilities in previous endeavors, and must have a can-do-positive attitude
Possess an inquisitive nature and a need to understand why and how things are done
Appreciate complexity and relish troubleshooting and solving problems for customers

Nice To Haves

Experience with Programming languages such as VBA, JavaScript, C++, C# or SQL Server is a bonus

Responsibilities

Gathering customer requirements and translating those into high-level solution designs for Aspen Petroleum Supply Chain suite of products
Able to articulate the value our PSC suite solution offers for current customers
Ability to effectively be the technical lead in projects, leading and coaching Jr consultants
Deliver technical documents such as Functional Specifications, Detailed Design Documents, as well as Site Acceptance Test Documents
Building, updating, troubleshooting, running, and interpreting planning and scheduling models for plants
Be confident, capable, and ability to play a proactive role, a leading role on projects.
Demonstrate collaboration with AspenTech Project Manager, involving technical to non-technical aspects of the project
Formulating business processes to support the systems based on industry best practices
Working with clients to implement the systems
Commissioning the completed systems, which may require on-site monitoring and analysis
Participation in commercial proposal development and testing of software upgrades
Provide training as needed to a customer or facilitate formal training classes