Process Control Engineer/Specialist

About the role

The Process Control Engineer/Specialist will design and implement process control strategies that optimize refinery performance, improve reliability, and enhance operator effectiveness. They will contribute to and lead high-impact solutions that drive measurable business value.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize regulatory control strategies (PID, cascade, feedforward) and DCS-based model predictive controls
• Identify and execute opportunities to improve unit performance, reliability, and constraint management
• Partner with Operations to ensure process control applications deliver sustained value and high uptime
• Troubleshoot complex process control and plant stability issues to improve overall performance
• Develop and scale Procedure Automation applications to enhance operator efficiency and consistency
• Provide ongoing support, tuning, and optimization for process control systems
• Contribute to capital projects by providing process control expertise and technical input
• Collaborate across Koch companies through knowledge networks and technical forums
• Serve as a technical resource and, based on experience, mentor and elevate team capability

Requirements

• Experience in process control within refining, petrochemical, or similar industrial environments
• Engineering degree or equivalent process control/automation experience
• Knowledge of process troubleshooting, plant stability, and control tuning

Qualifications

• Significant experience applying process control in complex refining or petrochemical systems
• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing advanced regulatory or model predictive controls
• Experience with Procedure Automation or sequencing applications
• Experience with Emerson DeltaV or similar DCS platforms
• Demonstrated ability to identify and drive opportunities that improve operational or business performance
• Experience mentoring or developing other engineers
• Knowledge of ISA 18.2 alarm management concepts
• Experience with coding, analytics, or data tools (e.g., Python)

Benefits

Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.