Senior Process Controls Engineer - Allentown PA or LaPorte TX

About the role

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities. We have an immediate opening for a Senior Process Controls Engineer working either out of our Global HQ in Allentown, PA or out of our regional engineering office in LaPorte, TX. Ability to travel 20%-40%, mainly in the Americas, mostly US domestic (East to West Coast). On-Call required: The team shares 24/7/365 support for these facilities, 15-member team rotation.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshooting urgent and immediate operational needs for remote facilities; everything from Process Instrumentation, to DCS and PLC control logic, to Engineering and Operator Control Stations.
• Safely implementing improvement projects with multi-disciplinary teams, and supporting maintenance outages for routine PM tasks, productivity modifications, or obsolete equipment upgrades.
• Supporting the improvement and optimization of existing assets, addressing instrumentation and process control system obsolescence challenges, and meeting organizational goals for safety, operational cost, and performance.
• Developing and supporting strategic long-range planning for safety, reliability, productivity and obsolescence activities across our fleet of facilities.
• Working closely with operating facilities as the expert in DCS and PLC automation system design and support, and process instrumentation and control devices, to keep plants operating safely and providing product to customers.
• Supporting the instrumentation and process control system needs of new and existing industrial gas facilities in North and South America that supply Oxygen, Nitrogen, Helium, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen by direct pipeline, or liquid bulk transportation to customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering preferred