Lead Process Control Engineer

INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA

Interested in joining a winning team? A team whose employees are empowered to make a difference?

Job title: Lead Process Control Engineer

Location: Chocolate Bayou Works - Alvin, TX

Offer Range: $160,000 - $200,000 (commensurate with experience)

The Olefins & Polymers USA division of INEOS is one of the largest producers of olefins and polyolefins in North America. From its manufacturing locations at Chocolate Bayou and the Battleground Manufacturing Complex, it is a merchant marketer of butadiene, ethylene, polypropylene and high-density polyethylene with annual revenue of over $4b.

The Chocolate Bayou Site is located in Southwestern Texas about 40 miles South of Houston and consists of two Olefins units that produce approximately 4bn pounds/year of ethylene, 2 Polypropylene units that produce approximately 1bn pounds/ year of polypropylene, and the Light Ends storage & transfer facilities at Stratton Ridge.

How the Role Fits In

This Lead Process Control Engineer role is part of the Process Control and Operational Technology team within the Central Applied Technology organization. Engineers in this group support daily unit operations, advanced applications, process control infrastructure systems, and projects across O&P USA. This role serves as the functional lead for unit process control engineering work, helping coordinate and prioritize activities, support advanced DCS applications, and perform hands‑on projects for the Chocolate Bayou site and pipeline supply organization (PSO).

This role provides functional leadership and technical coordination for process control engineering activities while supporting the safe, reliable, and optimized operation of distributed control systems (DCS) and associated process control technologies across the site. The role has no direct supervisory or managerial responsibilities. The role serves as a key interface among operations, engineering, capital projects, and management to coordinate priorities and advance process control strategy, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The position is accountable for understanding and putting into practice the INEOS 20 Principles. Additionally, this position helps reinforce understanding of these principles across the work group through functional leadership and technical support.

Accountability: SHE Stewardship

Meet all SHE objectives and comply with all governmental laws and policies for a manufacturing site.

Supporting activities:

• Ensure process hazards are systematically identified, risk assessed, reviewed and managed.
• Always place safe operation or shutdown of the asset ahead of production.
• When in doubt ensure the asset is always taken to its safest state.
• Ensure assets operating envelopes and protective systems are in place to deliver safe operation and maintain asset integrity.
• Support operating, maintenance, and CAPEX strategies to drive asset integrity and environmental compliance.
• Promote, ensure and sustain commitment to operating assets with no harm to people and to the environment by visibly demonstrating Safety Leadership.
• Ensure that a comprehensive SHE management process delivers and improves safety performance through incident reporting, behavioral awareness, compliance with policies, audits, and corrective action tracking/resolution and incident investigation.

Accountability:
Functional Technical Leadership

• Serve as a functional technical lead, stay current on relevant technologies, and work with Team Leaders and the Technical Authority to develop roadmaps.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing for recent graduates and site process control engineers without direct supervisory responsibility.
• Help coordinate and prioritize activities for recent graduate and site process control engineers, clarify technical needs, and support successful outcomes.
• Facilitate technical collaboration, coaching, and knowledge development across process control engineering resources supporting OLE1, OLE2, PP3/4, and Utilities.
• Help establish clear technical priorities, deliverables, and work coordination needs for process control engineering activities.
• Coordinate workload priorities across units and help identify resource needs, constraints, and conflicts for resolution by the appropriate manager or Team Leader.
• Drive standardization of process control practices, philosophies, and documentation across the site.
• Provide…