Process Controls Engineer - Automation

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM

At Bakelite, you’ll help us create a better tomorrow with sustainable and innovative chemistry today.

We’re Everywhere. Everywhere you look, you’ll find products enabled by Bakelite, from stronger homes to safer automobiles and everywhere in between. With more than 100 years of history and strong customer relationships, we boldly engineer sustainable products to tackle our world’s most challenging demands.

Join Our Team and Help Us Build a Stronger, Safer, Better World.

It’s Better with Bakelite.

• You will collaborate with site personnel and key technical resources to provide process control engineering services.
• You’ll define, plan, lead and execute key non-capital and capital assignments.
• You will provide insights and expertise from analysis of batch and continuous process operating data, hands‑on troubleshooting, and interaction with other personnel in operations, maintenance, engineering, or R&D.

• The city offers lots of activities. In addition to restaurants and a bustling downtown area, you can explore Zoo Atlanta, Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta Botanical Garden and more.
• Check out some of Atlanta’s famed sports teams, including the Braves, Falcons and Hawks.
• Atlanta is home to several of the most colleges and universities in the southern U.S., including University of Georgia, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, John Marshall Law School and others.
• Love to travel? You’ll be close to Hartsfield‑Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world.

• Develop disciplined work practices for configuration of logic and graphical interfaces.
• Support automated systems, configure interfaces, ensure compliance with standard practices, write and perform verification/validation protocols.
• Assist with the development and management of the lifecycle for process control system hardware and software.
• Assist IT/OT team with infrastructure services.
• Participate in incident response, review and root cause analysis.
• Participate in management of change.
• Collaborate with internal and external engineering or operating personnel to prepare preliminary or detailed project packages for funding submission or construction.
• Select preferred equipment or contract services through bid analysis.
• Provide subject matter expertise across multiple technology platforms for the base process control systems and for functional safety (Rockwell, Honeywell, and Emerson).
• Lead commissioning and start‑up of automated systems for batch and continuous operations.
• Build capability in self and in others through assigned work and training.
• Optimize batch recipes and operation sequences to support productivity initiatives.
• Ensure successful delivery of process control project assignments.
• Complete regular status reporting and work prioritization.

• Engineering Science degree or equivalent education or training and 5 years experience in Chemical Process Industries as a process control engineer.
• Strong working knowledge of industrial automation networks and communication protocols and demonstrated application of batch recipe design and implementation.
• Strong working knowledge of power distribution and instrumentation used in the chemical process industry.
• Demonstrated success in design and application of automated procedures and visualization of process data for both operators of equipment and leaders in manufacturing, maintenance and engineering.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Aveva PI.
• Knowledge of current Microsoft tools, including database structures and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of SAP.
• Willing to travel between 35-40%.

Are you ready to help us build a better tomorrow and put your fingerprints on the world? Apply for this exciting opportunity, and learn more about our hiring process, insights from our global associates, our robust benefits and more at

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