Process Controls Engineer

JOB TITLE:

Process Controls Engineer

REPORTS TO:

Control Systems Engineer Manager

STATUS:
Full time, Exempt

LOCATION:

Bellingham, WA

SALARY RANGE: $125,000 - $145,000/year based on relevant experience & qualifications

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• optional FSA/HSA
• 401k with 6% employer match
• life and AD&D insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• short & long term disability
• tuition reimbursement
• 21.67 days of paid time off + 10 holidays

We believe that sustainability should not require customers to compromise on price, convenience, or performance. Our mission is to create positive & systemic impact for the critical industries that sustain life. We value innovation and take pride in challenging the status-quo; we choose to view obstacles as opportunities. We value new ideas and encourage the team to apply creativity and invent new solutions to meet challenging demands.

We foster open, direct communication, and a collaborative working environment through our unique approach to work culture. We value our employees and demonstrate that through our compensation and benefits programs and opportunities for growth and development.

Tidal Vision strives to build and invest in the highest performing and most innovative team. We put our people and customers above process, avoid company-wide rules as much as possible, and have the courage to take unusual approaches to advance our mission. With this approach, we believe we can create a more flexible, fun, stimulating, creative, collaborative, and innovative organization.

Tidal Vision is seeking a Process Controls Engineer to improve the performance, reliability, and safety of our chemical processing and manufacturing operations.

This hands-on role evaluates process behavior and recommends improvements to instrumentation, equipment arrangements, and control strategies. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and the automation team, the engineer will optimize existing processes and support new equipment and plant expansions.

• Evaluate manufacturing processes to improve throughput, yield, product consistency, chemical consumption, energy use, reliability, and safety.
• Evaluate instrumentation selection and placement, control valve sizing, pumps, and piping arrangements using appropriate sizing and process calculations.
• Develop and refine control strategies for dosing, mixing, heating, cooling, and batch operations in collaboration with the automation team.
• Analyze historian data, troubleshoot process variability, and tune control loops to improve stability and performance.
• Develop and review P&IDs, control narratives, operating limits, and requirements for alarms, sequences, and interlocks.
• Participate in process safety reviews and management of change with Engineering, Operations, and EHS.
• Support commissioning, performance testing, and operator training; verify that changes deliver measurable improvements.

This role partners with the automation team, which leads PLC/SCADA programming and control-system architecture.

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent education and relevant practical experience.
• 5+ years of process controls or process engineering experience in chemical processing or a comparable process industry.
• Experience with batch processing, dosing, mixing, heating and cooling, or comparable process operations.
• Strong understanding of process dynamics, PID control, instrumentation, control valves, pumps, and fluid handling.
• Ability to interpret and develop P&IDs and translate process requirements into practical equipment and control recommendations.
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