Process Control Engineer​/Specialist

Overview

Flint Hills Resources (Koch) is seeking a Process Control Engineer/Specialist to join the Corpus Christi refinery team. This role designs and implements process control strategies to optimize refinery performance, improve reliability, and enhance operator effectiveness. You will contribute to and lead high-impact solutions that drive measurable business value.

At Flint Hills Resources, we are entrepreneurs who challenge the status quo and create value. Process control plays a critical role in ensuring the refinery runs optimized, at constraints, defect-free, and automatically.

• Design, implement, and optimize regulatory control strategies (PID, cascade, feed forward) 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

• 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

• 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)

This role is subject to the Transportation Workers Identification Credentialing (TWIC) rule and requires the successful candidate to obtain a TWIC identification badge, allowing for un-escorted access to the facility within a specific time period.

Note on compensation philosophy: Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

As a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company producing the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We supply fuel for gas stations and airports and transport crude oil, natural gas liquids, and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

We offer resources to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing, and our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Eligibility criteria vary by geographic region and plan descriptions. Please speak to your recruiter for details.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. More information is available from the recruiting team.