Process Controls Engineer

Process Control Engineer

Location: Bay Area, California

Summary:

The Process Control Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining multivariable control applications and supporting technologies that optimize process-unit performance within a refinery environment. This position supports advanced process control applications, inferential property calculations, regulatory control strategies, control-loop tuning, distributed control systems, and alarm management.

The Process Control Engineer works closely with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, and Planning teams to improve process safety, reliability, profitability, and operability. The position also provides daily technical support and training to console operators and serves as a technical resource for process and control engineers.

Job Duties:

Advanced Process Control and Optimization

• Implement, deploy, and maintain multivariable process control applications, including DMC3, GDOT, inferential calculations, and other supporting applications.
• Ensure advanced control and optimization applications align with short-term and long-term operating plans.
• Develop and maintain basic and advanced regulatory process control strategies.
• Identify and implement process control improvements that enhance safety, reliability, profitability, and operability.
• Evaluate operating-area interactions with the broader refinery and assist in troubleshooting unit and refinery-wide process problems.

Control Systems and Performance

• Configure and support process control strategies and regulatory control logic.
• Tune control loops and resolve control-performance issues.
• Support Honeywell TDC-3000 and Honeywell Experion C300 distributed control systems.
• Monitor the performance of basic and advanced process control applications.
• Coordinate with instrumentation, analyzer, process, mechanical equipment, and other technical specialists to identify and resolve control-system issues.
• Use process data and analytical tools to evaluate control performance and identify improvement opportunities.

Alarm Management and Operational Support

• Provide alarm management support by monitoring alarm-system performance and identifying nuisance or ineffective alarms.
• Partner with Operations to improve alarm effectiveness and overall console performance.
• Provide daily process control support to console operators.
• Assist Operations with troubleshooting process-control and operating-area issues.
• Support the effective and consistent use of control applications across refinery operations.

Network, Security, and Application Compliance

• Collaborate with site personnel to maintain evergreen network and security compliance for basic and advanced process control applications.
• Support the reliability and availability of process-control systems and associated applications.
• Maintain control applications in accordance with applicable site requirements and technical standards.

Training and Technical Leadership

• Train refinery personnel on the effective use of process-control applications and systems.
• Provide technical support and assistance in the training of console operators.
• Serve as a mentor and technical resource for refinery process engineers and control engineers.
• Influence and improve work processes supporting global refining technical systems.
• Maintain and expand process-control expertise through onsite and offsite technical training.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Communicate regularly with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, Planning, and other refinery work groups.
• Build effective working relationships with technical specialists and operating personnel.
• Communicate control-system performance, technical issues, and recommended improvements to a wide range of stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of five to seven years of manufacturing process control engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or an advanced engineering degree is preferred.
• Ten or more years of refinery manufacturing process control engineering experience is preferred.

Process Control and Systems Knowledge

• Demonstrated familiarity with basic, advanced, and multivariable process control.
• Experience supporting distributed control systems, including Honeywell TPS, Honeywell TDC-3000, and Honeywell Experion C300.
• Familiarity with Aspen Tech DMC3, GDOT, or comparable advanced process control technologies is preferred.
• Experience developing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining multivariable control…