Description
Shell Polymers Monaca is hiring experienced Process Controls Engineers to take ownership of systems supporting safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation.
This role offers the opportunity to solve complex plant problems, improve automation reliability and control performance, and influence the long-term direction of a highly integrated automation environment.
Process Automation & Production Support
- Provide technical ownership and support for DCS, PLC, equipment-control, HMI, machinery-protection, condition-monitoring, and industrial communication systems.
- Troubleshoot complex automation, instrumentation, alarm, control-performance, and system-integration issues.
- Improve plant performance through control tuning, alarm optimization, sequential control changes, control-strategy improvements, and recurring-problem elimination.
- Support rotating-equipment protection and monitoring platforms and their interfaces with plant control systems.
- Design, review, test, and implement automation changes through the Management of Change process.
- Support startups, shutdowns, commissioning, outages, and plant troubleshooting.
- Lead or participate in incident investigations and automation reliability improvements.
- Maintain configuration integrity and technical documentation while contributing to long-term automation, reliability, and process-safety priorities.
- Support SIS troubleshooting, modifications, investigations, and lifecycle activities within the site's functional-safety processes.
What you bring
- Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis.
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in process controls, process automation, or industrial automation engineering within a continuous-process manufacturing environment.
- Hands-on experience troubleshooting, modifying, and improving DCS and PLC systems.
- Experience supporting equipment-control systems, HMIs, field devices, and industrial communication networks.
- Working knowledge of process operations, instrumentation, control systems, and process safety principles.
- Experience working within a Management of Change (MOC) process.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Technology Environment
- Control Systems: Emerson DeltaV and DeltaV SIS; Rockwell CompactLogix, Studio 5000, RSLogix 500, and PanelView; Siemens SIMATIC S7 and PCS 7
- Equipment & Turbomachinery Controls: GE Mark VIe and Woodward systems
- Machinery Protection & Monitoring: Bently Nevada 3500, System 1, and Prognost Predictor
- Industrial Communications: Profibus, Modbus, OPC, and EtherNet/IP
What we offer
- Base salary range: $124,000 - $186,000 per year.
- Insurance coverage options, life insurance, business travel accident insurance, occupational accidental death benefit programs.
- Company pension plan and 401(k) plan.
- Paid leave, including vacation time, holidays, and parental leave.