Process Controls Engineer

Job Description

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 AspenTech DMC3, GDOT, or comparable advanced process control technologies is preferred.
• Experience developing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining multivariable control applications and inferential calculations.
• Knowledge of regulatory control strategies, control-loop tuning, alarm management, and control-performance monitoring.
• Familiarity with network and security compliance requirements for process-control applications.

Industry Knowledge

• Demonstrated familiarity with petroleum refining processes and/or blending operations.
• Ability to understand operating-area interactions with the broader refinery.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot process problems and identify control-system improvement opportunities.
• Proven contributions to safety, reliability, profitability, or operability through process-control improvements are preferred.

Technical Tools

• Familiarity with analytical and process-data tools such as PI System, Seeq, and Microsoft Excel is preferred.
• Ability to analyze process trends, evaluate control performance, and translate findings into practical improvements.

Skills and Competencies

• Effective verbal and written communication skills across a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, Technical, Planning, instrumentation, analyzer, process, and mechanical equipment teams.
• Ability to train operators and technical personnel on process-control systems and applications.
• Ability to mentor process engineers and control engineers.

Commitment to maintaining and expanding technical knowledge through ongoing professional development.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

About Teal Energi:

TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi works through its offices nationwide to provide regional support to a wide range of sectors including both traditional energy and energy transition initiatives (e.g., LNG, hydrogen, wind, solar), as well as manufacturing, mining, and infrastructure.

TealEnergi is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, disability, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, language, national origin, physical or mental ability, political affiliation, religion, sexual orientation, or protected veteran status