Controls Engineer

Job Summary: The Controls Engineer will design, program, optimize, and maintain the automated systems that regulate chemical manufacturing processes and perform quality assurance to maximize safety, production efficiency, and reliability required to support daily plant-wide operations onsite.  
Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as the main resource and bridge the gap between chemical manufacturing processes and hardware onsite, tune control loops, manage programming and implementation of safety systems.
• Perform quality assurance on existing chemical manufacturing processes for assets onsite.
• Diagnose and resolve system faults, hardware failures, and software bugs for the asset.
• Maintain Honeywell Experion distributed control system (DCS) and safety systems, mitigate risk for the organization, monitor and address DCS alarms, propose safe and strategic solutions to resolve issues.
• Reduce process variability to improve product yield and optimize processes.
• Drive process control and suitable software innovation in collaboration and keep leadership abreast of new developments and innovation related to process control engineering.
• Evaluate efficiency and recommend suitable software solutions to automate manufacturing processes that drive plant performance and production improvements.
• Collaborate closely with process operators onsite assigned to the DCS board to ensure control strategy aligns with real-world plant conditions and operational goals.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and all safety regulations, document processes and prepare progress reports.
• Comply with all environmental, health and safety related best practices, policies, and procedures, including process safety management (PSM).
• Diligently adhere to and fulfill all Responsible Care® requirements, demonstrate a steadfast commitment to safety, environmental stewardship, and ethical practices in all aspects of your position within the organization.
• Perform other systems engineering related duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, strong analytical and problem-solving skills to create and implement solutions as required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt methods in response to new information, changing conditions, and unexpected obstacles with confidence and ease.
• Must possess the ability to make decisions using discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.
• Ability to comprehend instructions and request clarification as necessary.
• Must be able to work independently and as a team member to proactively meet company goals, handle multiple assignments, and meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Statistical Process Control (SPC), project management software, and Teams.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, electrical, or control systems engineering or related discipline.
• Five years of experience in a controls engineer-related role onsite within the chemical manufacturing industry.
• Previous experience with processing hazardous chemicals in a process management safety (PSM) regulated facility preferred.
• Must have three or more years of control systems programming experience, proficiency in Honeywell Experion PKS and Honeywell Safety Manager required.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work in a hot, cold, dusty, and noisy industrial work environment.
• Occasional exposure to various chemicals.
• Willing and able to wear necessary personal protection equipment (PPE) like hard hats, safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toe boots, and other PPE required by specific jobs.
• Standing, walking, twisting, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, lifting up to 50 pounds at times may be required.
• Ability to tolerate stress created by interruptions, multiple tasks and loud noises and perform duties with a high level of efficiency.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.