Onsite Senior Process Controls Engineer DCS/PLC Expert

Sirius Talent Group; Mobile (AL); On-site; USD 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Sirius Staffing seeks a Senior Process Control Engineer for a direct-hire role at a leading chemical facility in Theodore, Alabama. The engineer will serve as the technical expert for process control, automation and safety systems, maintaining DCS/PLC/ESD/SIS, cybersecurity, and data historians while improving reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include developing maintenance programs, designing control strategies, conducting safety testing, and supporting cross-functional teams with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with at least five years of industrial experience, or an Associate degree with at least ten years in industrial electrical systems, instrumentation, and process controls.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and troubleshoot DCS, PLC, ESD, SIS, data historian, alarm management, and industrial control-network systems.
• Develop preventive maintenance, inspection, backup, cybersecurity, and testing programs for automation hardware and software.
• Design, configure, simulate, test, implement, and document control strategies, sequences, interlocks, alarms, and system modifications.
• Perform and document annual and biannual safety-interlock testing.
• Analyze process and system data to identify reliability concerns, equipment issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Optimize PID loops, alarm configurations, process calculations, and advanced control strategies.
• Support Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Environmental Health and Safety, and Laboratory personnel with troubleshooting and technical guidance.
• Participate in Process Hazard Analyses, Pre-Startup Safety Reviews, Safety Integrity Level reviews, incident investigations, and Management of Change activities.
• Design and execute automation, instrumentation, hardware, and software improvement projects.
• Coordinate contractors, consultants, vendors, capital projects, and plant-turnaround activities.
• Maintain system documentation, configuration records, backups, cybersecurity tools, and automation databases.
• Train plant personnel on automated systems, process controls, and operating philosophies.

Skills

Process control theory

PID tuning

Safety systems

Industrial instrumentation

P&ID reading

ISA IEC NFPA standards

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Associate degree in technical discipline

Tools

Emerson RS3

Emerson DeltaV

Honeywell Experion

Honeywell FSC

HIMA

Allen-Bradley PLCs

Siemens PLCs

OSI PI

Process View

Modbus

Profibus

SQL

Job description

Sirius Staffing seeks a Senior Process Control Engineer for a direct-hire role at a leading chemical facility in Theodore, Alabama. The engineer will serve as the technical expert for process control, automation and safety systems, maintaining DCS/PLC/ESD/SIS, cybersecurity, and data historians while improving reliability and performance.

Responsibilities include developing maintenance programs, designing control strategies, conducting safety testing, and supporting cross-functional teams with