Process Control Engineer

Shell; Monaca (Beaver County); On-site; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Shell Polymers Monaca is hiring experienced Process Controls Engineers to own the systems that support safe, reliable, and efficient plant operation. This role solves complex plant problems, improves automation reliability and control performance, and guides the long-term direction of a highly integrated automation environment.

Process Controls Engineers work with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Projects to troubleshoot integrated systems and implement sustainable improvements.

Qualifications

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Investigate SIS trips, demands, and impairments for recurring reliability issues.
• Maintain Safety Instrumented Function documentation and support functional-safety assessments and audits.
• Develop working knowledge of IEC 61511 and assume greater SIS lifecycle responsibility as capability grows.

Skills

DCS troubleshooting

PLC troubleshooting

Process automation

Instrumentation knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering

Tools

Emerson DeltaV

DeltaV SIS

Rockwell Studio 5000

RSLogix 500

PanelView

Siemens SIMATIC S7

PCS 7

OPC/Modbus/EP

Job description

Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Discipline Engineering

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 28, 2026

Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell Polymers Monaca is hiring experienced Process Controls Engineers to take ownership of the systems that support 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 Controls Engineers work directly with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Projects. We are not looking for experience with every platform at our site. We are looking for an accomplished process automation professional who can troubleshoot integrated systems, learn unfamiliar technologies, and turn recurring problems into sustainable improvements.

This role requires strong process automation experience across DCS, PLCs, equipment-control systems, and industrial communications. Experience with rotating-equipment control or monitoring systems is especially valuable. The role also includes opportunities to support and develop broader SIS and functional-safety responsibilities.

What you’ll be doing

Process Animation & 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.

• Investigate SIS trips, demands, and impairments for recurring reliability issues.

• Maintain Safety Instrumented Function documentation and support functional-safety assessments and audits.

• Develop working knowledge of IEC 61511 and assume greater SIS lifecycle responsibility as capability grows.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

• 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

Our environment includes the technologies below. Candidates are not expected to know all of them. Relevant experience with comparable systems and the ability to learn new platforms are what matter.

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in petrochemical, chemical manufacturing, refining, LNG, or a similar process industry.

• Experience supporting a large continuous-process manufacturing facility.

• Experience with rotating-equipment controls, machinery-protection systems, data acquisition, or condition-monitoring technologies.

• Experience with process control optimization, alarm management, advanced process control, or automation reliability improvement.

• Experience leading technical investigations or supporting startups, commissioning, turnarounds, shutdowns, or major outages.

• Knowledge of SIS lifecycle management, IEC 61511, PHA, HAZOP, or LOPA methodologies.

• Functional safety certification or experience with SIS lifecycle tools such as SIFPro is preferred but not required.

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $124,000 - $186,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell’s US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html.

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together

• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead

• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices

• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise

• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself

• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working

• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.

• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents

• Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams

• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs

We’d like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we’re working towards that goal, click here .

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