Process Control Engineer: DCS & Advanced Control

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company; Sweeny (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Comprehensive benefits

Alternate work schedules

Job summary

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in Sweeny, TX, is seeking a Process Control Engineer to drive safety, reliability, and operational excellence across facilities. You will design and implement advanced control systems, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams, and leveraging DCS and Aspentech DMC to optimize plant performance.

The role emphasizes innovation, continuous improvement, and a strong safety culture. Travel up to 10% and relocation support may be available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years experience OR Associates degree with 7 years in relevant engineering fields.
• Related degree in engineering, instrumentation, or electronics.
• Proficient in reading and understanding P&IDs, instrument loop drawings, schematics, and Booleans.
• Controller tuning and control system configuration experience.
• Experience designing and implementing process control strategies.
• Experience in the petrochemical industry.
• Experience with DCS and/or advanced control platforms.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements control strategies to improve safety, reliability, profitability, and environmental impact.
• Leads a multidisciplinary team to review and advance process control improvement projects.
• Configures complex regulatory and advanced control strategies in the DCS.
• Designs and implements new advanced control applications (e.g. Aspentech DMC) and maintains them.
• Leads troubleshooting efforts related to process control problems and mentors team members.
• Implements process control improvements in the appropriate control system.
• Creates KPIs for control applications and uses results to drive improvements.
• Analyzes plant data to create models and regressions for control strategies.
• Creates offline optimization tools for process control strategies.
• Supports small/medium capital projects with process control impact and designs strategies.

Skills

P&ID interpretation

DCS experience

Aspentech DMC

Regulatory control

Process control design

Petrochemical industry

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, instrumentation, or electronics

Associates degree with 7 years experience

Tools

Aspentech DMC

DCS

Job description

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in Sweeny, TX, is seeking a Process Control Engineer to drive safety, reliability, and operational excellence across facilities. You will design and implement advanced control systems, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams, and leveraging DCS and Aspentech DMC to optimize plant performance.

The role emphasizes innovation, continuous improvement, and a strong safety culture. Travel up to 10% and relocation support may be available for the right candidate.