Process Control Engineer: Refineries & Petrochem (6-Month)

Airswift; Westlake (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Airswift is seeking a Process Control Engineer for a 6-month assignment in a refinery/petrochemical setting. You will optimize process control, support automation, and drive operational improvements to boost throughput, quality, and energy efficiency.

Based at a Lake Charles area facility, you will collaborate with operations, maintenance, process engineering, and project teams while ensuring process safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of process controls, operations engineering, or process engineering in refinery/petrochemical facilities.
• Strong understanding of process control systems and automation technologies.
• Experience supporting process safety management programmes.
• Ability to obtain or maintain a TWIC card.
• Experience with Foxboro IA distributed control systems.
• Experience with Emerson DeltaV distributed control systems.
• Desirable: experience with advanced process control applications.
• Desirable: PLC experience (Triconex, GE Fanuc, Mark VI/VIIs).
• Desirable: knowledge of batch/continuous manufacturing control, hazard studies, and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support process control applications for assigned operating units.
• Develop, modify, troubleshoot, and tune distributed control system strategies.
• Support advanced process control applications and multivariable control systems.
• Design and implement control strategies to support improvements and capital projects.
• Monitor plant performance and identify opportunities to improve throughput, quality, and energy use.
• Provide technical support for PLCs, automation systems, and safety instrumented systems.
• Participate in process safety activities including hazard reviews and change management.
• Support alarm management initiatives and KPI improvement.
• Develop operator graphics and train on control strategies and system modifications.
• Support project execution activities including testing and start-up.

Skills

Process controls

Operations engineering

Process engineering

Automation technologies

Process safety

TWIC eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Foxboro IA DCS

Emerson DeltaV

Triconex

GE Fanuc

Mark VI/VII

SAP

Job description

Airswift is seeking a Process Control Engineer for a 6-month assignment in a refinery/petrochemical setting. You will optimize process control, support automation, and drive operational improvements to boost throughput, quality, and energy efficiency.

Based at a Lake Charles area facility, you will collaborate with operations, maintenance, process engineering, and project teams while ensuring process safety and reliability.