Senior Process Controls Engineer – DCS/PLC Expert

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

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.