Process Controls Engineer (PA - Hybrid)
Air Products · Allentown, PA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Controls
- Travel
- 20%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 3+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level controls role at Air Products (chemicals) in Allentown, PA.
- They ask for
- 3+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- PLC, Automation
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage · about 20% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Pennsylvania: typical posted base $89k–$133k.
Median of the low and high ends of 8 live postings that list pay, out of 23 controls engineer openings in Pennsylvania, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Pennsylvania plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 22 other live controls postings in Pennsylvania.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Less than usual (3+ vs 5+)
Typical $89k–$133k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Automation 78%
- ✓ PLC 70%
- Root cause 35%
- Validation (IQ/OQ/PQ) 30%
- Robotics 30%
- Lean 26%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for New product launch, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Air Products in Allentown
1 other open role at this site.
- Maintenance Technician · Reliability · Technician
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Required Skills / Abilities
- ✓Experience in process automation systems and instrumentation.
- ✓Hands-on knowledge of automation systems, control panels, and field instrumentation.
- ✓Strong communication skills for investigating, troubleshooting, and presenting technical information to other engineering teams and site operations teams.
- ✓This role is a Safety Sensitive position.
Key Job
Responsibilities
- ◆Troubleshooting urgent and immediate operational needs for remote facilities; everything from Process Instrumentation, to DCS and PLC control logic, to Engineering and Operator Control Stations.
- ◆Safely implementing improvement projects with multi-disciplinary teams, and supporting maintenance outages for routine PM tasks, productivity modifications, or obsolete equipment upgrades.
- ◆Supporting the improvement and optimization of existing assets, addressing instrumentation and process control system obsolescence challenges, and meeting organizational goals for safety, operational cost, and performance.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering is required.
- ✓3+ years of work experience in process automation systems and/or instrumentation engineering is required.
- ✓Ability to travel 20%-40%, mainly US domestic (East to West Coast) and. Canada.
- ✓Flexibility to be on call: Our team shares 24/7/365 support for these facilities, 15 team member rotation.
- ✓A valid drivers' license and a good driving record are required.
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Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.
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At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.
Reimagine What’s Possible
We have an immediate opening for a Process Controls Engineer at our Global Headquarters in Allentown, PA .
Automation Support Engineers in this group work closely with our operating facilities as the expert in DCS and PLC automation system design and support, and process instrumentation and control devices, to keep our plants operating safely and providing product to our customers.
You will support the instrumentation and process control system needs of new and existing industrial gas facilities in North and South America that supply Oxygen, Nitrogen, Helium, Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen by direct pipeline, or liquid bulk transportation to our customers.
What's In It for You
At Air Products we foster a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard, and everyone feels they belong and matter. Additionally, we offer competitive pay and great benefits for our employees. Check out some of our benefits below!
- •Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (day 1 of employment)
- •401k with 100% vested company core and match
- •Paid Vacation, holidays + sick time
- •Paid Parental leave (Up to 8 weeks)
- •Backup Child and Adult Care benefit
- •Adoption assistance
- •Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
- •Life Insurance (AD&D- Paid for by Air Products), Supplemental AD&D
- •Legal Plan & Identity theft coverage
- •EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- •Many more supplemental benefits available