Senior Controls Engineer (I&E)

Key

• ◆Lead safety, environmental compliance, and management of change (MOC) activities for all automation and control system modifications.
• ◆Own the reliability, availability, and performance of DCS, PLC, SIS, HMI, historian, virtualization, servers, workstations, and process control network infrastructure across assigned sites.
• ◆Monitor system health, execute preventive maintenance strategies, and resolve issues proactively to minimize downtime and operational risk.
• ◆Develop, implement, and optimize control strategies, logic, alarms, interlocks, graphics, sequencing, loop tuning, and advanced process control applications.
• ◆Provide advanced troubleshooting and technical support for control systems, OT networks, instrumentation, hardware, software, and cybersecurity-related issues.
• ◆Support instrumentation reliability, commissioning, calibration, SIS lifecycle activities, proof testing, and functional safety programs in partnership with site I&E teams.
• ◆Lead automation lifecycle management, including technology roadmaps, obsolescence planning, migrations, software upgrades, cybersecurity initiatives, and long-term capital planning.
• ◆Manage control system assets, critical spares, vendor relationships, service agreements, and total cost of ownership to maximize business value.
• ◆Maintain secure OT infrastructure, including backups, disaster recovery, remote access, patch management, network administration, and cybersecurity compliance.
• ◆Maintain accurate technical documentation, including P&IDs, loop drawings, control narratives, logic records, I/O databases, network diagrams, and system architecture documents.
• ◆Lead root cause analyses and continuous improvement initiatives to improve reliability, safety, and operational performance.
• ◆Support capital projects, outages, turnarounds, FAT/SAT testing, commissioning, startup, and contractor/vendor management activities.
• ◆Drive standardization, best practices, performance metrics, dashboards, and configuration quality across all supported facilities.
• ◆Provide technical leadership, mentoring, training, regional support, and on-call assistance as required.

• ✓Bachelor's degree in electrical, Chemical, Controls, Automation, Instrumentation, or related engineering discipline preferred; equivalent industrial automation experience may be considered.
• ✓Minimum 10 years of progressive control system experience in chemical, refining, hazardous waste, manufacturing, or other continuous process industries.
• ✓Demonstrated hands-on experience with ABB 800xA and INFI 90/Symphony systems, including control system maintenance, programming, troubleshooting, commissioning, startup, and lifecycle support.
• ✓Strong knowledge of control system engineering fundamentals, including P&IDs, loop drawings, electrical and control system drawings, control narratives, ladder logic, function block logic, cause-and-effect documentation, and process control strategies.
• ✓Experience with industrial networking, virtualization, servers, workstations, process control networks, backups, cybersecurity fundamentals, and OT infrastructure management.
• ✓Proven ability to work independently, lead technical initiatives, support outages and on-call requirements, coordinate across multiple disciplines, and travel approximately 25% to support regional facilities.

• ✓Mandatory ABB experience combined with either Emerson DeltaV or Rockwell Automation experience, with preference given to candidates who possess ABB plus DeltaV expertise, or ABB plus Rockwell ControlLogix / FactoryTalk expertise.
• ✓ABB, Emerson, or Rockwell automation training, certifications, and experience with industrial networking standards, virtualizatio