Flint Hills Resources - Corpus Christi, TX
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Corpus Christi, TX
10,001+ employees
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
About the position
Flint Hills Resources is seeking a Process Control Engineer to enhance the optimization and process control capabilities of its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. This role involves developing and implementing process control solutions that improve profitability and efficiency, utilizing a team-based approach and modern technologies. The engineer will focus on DCS-based controls and Procedure Automation applications, ensuring that these systems operate effectively and deliver tangible benefits.
Responsibilities
- Identify and implement process control applications that align with business vision, collaborating with a cross-functional site team.
- Work with Operations and Process Control Capability team members to ensure process control applications function as designed, delivering real benefits and maintaining high uptimes.
- Improve operator efficiency through innovative process control design.
- Provide process control support, including tuning and troubleshooting.
- Develop and sustain Procedure Automation applications.
- Develop regulatory controls including PIDs, cascades, and feedforwards, as well as DCS-based model predictive controls.
- Collaborate with other process control, automation, and innovation resources throughout FHR and Koch Industries via knowledge networks and conferences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering.
- Experience in a process control or process automation role, applying aspects of process control technology such as regulatory control, procedure automation, or model predictive control.
- Proven track record of delivering value-added process control applications.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.
- Refining or chemical processing industry experience.
- Experience with improving operator efficiency.
- Knowledge of alarm rationalization.
Benefits
- 9/80 flexible work schedule
- Teamwork and collaboration culture
- Compensation based on value created
