Advanced Process Control Engineer
Location: Billings, MT
Salary: $133,000–$199,000 per year
Take a lead role in refinery process engineering with a growing energy company that values technical expertise, innovation, collaboration, and work/life balance.
Our client is seeking an Senior Process Control Engineer to support refinery operations, process optimization, capital projects, and continuous improvement initiatives. You will work across multiple process areas, including crude distillation, hydrotreating, naphtha reforming, isomerization, asphalt blending, sulfur recovery, and refinery utilities.
What You’ll Do
- Provide process control engineering support to refinery operations and maintenance
- Lead projects from concept and process design through construction and startup
- Identify opportunities to improve safety, reliability, production, and process efficiency
- Perform process control design, simulation, optimization, and debottlenecking studies
- Develop engineering specifications, project cost estimates, and economic justifications
- Support DCS projects and participate in process hazard analyses
- Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Environmental, Safety, IT, Laboratory, and Engineering teams
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering
- 5+ years of oil refining experience
- Experience with basic and advanced supervisory continuous process control fundamentals, configuration, tuning, troubleshooting, and support.
- Experience with Honeywell TDC-3000 required
- Familiarity with alarm management, abnormal situation management, historian management
- Intermediate experience in Advanced Process Controls, including MPC (specifically AspenTech DMC), online economic optimizers, etc. preferred
- Experience in refining, oil & gas, petrochemicals or similar preferred
- Exposure to and interest in more modern DCS platforms (esp. DeltaV) preferred
- Experience with distillation, fluid hydraulics, and heat transfer preferred
- Process control design, simulation, and project management experience
- Strong technical problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to manage priorities and work independently
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range of $133,000–$199,000
- Annual incentive opportunity targeted at 15%
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Employee stock purchase program
- Unlimited paid time off for eligible salaried employees
- Twelve paid holidays
- Educational reimbursement and retirement benefits
This is an opportunity to lead high-impact refinery projects, work with experienced technical teams, and contribute to the growth of a dynamic energy organization.
Apply today to advance your process engineering career in Billings, Montana.