About this role
Job title: Process Control Engineer/Specialist
About the Role Join Flint Hills Resources (Koch) Corpus Christi refinery as a Process Control Engineer/Specialist to design, implement, and optimize process control strategies that improve refinery performance, reliability, and operator effectiveness. The role emphasizes DCS-based controls, automation, and system optimization, contributing to high-impact solutions that drive measurable business value.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and optimize regulatory control strategies (PID, cascade, feedforward) and DCS-based model predictive controls
- Identify and execute opportunities to improve unit performance, reliability, and constraint management
- Partner with Operations to ensure process control applications deliver sustained value and high uptime
- Troubleshoot complex process control and plant stability issues to improve performance
- Develop and scale Procedure Automation applications to enhance operator efficiency and consistency
- Provide ongoing support, tuning, and optimization for process control systems
- Contribute to capital projects by providing process control expertise and technical input
- Collaborate across Koch companies through knowledge networks and technical forums
- Serve as a technical resource and, based on experience, mentor and elevate team capability
What We're Looking For
- Experience in process control within refining, petrochemical, or similar industrial environments
- Engineering degree or equivalent process control/automation experience
- Knowledge of process troubleshooting, plant stability, and control tuning
Nice to Have
- Significant experience applying process control in complex refining or petrochemical systems
- Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing advanced regulatory or model predictive controls
- Experience with Procedure Automation or sequencing applications
- Experience with Emerson DeltaV or similar DCS platforms
- Demonstrated ability to identify and drive opportunities that improve operational or business performance
- Experience mentoring or developing other engineers
- Knowledge of ISA 18.2 alarm management concepts
- Experience with coding, analytics, or data tools (e.g., Python)
Compensation & Benefits
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Eligibility varies by geographic region.
- This role is subject to the Transportation Worker Identification Credentialing (TWIC) rule and requires obtaining a TWIC badge for access to the facility within a specified time period.