Process Controls Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Lead the Process Control and Automation Center of Excellence team, establishing priorities, assigning tasks, and ensuring prompt support to various sites.

• Develop and uphold standards and protocols for process controls related to equipment, instrumentation, programming methods, and documentation.

• Act as a subject matter expert in instrument and control activities.

• Direct the design and specification of instrument and control equipment for both capital and maintenance projects.

• Oversee the reliability of SIS, DCS, and PLC, including software updates and managing system downtime.

• Supervise SIS reliability calculations and documentation for safety standard committees.

• Assist with troubleshooting, corrective actions, process incidents, and new-installation start-ups.

• Collaborate with Reliability, Operations, EHS, and IT on requirements for reliability, process safety, and cybersecurity.

• Develop and review instruction code for Rockwell PLC and Emerson DeltaV or equivalent control systems.

• Manage HMI and control-platform design, coordinating technical support from vendors.

• Investigate, test, and validate new instrumentation and programming technologies.

• Design AI-driven process improvement models utilizing machine-analysis platforms such as AWS or TwinThread.

• Resolve IT-layer and industrial IoT networking challenges related to process control networks and data historians.

• Provide standardized OT-layer designs, documentation, and implementation roadmaps.

• Maintain expertise in batching systems and manufacturing execution systems.

• Oversee multi-site control-system project programs, including scope, scheduling, and resource allocation.

• Prepare and manage the annual process-controls budget, forecasting operating and capital needs.

• Prioritize upgrades, obsolescence of control systems, and automation investments while creating supporting business cases.

• Escalate significant unfunded risks associated with control systems and participate in capital prioritization reviews.

• Monitor and report on control-system performance, project delivery, and program metrics.

• Build, mentor, and develop a geographically diverse team of process controls engineers.

• Support succession planning alongside technical and leadership development initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in chemical or electrical engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.

• A minimum of ten years' experience in the development, programming, and support of industrial control systems, with significant exposure to plant environments alongside controls technicians and electrical & instrumentation technicians.

• Proven leadership experience with engineers or technical specialists through direct supervision, project leadership, or within a matrixed team.

• Proficient in control system architecture and programming, including platforms such as Rockwell PLC, MES, data historian, and Emerson DeltaV or equivalents.

• Familiarity with industrial process control networks, network communication protocols, and data security in collaboration with the IT team.

• Capability to manage controls programs and project portfolios across multiple remote sites in a matrix organization.

• Strong skills in technical writing, organization, and communication.

• Certification in SIS calculation and familiarity with SIS calculation applications, preferably ExSILentia.

• Advanced computer skills, including the ability to work with large Excel models and to collect and interpret data across disparate systems.

• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time to manufacturing sites throughout the Americas.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.

• Successful completion of a drug test and background investigation is required.

• Authorization for periodic background checks as mandated by CFATS or other relevant regulations.

• Preferred: An advanced degree in engineering or a related technical field, or professional registration as a licensed engineer.

• Preferred: Experience with batch and continuous chemical manufacturing processes and unit operations.

• Preferred: Experience in developing standards, documenting procedures, and maintaining controls documentation.

• Preferred: Experience with TwinThread or AI-driven models for process improvement.

• Preferred: Working knowledge of SAP PM, Hexion MOC, PI, AIMs, WAVE, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office.

• Preferred: Experience in constructing capital business cases and securing funding for automation or obsolescence projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Tools, training, and opportunities for professional development.

• Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer.

• Participation in a drug test and background investigation as part of the employment offer process.