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Process Controls Engineer
Tidal Vision
Bellingham, USA
Full-time
Mid · 5+ years experience
Onsite
$125,000 - $145,000 / year
Discovered 5 days ago
Role Overview
Tidal Vision is seeking a Process Controls Engineer to improve the performance, reliability, and safety of our chemical processing and manufacturing operations.
This hands-on role evaluates process behavior and recommends improvements to instrumentation, equipment arrangements, and control strategies.
Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and the automation team, the engineer will optimize existing processes and support new equipment and plant expansions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate manufacturing processes to improve throughput, yield, product consistency, chemical consumption, energy use, reliability, and safety.
- Evaluate instrumentation selection and placement, control valve sizing, pumps, and piping arrangements using appropriate sizing and process calculations.
- Develop and refine control strategies for dosing, mixing, heating, cooling, and batch operations in collaboration with the automation team.
- Analyze historian data, troubleshoot process variability, and tune control loops to improve stability and performance.
- Develop and review P&IDs, control narratives, operating limits, and requirements for alarms, sequences, and interlocks.
- Participate in process safety reviews and management of change with Engineering, Operations, and EHS.
- Support commissioning, performance testing, and operator training; verify that changes deliver measurable improvements.
- This role partners with the automation team, which leads PLC/SCADA programming and control-system architecture.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent education and relevant practical experience.
- 5+ years of process controls or process engineering experience in chemical processing or a comparable process industry.
- Experience with batch processing, dosing, mixing, heating and cooling, or comparable process operations.
- Strong understanding of process dynamics, PID control, instrumentation, control valves, pumps, and fluid handling.
- Ability to interpret and develop P&IDs and translate process requirements into practical equipment and control recommendations.
- Demonstrated experience diagnosing process problems and implementing measurable improvements in an operating plant.
- Working knowledge of PLC/DCS systems, alarms, interlocks, and process safety practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Allen-Bradley control systems, Ignition SCADA, and historian analysis.
- Experience with pH control and advanced control strategies, including cascade, ratio, and feedforward control.
- Participation in HAZOP/LOPA reviews and commissioning of new processes or facilities.
- Work Environment
- This role requires hands-on work in manufacturing environments and travel to support multiple facilities. Occasional work outside normal business hours may be necessary for commissioning and critical troubleshooting.
- Tidal Vision provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
- The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned including work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.
About Tidal Vision
Chemicals Manufacturing400 employeesFounded 2015
Biotechnology and chemical manufacturer producing scalable chitosan-based solutions for water treatment, agriculture, and materials industries.
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