What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Controls Engineer position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch Ag & Energy Services is seeking a Process Controls Engineer to join our Fort Dodge, IA Fertilizer plant!
Our Team
This role will be reporting into Process Controls Leader and partnering with the Central Plains Nitrogen (CPN) Process Control Engineers, this Process Control Engineer will support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the company’s fleet of fertilizer plants. The key focus for the organization is to develop and improve process control performance, requiring close collaboration with plant staff and support capabilities.
What You Will Do
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Koch Ag & Energy Services is seeking a Process Controls Engineer to join our Fort Dodge, IA Fertilizer plant!
Our Team
This role will be reporting into Process Controls Leader and partnering with the Central Plains Nitrogen (CPN) Process Control Engineers, this Process Control Engineer will support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the company’s fleet of fertilizer plants. The key focus for the organization is to develop and improve process control performance, requiring close collaboration with plant staff and support capabilities.
What You Will Do
- Monitor and improve plant’s process control and safety system performance.
- Identify process control optimization opportunities and advanced control opportunities that align with Koch’s business goals for our operating plants.
- Ensure Functional Safety requirements are followed, and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) performance meets our design specifications.
- Maintain Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), control narratives, instrument and valve data sheets and other process safety information as it pertains to process controls.
- Work with Operators to review control performance, troubleshoot issues and lead technical investigations related to process controls.
- Be able to work in the field as needed to access and inspect instrumentation and control equipment.
- Work with Process Engineers and Field Technicians to troubleshoot instrumentation, control problems and plant performance issues.
- Develop implementation plans to drive control performance improvements.
- Collaborate with project engineering, plant operations and maintenance, reliability and other capabilities on larger projects and initiatives.
- Comply with all site and fleet requirements on stewardship and personnel safety.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Familiarity with Process Control Engineering concepts and equipment, and a minimum
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Engineering (i.e.: Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, etc.)
- 1 or more years of relevant industry or military experience
- Experience implementing regulatory control schemes and DCS configuration.
- Experience with safety instrumented systems and functional safety.
- Experience troubleshooting, revising, and optimizing existing control schemes.
- Loop tuning and control loop performance improvement experience.
- Experience in the fertilizer industry with Manufacturing processes, or experience in refining and major petrochemical operations.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
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