Process Control Engineer
About The Position
The Process Control Engineer will lead and execute engineering projects from concept through commissioning, startup, and handover. This role involves developing scope, schedules, budgets, action plans, and risk mitigation plans. The engineer will coordinate with operations, quality, maintenance, suppliers, and contractors to ensure project success and provide hands-on support during trials, troubleshooting, installation, startup, and issue resolution. A key aspect of this role is spending time on the shop floor to understand equipment, process flow, constraints, safety concerns, and production issues, applying metallurgical and mechanical engineering principles to support material selection, process qualification, and mechanical systems. Strong communication and leadership skills are essential for collaborating with various stakeholders and driving problem-solving.
Requirements
- Associate's degree AND 7 years of relevant experience
- 5-7 years of experience in manufacturing, heavy industry, industrial equipment, capital projects, plant engineering, or similar hands-on environment
- Project management fundamentals (scope, schedule, cost, risk)
- Metallurgical analysis and materials behavior
- Mechanical systems design and evaluation
- Manufacturing process understanding
- Supplier and contractor coordination
- Clear technical communication and documentation
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineer, Metallurgical Engineering, Materials Science, or related discipline
- Heat treat equipment, steel, metallurgy, casting, forging, surface treatment, quench systems, or industrial process equipment experience
Responsibilities
- Lead and execute engineering projects from concept through commissioning, startup, and handover.
- Develop scope, schedules, budgets, action plans, and risk mitigation plans with clear owners and dates.
- Actively coordinate with operations, quality, maintenance, suppliers, and contractors to remove roadblocks and keep work moving.
- Support capital project installation, modification, troubleshooting, commissioning, and production ramp-up activities.
- Spend time in the shop understanding equipment, process flow, constraints, safety concerns, and real-world production issues.
- Provide hands-on support during trials, troubleshooting, installation, startup, and issue resolution.
- Use practical judgment to balance engineering requirements with manufacturing reality, schedule pressure, quality, and safety.
- Escalate early when blocked, propose options, and continue driving the issue instead of waiting passively for others.
- Apply metallurgical principles related to steel, cast iron, alloys, heat treatment, surface treatment, and forming processes.
- Support material selection, process qualification, metallurgical validation, and root cause analysis.
- Support mechanical systems including equipment layouts, fixtures, piping, quench systems, fluid systems, and plant utilities.
- Review drawings, equipment specifications, test results, process data, and supplier recommendations with attention to field execution.
- Communicate clearly in person, by phone, and in writing with shop employees, engineers, leaders, suppliers, and contractors.
- Drive meetings and follow-ups with clear actions, owners, due dates, decisions, and escalation when needed.
- Show professional persistence, curiosity, urgency, and accountability when solving problems.
- Be comfortable asking questions, challenging assumptions respectfully, and learning directly from people closest to the work.
- Start the day by reviewing critical project actions, blocked items, safety concerns, supplier responses, and plant priorities.
- Go to the floor, talk directly with operations, maintenance, quality, and technicians, and verify what is actually happening.
- Drive active issues by calling, walking over, escalating, or pulling people together instead of only sending emails and waiting.
- Analyze metallurgical, mechanical, process, test, drawing, supplier, or equipment data and convert it into practical next steps.
- Support project execution including design reviews, supplier coordination, installation planning, schedule updates, and startup support.
- Document decisions, owners, dates, open risks, and next steps clearly enough that others can act without guessing.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
