{"id":2177826,"url":"https://alion.io/job/koch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer","title":"Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer","company":{"id":13911,"name":"Koch Industries","domain":"kochinc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/kochinc","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Avature","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":16,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":12,"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Rosemount, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":180000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":180000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-09T14:21:03Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-09","last_verified_at":"2026-10-13T00:58:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Your Job\nThe Advanced Process Control (APC) Engineer will evaluate, prioritize, and capture sustainable value from multiple APC and Real-Time Optimization (RTO) opportunities for the Pine Bend Refinery. They will learn to transform our APC Engineering capabilities from a technical service into a cross-unit optimization and controls capability, and explore new or emerging technologies that advance Pine Bend’s competitive advantage.\nThe successful candidate will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to support APC and RTO software solutions and model development to better improve overall system availability, performance, and reliability. The successful candidate will have the drive and passion to collaborate with operations and optimization to prioritize multiple, simultaneous, high-profile business requests and aggressively pursue the highest-value alternatives while building and maintaining strong relationships with our key operations, engineering, and management stakeholders.\nOur Team\nOur team consists of APC engineers and AI process control engineers, with a mix of technical experts and developing talent, that provide the modeling and control expertise necessary to turn optimization strategies into control solutions. APC Engineers collaborate with other members of the PC Capability in small tactical teams, including a System Optimization Engineer, 6th Process Lead, DCS Engineer, and members of one or several Business Teams to develop and implement the daily oil flow strategies and optimization priorities every day.\nWhat You Will Do\nPartner with teams of optimization engineers, operations experts, process engineers, process control engineers, and/or vendor consultants for model prioritization and development. \nPrioritize, design, develop, build, test, commission, and document APC applications using DMC3 and other tools in support of optimization objectives for an area of the refinery. \nProvide insights and short-term support for system optimization and oil flow planning in collaboration with operations and optimization team members. \nWork with vendors and internal experts to advocate for emerging technologies (i.e. artificial intelligence for process control) to advance Pine Bend’s competitive position. \nManage relationships with our operations partners to provide maximum benefit in support of the refinery’s operational profitability vision. \nEducate other refinery personnel on APC benefits and multi-variable control design, provide support and troubleshooting of process control problems for APC and RTO applications, and implement recommendations for improvements that often originate from the customer. \nDevelop and maintain lines of communication with board operators, engineers, and managers with the intent of sustaining high model utilization against an optimized constraint set. \nCommunicate effectively the value captured, opportunity lost, and control system health in each process area under study.\n Demonstrate critical and economic thinking skills through strong written and confident verbal communication.\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in engineering OR a minimum of ten (10) years of work experience with process control systems.\nFive (5) years or more of work experience as a process or controls engineer.\nExperience communicating effectively with various levels of an organization (engineers, managers, operators, team leaders, contractors).\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nTen (10) years or more of advanced process control or process engineering work experience in refining or petrochemicals.\nExperience with refinery economics, constraints, and oil flow planning.\nExperience with process modeling and/or advanced process control fundamentals.\nExperience with AspenTech’s suite of APC software tools and familiarity with RTO applications.\nExperience with troubleshooting and resolving process control strategies and problems.\nExperience designing, implementing, and tuning advanced control applications.\nThis role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.\nFor this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.\nAt 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.\nHiring Philosophy\nAll 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.\nWho We Are\nAs a Koch company, Flint Hills Resources is an industry-leading refining company making the oil and transportation products that keep the world moving. We make a large supply of fuel for gas stations and airports in addition to transporting crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products through 4,000+ miles of pipeline - delivering energy to farmers, manufacturers and families. Our team champions innovation and excellence to help power modern life.\nAt 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.\nOur Benefits\nOur 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.\nAdditionally, 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.\nEqual Opportunities\nEqual 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).","description_format":"text","description_chars":6942,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Chemical Engineering","Manufacturing","Glass & Ceramics Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T14:21:03Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":88,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.877,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":12,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":180000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/koch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/koch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T02:25:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3648,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13911},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13911"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkoch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkoch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkoch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/koch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkoch-industries-advanced-process-control-apc-engineer"}]}