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Our mission is to create positive & systemic impact for the critical industries that sustain life. We value innovation and take pride in challenging the status-quo; we choose to view obstacles as opportunities. We value new ideas and encourage the team to apply creativity and invent new solutions to meet challenging demands. We foster open, direct communication, and a collaborative working environment through our unique approach to work culture. We value our employees and demonstrate that through our compensation and benefits programs and opportunities for growth and development.\nAbout Tidal Vision’s Unique Work Culture:\nTidal Vision strives to build and invest in the highest performing and most innovative team. We put our people and customers above process, avoid company-wide rules as much as possible, and have the courage to take unusual approaches to advance our mission. With this approach, we believe we can create a more flexible, fun, stimulating, creative, collaborative, and innovative organization.\nOur commitment to developing, practicing and promoting direct and open communication, responsibility and freedom, and leading with and seeking context is a responsibility for every role at Tidal Vision.\nPosition Summary\nTidal Vision is seeking a Process Controls Engineer to improve the performance, reliability, and safety of our chemical processing and manufacturing operations.\nThis 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nEvaluate manufacturing processes to improve throughput, yield, product consistency, chemical consumption, energy use, reliability, and safety.\nEvaluate instrumentation selection and placement, control valve sizing, pumps, and piping arrangements using appropriate sizing and process calculations.\nDevelop and refine control strategies for dosing, mixing, heating, cooling, and batch operations in collaboration with the automation team.\nAnalyze historian data, troubleshoot process variability, and tune control loops to improve stability and performance.\nDevelop and review P&IDs, control narratives, operating limits, and requirements for alarms, sequences, and interlocks.\nParticipate in process safety reviews and management of change with Engineering, Operations, and EHS.\nSupport commissioning, performance testing, and operator training; verify that changes deliver measurable improvements.\nThis role partners with the automation team, which leads PLC/SCADA programming and control-system architecture.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, electrical, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent education and relevant practical experience.\n5+ years of process controls or process engineering experience in chemical processing or a comparable process industry.\nExperience with batch processing, dosing, mixing, heating and cooling, or comparable process operations.\nStrong understanding of process dynamics, PID control, instrumentation, control valves, pumps, and fluid handling.\nAbility to interpret and develop P&IDs and translate process requirements into practical equipment and control recommendations.\nDemonstrated experience diagnosing process problems and implementing measurable improvements in an operating plant.\nWorking knowledge of PLC/DCS systems, alarms, interlocks, and process safety practices.\nStrong troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently.\nPreferred Qualifications\nFamiliarity with Allen-Bradley control systems, Ignition SCADA, and historian analysis.\nExperience with pH control and advanced control strategies, including cascade, ratio, and feedforward control.\nParticipation in HAZOP/LOPA reviews and commissioning of new processes or facilities.\nWork Environment\nThis 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.\nTidal 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.\nThe 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. 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