Process Control Engineer II

Location: San Diego, California, USA office; availability for 25% domestic travel and onsite field work required

Salary: $80,000–$110,000 annual compensation, plus an annual discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is an environmental solutions company delivering engineering and consulting services for complex air, water, soil, and regulatory challenges.

What you will do

• Support process control designs for advanced water treatment systems across 2–3 simultaneous projects.
• Create functional specifications, control narratives, sequence-of-operation charts, instrument specifications, I/O lists, control tables, and alarm lists.
• Support PLC, HMI, VFD, and SCADA integration, including program review, testing, documentation, and customer system integration.
• Coordinate control requirements with design teams, vendors, customers, fabrication partners, and contractors.
• Assist with electrical, process, mechanical, piping, pump, heat-transfer, and instrumentation design activities.
• Support pilot testing, factory acceptance testing, construction oversight, startup, commissioning, troubleshooting, QA/QC, and project documentation turnover.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, process, mechanical, environmental engineering, or a related field; chemical engineering preferred.
• 2–7 years of professional experience in process, chemical, or controls engineering, preferably in environmental remediation, water treatment, or air treatment.
• Knowledge of control hardware and software, process drawings, water chemistry, process engineering, heat transfer, fluids, thermodynamics, and automated treatment systems.
• Experience with controlled engineering documents, drawing and specification registers, revision histories, technical writing, and project documentation.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation to the office and job sites.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, interpersonal, and attention-to-detail skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Studio 5000 or Siemens STEP 7 TIA Portal.
• Professional Registration eligibility or a passed FE Exam.
• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• AutoCAD drafting experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-first approach across engineering, field, and project activities.
• Work on environmental projects focused on water treatment and protection of communities and ecosystems.
• Collaboration with scientists, engineers, field teams, consultants, vendors, and customers.
• Annual discretionary bonus based on experience, skills, and geographic location.