Senior Process Controls Engineer (DCS/PLC)

Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania, or LaPorte, Texas, United States. The role requires 25–40% travel, mainly across the Americas and mostly within the United States, plus participation in a shared 24/7/365 on-call rotation.

Company

hirify.global is a world-leading industrial gases company producing and supplying oxygen, nitrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.

What you will do

• Troubleshoot urgent operational issues involving process instrumentation, DCS and PLC control logic, control panels, and engineering and operator control stations.
• Support instrumentation and process control systems for new and existing industrial gas facilities across North and South America.
• Implement safe improvement projects with multidisciplinary engineering and site operations teams.
• Support maintenance outages, preventive maintenance, productivity modifications, and obsolete equipment upgrades.
• Improve asset safety, reliability, operating cost, and performance while addressing process control system obsolescence.
• Develop long-range plans for safety, reliability, productivity, and obsolescence activities across the facility fleet.

Requirements

• Experience with process automation systems and instrumentation.
• Hands-on knowledge of automation systems, control panels, and field instrumentation.
• Experience providing technical leadership, training, mentoring, and technical presentations.
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering is preferred but not required; 12+ years of relevant process automation or instrumentation engineering experience may substitute for the degree.
• Ability to travel 25–40%, mainly in the Americas and mostly within the United States.
• Flexibility to participate in a shared 24/7/365 on-call rotation, plus a valid driver’s license and good driving record.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace focused on safety, operational excellence, innovation, and environmental stewardship.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from the first day of employment.
• 401(k) plan with a fully vested company core contribution and match.
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, and up to eight weeks of paid parental leave.
• Backup child and adult care, adoption assistance, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, legal coverage, identity theft protection, and an employee assistance program.