Job Title: Control Engineer (DeltaV Automation)
Location: Louisiana, MO
Schedule: Monday – Friday
Pay Range: $90,000-$120,000/year
Job Description:
USPRO is seeking an experienced DeltaV Automation / Controls Engineer to join a global leader in industrial manufacturing and commercial explosives technology. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on controls professional looking to take ownership of a mature, mission-critical automation environment supporting complex manufacturing operations.
Unlike a traditional controls design role, this position combines control system administration, troubleshooting, optimization, lifecycle management, and field collaboration. You’ll work closely with Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) technicians, engineers, and contractors to ensure the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of critical plant automation systems.
The role offers an ideal balance between technical engineering work and plant-floor support, with approximately 60% workstation-based engineering and 40% field-based troubleshooting and collaboration.
Military experience equivalency may substitute for some requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Monitor, maintain, and optimize DeltaV Distributed Control Systems (DCS) to ensure safe and reliable plant operation.
- Perform DeltaV firmware updates, lifecycle management, and system administration activities.
- Support the planned migration from DeltaV Version 14.3.1 to DeltaV Version 16, including testing, implementation, and validation.
- Install operating system patches, service packs, security updates, antivirus protection, and software fixes.
- Maintain system security, user access management, configuration libraries, backups, and control system standards.
- Configure and support alarm management systems, alarm attributes, event logging, and historical data collection.
- Develop and maintain: Control loop functional specifications, Control strategies, Logic block diagrams, SAMA diagrams, and Engineering documentation
- Analyze and improve control loop performance utilizing Emerson Insight and other diagnostic tools.
- Support preventive and predictive maintenance initiatives by partnering with Electrical & Instrumentation technicians.
- Utilize ValveLink and related diagnostic tools to improve equipment reliability and support planned outages.
- Troubleshoot control system issues affecting live production while minimizing downtime.
- Coordinate and oversee work performed by internal E&I technicians and third-party contractors.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Required Qualifications:
- Associate’s degree in Engineering, Electrical Technology, Automation Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- Minimum 5 years of experience supporting industrial automation or process control systems.
- Hands-on experience with Emerson DeltaV is required.
- Experience supporting Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and/or PLC-based automation.
- Experience working within industrial manufacturing, chemical processing, refining, mining, or other continuous process environments.
- Familiarity with DeltaV or Rockwell Automation ControlLogix platforms.
- Experience supporting Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems.
- Working knowledge of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), ISA-84, and IEC 61511 standards.
- Experience with SQL Server, Microsoft Access, or industrial data management systems.
- Understanding of industrial networking principles.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across operations, maintenance, engineering, and contractor teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading or supporting DeltaV version upgrades.
- Control loop tuning and process optimization experience.
- Alarm rationalization and alarm management expertise.
- Preventive and predictive maintenance program support.
- Chemical manufacturing, refinery, or process plant experience.
- Experience coordinating work performed by Electrical & Instrumentation technicians and outside contractors.
Military experience equivalency may substitute for some requirements.
***For consideration for this opportunity, please email your resume to info@uspro.net and include in your message the job title AND five-digit number that follows the job title***
Equal Opportunity Statement:
USPRO is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability and/or other protected categories. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodation(s) to qualified individuals with disabilities or needs, as required by law.
