Process Control Applications Engineer

Date: Jul 31, 2025

Location:

Billings, MT, US, 59101

Job Function: Information Technology

Requisition Number: 5425

Title: Process Control Applications Engineer

The Opportunity

- Process Control Applications Engineer at a growth-oriented energy company

- Competitive salary with a strong comprehensive benefits package

- Opportunity to work in a positive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment

- Career growth and development opportunities within a unique and growing energy company

- Reporting to the Process Control Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in leveraging technology to ensure the safe, reliable, and profitable operation of the refinery

Key Activities Include

- DCS programming, control configuration changes, graphic display building. Also responsible for Advanced Process Controls support including multivariable and model predictive control applications

- Improve process control architecture to optimize refinery unit performance. Identify new profit opportunities for unit optimization and introduce new technologies to the refinery

- Provide technical support on the Honeywell DCS, DMC, PLC/SIS Interface to DCS, and other complex special purpose control systems as required

- Collaborate with cross functional teams to support ongoing process control system improvements and new project initiatives. Assist field installation, loop check, construction, commissioning, and system testing for projects as required

- Monitor control performance and work closely with operations to maintain stable control. Troubleshoot and tune control loops

- Engage in furthering organizational goals, demonstrated by maintaining high standards of personal performance, professional growth, and attendance

- Demonstrate professional behaviors that mirror our Company values of Respect for Others, Integrity, Creativity and Hard Work. Foster trusting relationships with co-workers and cross-functional work area

- Support occasional refinery call-out for DCS emergency procedures

- Follow refinery safe work practices and ensure that all DCS support work follows the refinery Process Safety Management procedures

- Support shift work during MPC step testing or unit start-ups

- Other duties as required

Note: This description is intended to give you a general overview of the position. Additional responsibilities and opportunities may be identified based on current business needs.

Qualifications

To meet the basic qualifications for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.

Additional Qualifications Include

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Chemical, Electrical, or Mechanical), computer science, mathematics/data science, or informational technology required

- At least 3 years of DCS experience and/or programming experience

- Experience in Advance Process Controls, DMC, or equivalent process control tools is highly desirable

- Familiarity with alarm management and abnormal situation management applications also desirable

- Knowledge and experience with DCS, PLC’s, instrumentation, field wiring practices, and automation troubleshooting

- Experience working with P&ID’s, instrument loop drawings and DCS graphics

About Us

At Par Pacific, we own and operate market-leading energy and infrastructure businesses in logistically-complex markets. We have built a team of oil and gas industry veterans and subject matter experts to lead our organization with an entrepreneurial spirit and a collaborative, problem solving approach. We bring our diverse strengths and motivation to complex markets where we seek out diamonds in the rough. As a nimble, growing organization, we actively pursue new opportunities with corporate financing know-how, respond to local market demands, and adapt to changing external environments.

More Good Reasons to work for Par Unique Culture

There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific a niche player in the energy space. And there's certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific employees. We are driven, hardworking, entrepreneurial-minded professionals who love to win. If that describes you, you'll fit right in.

Location, Location, Location

Because Par Pacific operates in some of the most beautiful places throughout the country, our employees get to make these places their home and enrich their lives. You will work in Billings, Montana, the heart of Yellowstone Country. We have outdoor recreation in all directions and are less than an hour from the mountains. And, as Montana’s largest city, Billings offers options to balance life, work and play — with trails for walking and biking, historic sites, plenty of dining options, a myriad of cultural choices, and the largest healthcare sector between Minneapolis and Spokane.

Opportunistic growth strategy

At Par Pacific, we look for operations with strong fundamentals and great employees who can move a business forward. Our management team has deep experience in the energy industry, as well as in leading mergers, acquisitions, and integrations of newly acquired companies.

Focused on the future

We are an energy company that has recognized the imperative and embraced the opportunity to begin the transition from fossil fuels. We are developing products that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Excellent Compensation And Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance, a robust allotment of paid time off, a 401(k) with company match, retirement savings plans, educational reimbursement, and more. Full-time employees (and their families) are offered medical (with prescription coverage), dental, vision, voluntary critical illness, accident, life/AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending Account and Employee Assistance Program.  Employees can purchase company stock at discounted prices through the Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Our Headquarters

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, owns, manages and maintains interests in energy and infrastructure businesses. We are a growing energy company focused on renewable and conventional fuels in the Western United States. Par Pacific also owns 46% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a natural gas production company with operations and assets concentrated in Western Colorado. Our common stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the trading symbol "PARR".

Our Refineries and Logistics Operations

We own and operate refineries in Hawaii, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming, with total operating throughput capacity of over 219 Mbpd. Par Pacific owns and operates one of the largest energy networks in Hawaii with 94,000 bpd of operating refining capacity, a logistics system supplying the major islands of the state and 90 retail locations. In the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, Par Pacific owns and operates 124,000 bpd of combined refining capacity and related multimodal logistics systems.

Our Retail Operations

We own and operate over 90 retail locations in Hawaii under the Hele and 76 brands and over 30 retail locations in Washington and Idaho under the nomnom brand.

Par Pacific is an equal opportunity employer

Par Pacific prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable law.

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls or unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

Nearest Major Market:

Billings

Nearest Secondary Market:

Montana

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Process Engineer, Refinery, Application Engineering, Construction, Controls Engineer, Engineering, Energy