Instrumentation & Controls Specialist

Your Job

Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), a Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) company, is looking to add an Instrumentation & Controls Specialist to our growing team in North America.

This position will be located in Wichita, KS.

The successful candidate will help KTS create long-term value for customers and society, pursue continuous innovation, and expand the business into new areas.

This candidate will work as part of KTS's Global Instrument Engineering community, providing professional instrument capability to support the design, equipment testing, piloting and commissioning of process technology solutions.

The role involves significant customer interaction, supporting piloting and commissioning activities as customer sites primarily within the USA and Canada.

Our Team

Koch Technology Solutions (KTS) is a technology licensing business, a part of Koch Engineered Solutions.

KTS creates value for our customers across a growing portfolio of technologies including the Polyester Value Chain, 1,4-Butanediol plus its derivatives, Advanced PET Recycling & Direct Lithium Extraction.

We can combine our exclusive technologies, expertise and capabilities with those of other KES companies to provide overall solutions to optimize your capital investments and existing manufacturing assets.

What You Will Do


* Be an integral member of the development and implementation team for new processes to ensure effective control is at the heart of the design.


* Provide instrument and control support to the Lithium pilot program, supporting KTS customers to effectively execute programs (PLC programming and remote data gathering and analysis).


* Play an active role in the factory acceptance testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning and fault finding of instrumentation and control systems.


* Deliver instrument design packages for process-technology licensing, working in collaboration with multi-disciplined teams.


* Design and verify the design of critical safety-system logic.


* Work collaboratively to develop insights into real-time process data.


* Play an active role in transforming the business, striving to find new ways to create the greatest value.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements (Basic Qualifications):


* Experience pre-commissioning and commissioning instrument and control systems


* Thorough grounding in basic process-control theory


* Fundamental electrical engineering knowledge


* Experience developing instrumentation and control solutions for process industry projects


* Willing and able to travel both domestic and international, expected to be about 25% of the time.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Experience working in a Principle Based Management (PBM) culture.


* Qualified for PE registration.


* Experience maintaining instrumentation on a manufacturing site.


* Practical experience of PLC configuration.


* Understanding of real-time data acquisition.


* Excellent com...