# Staff Process Controls Engineer - Networking and Systems Administration

**Company:** [Mariana Minerals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mariana-minerals)
**Location:** Houston, TX
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Industrial Controls, Networking, Systems Administration, Ignition, Fiber Optics, Network Architecture, Control Systems, P&Ids, System Architecture, Control-System Programming, Machine Learning, Instrumentation, Process Optimization, Capital Projects
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Leads networking, systems administration, instrumentation, and controls infrastructure for mineral-refining facilities, from equipment design through commissioning and ramp. Requires at least seven years of control-system networking experience, expert Ignition knowledge, and experience delivering large capital projects.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead equipment and plant-wide controls infrastructure scopes from concept and modeling validation through procurement, engineering, fabrication, installation, commissioning, ramp, and handover.
- Manage external equipment providers, technology licensors, and engineering companies to deliver integrated mineral-refining scopes.
- Lead cross-functional teams through technical equipment scale-up and commercialization of novel mineral-refining processes.
- Support hiring, mentorship, and day-to-day management of junior engineers.
- Select, procure, calibrate, and install instruments, valves, and analyzers.
- Support machine-learning applications for industrial-facility control and optimization.
- Identify automation opportunities for capital-project execution workflows and advanced plant-control algorithms.

## Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and problem-solving ability.
- Experience with equipment engineering and design, including brownfield modifications and upgrades, greenfield equipment design, operating-equipment evaluation and optimization, and operations support.
- Strong instrumentation and controls fundamentals.
- 7+ years of direct experience in networking and systems administration for control systems.
- Experience designing, procuring, installing, and commissioning network architectures.
- Experience managing fiber installation.
- Expert-level knowledge of Ignition.
- Experience managing plant networks and securely interfacing them with business networks.
- Ability to review P&IDs and develop system architecture drawings.
- Experience with control-system programming.
- Experience in industrial manufacturing, large-scale mining or mineral processing, large-scale chemical production, or engineering, procurement, and construction environments.
- Experience leading engineers and technicians directly or indirectly.
- Experience managing and executing medium- to large-scale capital projects exceeding $5 million.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $150,000–$190,000.

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