Synthomer is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection – growing markets that serve billions of end users worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK and publicly listed there since 1971, we employ c.3,900 employees across our 5 innovation centres of excellence and more than 29 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America and Asia. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products.
At our innovation centres of excellence in the UK, Germany, China, Malaysia and Ohio, USA we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits. Since 2021, we have been proud holders of the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, which recognises green technology businesses making a significant contribution to a more sustainable, low-carbon economy.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day maintenance, troubleshooting and programming of current process control. Operations includes batch and continuous processes along with supporting utilities and ancillary facilities. The site operates on several types of automation platforms from legacy (Allen Bradley, Foxboro and Modicon) to state of the art (Emerson DeltaV).
- Direct and support E&I Technicians and Mechanics during equipment installation and troubleshooting scenarios
- Act as Subject Matter Expert for Control System Improvement Projects including platform migrations at the plant and potentially other sites
- Understand process control issues and develop solutions to enhance process with operations and process engineering
- Provide after-hours call-in duty as needed
- Collaborate with production and maintenance staff to ensure plant operations are smooth and reliable
- Travel associated with this position would be ≤5%.
- Provide input on small projects, large capital expenditures, safety assessments, automation standards, and alarm management
- Maintenance of OT servers and OT switches, updating patches and anti-virus
- Communication protocol knowledge/understanding (OPC DA/UA, Modbus/Modbus+, Serial RS 232/485, TCP/RTU, Prosoft)
- OS migrations experience a plus
- Self-motivator who takes ownership and eagerly tackles large challenges
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably in Chemical, Electrical, Controls, or other related engineering field.
Experience:
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment or with an integrator is preferred; however, new graduates interested in process controls in a manufacturing environment are also welcome to apply.
- Practical/applied experience with continuous/batch programming, automation system process control technologies (DCS, PLC, SCADA, OPC, DA, APC, RTO, etc.)
- Experience with Emerson, Rockwell, and Foxboro products is a plus
- Knowledge of S88, ISA84, and ISA18.2 is also a plus
- Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations
Qualification Criteria:
- Be legally authorized to be employed in the United States
- Have a valid driver’s license with no restrictions
- Possess excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills
- Possess good organizations skills
- Be an effective team player and interact well with others
- Effectively and efficiently establish priorities and accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously
- Must pass background check, physical, and drug screen
🌍 Global Benefits Overview
💰 Competitive, market-aligned compensation
🎯 Discretionary global bonus scheme
📈 Discretionary Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – for senior positions
🚗 Company car or car allowance – varies by region and role
🩺 Healthcare – tailored to regional locations
👶 Parental leave and family support – maternity, paternity, adoption (aligned with regional policies)
🏡 Working options – flexibility where it matters, based on role and business needs
📚 Learning & development opportunities – training, online platforms, buddy/mentorship programs, Internal Synthomer University with L&D offers
💙 Wellbeing support – employee assistance program (EAP), mental health resources, wellbeing initiatives
🌱 Retirement / pension contributions – plans vary by country
🤝 Culture of Inclusion – where everyone can thrive
🏆 Performance culture, global reward & recognition programmes
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Chemical, Electrical, Controls or related)
- Legally authorized to be employed in the United States
- Valid driver's license with no restrictions
- Practical/applied experience with continuous/batch programming and automation technologies (DCS, PLC, SCADA, OPC, APC, RTO)
- Knowledge of communication protocols (OPC DA/UA, Modbus/Modbus+, Serial RS232/RS485, TCP/RTU, Prosoft)
- Maintenance of OT servers and OT switches, applying patches and anti-virus updates
- Provide after-hours on-call/call-in duty as needed
- Pass background check, physical exam, and drug screen
- Minimum ~5 years' experience in manufacturing or with an integrator
- Experience with Emerson, Rockwell (Allen-Bradley), and Foxboro products
- Knowledge of S88, ISA84, and ISA18.2 standards
- OS migrations experience
- Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations
- Strong verbal, written listening, organizational skills and ability to work collaboratively
What We Do
Synthomer is a business-to-business speciality chemicals producer. We create value for all our stakeholders by applying our expertise and innovation capabilities to provide high-performance water-based polymers and ingredients to a wide range of blue-chip customers in multiple attractive end markets. Synthomer are headquartered and stock listed in the UK. We have more than 30 operational sites across Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia including four innovation centres of excellence. The Company employs around 4,200 entrepreneurial, highly skilled employees with the expertise and experience to drive our success worldwide.
