Hire DCS engineers by platform — because platforms don’t transfer for free
An 800xA engineer is not a PCS 7 engineer is not an Experion engineer. We recruit process-control talent platform-by-platform — ABB System 800xA, Siemens PCS 7, Honeywell Experion PKS, Yokogawa CENTUM VP, Emerson DeltaV — and screen them the way a lead engineer would.
We interrogate the platform, not the buzzword
Every DCS has its own engineering philosophy and toolchain. Our screen is specific to yours — no generic “DCS experience” accepted at face value, and no cross-vendor blur.
Platform-native depth
ABB 800xA: AC 800M & Control Builder M. Siemens PCS 7: CFC/SFC engineering on AS controllers. Honeywell Experion PKS: C300 & Control Builder. Yokogawa CENTUM VP: FCS & HIS engineering. Emerson DeltaV: Control Studio & electronic marshalling. Each questioned in its own language.
Process-control fundamentals
Control narratives to working logic, loop tuning, controller redundancy, interlock & cause-and-effect implementation, alarm rationalization to ISA-18.2, batch structuring to ISA-88 where it applies.
The high-stakes edges
Migrations and hot cutovers on running plants, FAT/SAT leadership, and safety-system exposure — SIS (Triconex, ProSafe-RS, DeltaV SIS, Safety Manager) treated as its own IEC 61511 discipline, engineered in its own tools, never blurred into BPCS work.
DCS & process-control roles we fill
Refining, petrochemicals, power, chemicals, pharma, fertilizers — end users, EPCs and integrators.
DCS Application Engineer
Logic, graphics and database engineering on your platform.
Lead / Senior DCS Engineer
Design ownership: narratives, FDS, I/O, typicals, vendor coordination.
DCS Commissioning Engineer
Loop checks, SAT close-out, start-up support on live units.
Migration / Upgrade Specialist
Legacy-to-current migrations and hot cutovers.
SIS / Functional Safety Engineer
Safety instrumented systems as a separate IEC 61511 discipline.
APC / Advanced Control
Beyond-PID optimisation on established base-layer control.
What DCS talent costs in India right now
Our published 2026 salary guide puts DCS engineers at ₹4–7 L (0–2 yrs), ₹7–14 L (3–6 yrs) and ₹14–22 L (7 yrs+) — above PLC/SCADA bands at every stage, with the DCS + functional-safety (IEC 61511) combination carrying a genuine scarcity premium in oil & gas, power and pharma. Senior platform-deep engineers in the Gujarat process belt frequently out-earn metro discrete-manufacturing peers. Full detail in the guide; live scarcity signals in the Demand Index.
Tell us the role and the constraint
Within one business day an engineer — not a salesperson — replies with an honest read: what it takes to fill the role, realistic comp for the profile, and whether we're the right firm to do it.
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What employers ask us first
Can you find engineers on our specific DCS platform?
Yes — that's the point. We recruit platform-by-platform across ABB System 800xA, Siemens PCS 7, Honeywell Experion PKS, Yokogawa CENTUM VP and Emerson DeltaV, and screen candidates in that platform's own engineering environment and terminology.
How do you screen a DCS engineer differently from a PLC engineer?
DCS work is a different discipline: continuous process control, controller redundancy, alarm philosophy, plant-wide databases and operations interfaces. Our screen covers narratives-to-logic, loop tuning, interlock implementation and live-plant behaviour — conducted by an engineer who has done the work.
Do you handle SIS / functional safety roles?
Yes, as a separate discipline. SIS engineering (Triconex, Yokogawa ProSafe-RS, DeltaV SIS, Honeywell Safety Manager) is governed by IEC 61511, engineered in its own tools, and must never be blurred into BPCS work — our screening respects that boundary explicitly.
Can you staff a migration or hot cutover?
Yes — migration and brownfield cutover experience is one of the scarcest and most valuable profiles in the market. We verify actual cutover involvement, not project-proximity claims.
What does it cost?
We work on success-fee, retained or ongoing-partnership models, agreed directly with you. You pay for outcomes, and every placement is backed by a replacement guarantee.
Hiring across the stack? See PLC programmers, SCADA engineers, commissioning & project staffing, or the full hiring desk.
Your process runs on this platform. Hire someone who truly speaks it.
Send the role and the platform — an engineer replies within one business day with a straight answer on feasibility, comp and timeline.