Senior Instrumentation & Controls Engineer – Nuclear

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate within a project team alongside engineers and designers to design, modify, and analyze both new and existing power plant control systems.

• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve electrical control engineering challenges.

• Create designs for digital systems that incorporate PLC, DCS, HSI, networked computer systems, and control systems.

• Draft functional requirements and procurement specifications for control systems.

• Design mechatronics and control systems for various applications including pumps, valves, heat exchangers, steam turbines, and reactors.

• Conduct critical cyber assessments of digital assets and carry out assessment reviews.

• Participate in client meetings and site visits to confirm project scope and ensure client satisfaction.

• Support the project manager/director in successfully completing projects on schedule and within budget.

• Prepare and evaluate scaling, uncertainty, and setpoint calculations for both digital and analog control applications.

• Engage with vendors, conduct document reviews, and create specifications for material and equipment purchases.

• Produce clear and concise technical reports and studies.

• Independently assess design documentation, specifications, calculations, and drawings.

• Actively participate in professional Communities of Practice.

• Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited program.

• A minimum of seven years of experience in designing instrumentation and control systems within a project team environment, specifically for commercial and industrial applications, with an emphasis on integrated and detailed system design for modifications to existing nuclear power plants.

• Expertise in selecting equipment, materials, control philosophy, and preparing design packages, calculations, and specifications.

• Proficient in controls system design, including applications for low and medium voltage distribution systems and controls for turbines, pumps, feedwater controls, and data displays.

• Strong technical knowledge of available equipment and proven pre-engineered systems to facilitate systems design.

• Experience acting as the firm's client liaison in a support or lead engineering capacity.

• Background in reviewing design documentation.

• U.S. work authorization; Sargent & Lundy does not provide sponsorship for work authorization in the U.S.

• A Professional Engineer (PE) license is preferred.

• Familiarity with AI, automation, programming, or similar technologies is appreciated but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision health plans.

• Life & Accident Insurance.

• Disability Coverage.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

• Back-Up Daycare.

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA).

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Pre-Tax Commuter Account.

• Merit Scholarship Program.

• Employee Discount Program.

• Corporate Charitable Giving Program.

• Tuition Assistance.

• Bonus for First Professional Licensure.

• Employee Referral Bonus.

• Paid Annual Personal/Sick Time (PST).

• Paid Vacation.

• Paid Holidays.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Paid Bereavement Leave.

• Flexible Work Arrangements.

• Eligibility for yearly discretionary bonus.