Sr. Instrumentation & Controls Engineer

Who You’ll Work With

You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as a Sr. Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will join our Architecture/Engineering Process Practice and partner with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject matter experts to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.

What You’ll Do

You'll work individually and in teams to support capital projects and implement solutions for our clients. Together, you will help our clients make critical changes to improve their performance and realize their most important goals.

• Experience in executing projects for the Refining, Gas Transmission or Petrochemical industries with the highest level of quality, cost effectiveness, and a focus on safety.

• Work with other licensed engineers and experienced designers to develop instrument specifications and PLC, SCADA, and DCS based control systems for industrial facilities.

• Excellent communication skills and be able to work with other engineering disciplines, sometimes across multiple offices.

• Instrumentation and control system engineering design for industrial, manufacturing, and utilities projects.

• Specifications including calculations for flow meters, analyzers, transmitters, and other field instruments; must understand area classification.

• Perform control system studies including troubleshooting existing control systems, new system conceptual design and control system retrofits.

• Develop controls/instrumentation engineering documentation including detailed instrument specifications and selection, logic diagrams, loop sheets, instrument lists, I/O lists, and instrumentation plan drawings.

• Supervise and coordinating instrumentation/controls engineering/design efforts on multi-discipline engineering projects.

• Field support including on-site design, technical support, commissioning, and construction management.

• Provide project management for projects that are primarily instrumentation/controls in nature.

• Provide training and mentoring of junior level instrumentation/controls engineers and designers.

• Working safely in a restricted refinery location

• Proven ability to meet client deadlines.

• Make an impact day-to-day with your skills and expertise, strengthening that relationship with our clients and team

What You’ll Bring

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the engineering design of industrial control systems including instrumentation, control logic, PLC, SCADA and DCS based control systems, and control systems documentation.

• Experience in SPI / InTools in preferred.

• Demonstrated experience in cost estimating (engineering and capital costs), proposal development, marketing, and business development efforts for I&C projects is preferred.

• Experience supervising engineers, designers, and drafters as part of a control system design team.

• Safety Integrated System experience is preferred. Certificate 2 ISA/IEC 61511 SIL Specialist is a preferred.

• Willing and able to travel as necessary for project requirements to include but not be limited to: project installation and start-up activities, client meetings, company sponsored meetings, trainings, industry related seminars, forums, or conventions, etc.

• 4-year BS Engineering degree from an ABET school required.

Our culture and commitment to our people is what sets us apart. We foster an environment of mutual respect, integrity, and unconditional interest in the individual and collective success of our professionals. Our model and entrepreneurial mindset offer a rewarding, challenging, and highly flexible path. As a Sr. Instrumentation & Controls Engineer, you will build a meaningful and fulfilling career with the support of professional development resources and mentorships including our First Year Experience program, Individual Development Plans, and Career Path resources and tools. You will be surrounded by exceptional talent who will support your development as both a world-class engineer and a highly effective leader.

Feel like you're on the path to becoming a Sr. Instrumentation & Controls Engineer but you're not quite there yet? We'd love to connect with you to see if we can take you from where you are today and grow you into a Design Group Engineering Consultant.