I&C Design Engineer - Principle

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking qualified candidates for a Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) Principal Design Engineer opportunity to support an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) project.

Location: Arnold AFB – Tullahoma, TN

Instrumentation and Controls (I&C) Principal Design Engineer

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge and leadership as described below. This position has oversight of a specific project area and acts as a representative of the engineering discipline ensuring technical accuracy in project execution in all phases. This is a lead position on assigned projects performing engineering assignments of advanced complexity.

• Under general supervision of the Discipline Lead Engineer, serve as a Supervising Lead providing guidance/supervision to other engineers and designers

• Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding technical solutions to problems of advanced complexity in accordance with project requirements

• Develop and review specifications and design criteria
• Perform and check engineering analyses and calculations; specify materials, equipment and systems; and solve technical problems of advanced complexity

• Coordinate technical issues with other disciplines, project management, vendors and clients
• Execute work in compliance with Project Quality Plan and procedures
• Execute work in accordance with the approved project scope, cost and schedule baselines
• Develop and review estimates, schedules and progress reports including effort-hour estimating and staff forecasting

• Establish, control and report on material key quantities; provide analysis and forecasts
• Provide technical support to activities associated with equipment and material procurement and subcontracting including scopes of work, technical bid evaluations and review of vendor submittals
• Provide technical support to activities associated with construction administration including response to construction requests-for-information and field changes

• Other duties as assigned

Basic Job Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required
• Bachelor of Science degree in Control Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
• Chemical Engineering or related engineering field and minimum fifteen (15) years of work related experience

• Professional Engineer license
• Working knowledge of applicable federal (including Department of Energy orders), state, and local codes and standards

• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to project management, coworkers, clients, vendors, and subcontractors

• Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job
• Advanced knowledge of discipline codes and standards
• Ability to perform work in compliance with applicable local, state, and federal codes, statutes and guidelines

• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner
• Intermediate computer and software skills to include proficiency in the use of word processing, e-mail, spreadsheet and electronic presentation programs

• Significant experience providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services on large industrial projects

• Proficiency executing large EPC projects utilizing engineering analysis, 3D modeling and 2D computer-aided drafting and design (CADD) automation tools in a multi-discipline environment

Discipline Specific Job Requirements

• Perform a broad range of I&C design activities, including design definition, control systems architecture and development, digital systems, PLC, DCS, network configuration, logic development, network switches, process controls, P&ID development support and review,

• HMI, communication protocols, routing, and layout, SIL, and procurement activities
• Perform control systems sizing calculations for control valves, relief valves, flow elements, thermowells and other instrumentation

• Create instrument index and datasheets, generate reports, and monitor design wiring and loop development activities in Intergraph SmartPlant Instrumentation database

• Develop complex control systems narrative specifications
• Prepare complex instrument design and installation requirements
• Develop complex control systems logic diagrams and/or cause and effect diagrams
• Represent control systems in model reviews; closely monitor 3D modeling prepared by the design group using review software

• Review and audit specifications for Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic
• Controller (PLC) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) hardware and software applications
• Monitor DCS/PLC/SIS design developed by the design group

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of commercial availability and cost of materials

• Experience with design of systems, structures and components for nuclear facilities under the requirements of ASME NQA-1

• Demonstrated experience managing and leading large projects
• Proficiency with project set-up, development of control-level schedules, progress reporting and project close-out

• Practical field experience
• EPC project experience for the following industries:
• U.S Department of Energy or other U.S. Federal Government Agency
• Nuclear facilities under a nuclear quality assurance program
• Manufacturing, pharmaceutical or biotechnology
• Proficiency with Bentley MicroStation
• Proficiency with Autodesk AutoCAD
• Proficiency with Intergraph SmartPlant Instrumentation (SPI)

Advanced knowledge of:

• Specifying instrumentation
• Control systems procurement activities
• Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) representation; can recognize/report problems associated with control systems representation on P&ID
• Developing control strategies and represent on P&ID
• Knowledge and experience developing safety requirement specifications for Safety
• Instrumented Systems
• Practical experience in Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) and Hazard and Operability
• (HAZOP) reviews and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) assignment
• Experience in SIL verification calculations
• Experience in commissioning and startup of Distributed Control Systems (DCS),
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)