Staff Process Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

The Plant Instrumentation and Control (PIC) team is seeking a Staff Engineer to prepare the team for moving to the ARC era. At least partially due to the “progress over perfection" mantra of early SPARC development and the lack of standards and norms when starting SPARC development, there is a lack of consistency in the SPARC PIC designs and equipment. To build ARCs remotely and to work with established utility customers we must: establish design, development, and construction standards; create a standard control signal processing platform; develop standard and norms that limit the variety of sensors, control devices, and communication protocols utilized; and in general create ARC I&C design, development, procurement, installation, and commissioning approaches, that are consistent and can be recreated using multiple different supply and construction partners in various locations in the world.

• Work both within the team and with other engineering groups to establish and/or improve existing standards, norms and processes for tasks such as selecting components, labeling components and cables, cable and wire color codes, issuing documents to vendors and installers, etc.
• Work with the software team and the electronics team to develop a standard I&C architecture platform for a majority of the control systems in ARC
• Develop standard control cabinet designs to improve consistency for cabinet build, cabinet installation and wiring, and cabinet modifications and maintenance
• Develop guidance documents for issues such as when to use individual cables versus multicore cables, selecting among various types of cable entry into cabinets, determine where and how to ground cable shields, etc.
• Develop guidance and processes to limit the variety of communication protocols, sensor and control devices types, sensor and control device vendors, etc. to provide more consistency to the I&C designs
• Review lessons learned from the SPARC era and determine how to incorporate them into the various standards and guidance documents to minimize repeating any adverse lessons learned and to promote any advantageous lessons learned
• Work with other teams to determine the best path for creating better integration between AVEVA, Team Center, NX, Odoo, and other various CFS design, development, and documentation systems
• Work with IT/OT teams to define boundaries, roles, and responsibilities for interactions between I&C / SCADA equipment and connected plant services
• Develop metrology standards for ARC era & manage SPARC operational metrology framework
• Monitor performance of PIC installed systems post SPARC commissioning, develop reliability insights
• Develop standards framework I&C continuous work processes in ARC era, including system definition & governance, long term lifecycle planning, management of change, verification, & audit
• Engineer and qualify instrumentation for high-risk or extreme environments, such as cryogenic services, high-voltage systems, or molten salt transfer
• Oversee the design & integration of DCS/PLC hardware and industrial systems platforms to create a cohesive, scalable, unified automation network
• Provide technical guidance to cross-functional system owners and lead multi-disciplinary teams to foster an environment of innovation and high-quality results
• Design and deliver training programs for technicians and junior engineers on control systems & instrumentation to prepare regional teams for plant handovers
• Act as a technical advisor to system owners, ensuring that reliability and safety standards are integrated into hardware designs from the earliest R&D phases
• Serve as the I&C subject matter expert (SME) during HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) and LOPA (Layer of Protection Analysis) studies