Instrumentation & Control Systems Lead Design Engineer

Job Description Summary

This Mid-level role Instrumentation & Control Systems Design Engineer is responsible for design and analysis of process instrumentation and support of control systems interfaces for nuclear power plant applications. This includes plant process instrumentation and digital controls systems requirements and specification development.

Job Description

Responsible for Plant I&C Systems design activities that support:

• GE's BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor (SMR)

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates accountability for cost, schedule, quality, and technical accuracy of assigned tasks. 
• Provide technical guidance and support project scheduling and resource planning, develop talent through mentorship, and act as the point-of-contact between your engineering team and both internal and external customers.
• Lead and support Instrumentation Application Engineering (IAE) technical work scopes including IAE design scope interfaces with architectural engineering firms.
• Support I&C System design and development from conceptual through preliminary and detailed design, fabrication, assembly, production test, validation test as well as site installation, start-up test, and commissioning.
• Perform and support design and related technical scope from Conceptual, Preliminary, and Detailed Design including successful completion of nuclear regulatory design certification or plant licensing as well as procurement packages and hand-off to suppliers for implementation all applicable system, and component requirements; interfaces, function, performance, design assurance process, qualification, standards, regulatory guidance, certification or licensing commitments, technical contract, human factors, safety hazards, reliability, cyber security, etc.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to define and achieve functional, performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) targets and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
• Collaborate with system supplier implementation teams to develop, perform, and review unit, module, system, and integration test plans, procedures, and reports including factory acceptance test, site acceptance test, construction, pre-operational, and start-up tests.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, or Mathematics from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in industrial Instrumentation and control such as nuclear, power, process, marine, oil & gas, military, aerospace, medical, or pharmaceutical.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with application, requisition, or field engineering in a combination of mid-tier programmable logic controllers (PLC) or top-tier DCS used in combination, instrumentation, data acquisition, control, monitoring, or automation.
• Minimum 1 years of experience in safety critical applications or regulated industry.
• Professional Engineer licensed in Canada

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, and monitoring with detailed knowledge in safety-related systems, hardware, software, theory of operation, equipment environmental, seismic qualification (EQ) testing and field services or plant start-ups.
• Experience using Instrumentation Application Engineering design tools on large plant projects to produce detailed design deliverables (e.g., Hexagon Smart Instrumentation (SPI) or similar tool to produce instrument lists, instrument data sheets, etc.).
• Experience in DCS, or PLC application, deployment and support engineering of complex, high reliability, signal acquisition, data processing, inter-networking, separation, safety hazards, reliability, simulation, cyber security requirements.
• Experience using industry standards for plant process instrumentation or controls (e.g. ISA, IEC, RegDocs, Reg Guides).
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, results oriented – Able to learn quickly and make reasoned, sound, and timely decisions.
• Effective communication, cross- discipline and functional facilitation, and influencing skills, both verbal and written with focus on requirements, design basis document and technical presentation preparation and delivery.
• Inclusive team player able to work successfully in matrix environment – Executing multiple assignments and priorities.
• Able and willing to take ownership and responsibility for work scoping, deliverables planning, prioritizing, scheduling, budgeting, action tracking, monitoring, corrective actions, reporting, etc.
• Self-starter with positive energy, bias for action, and proven track record of delivering on commitments and goals in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous improvement “mindset” with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process.

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.

This position requires access to and/or use of information subject to U.S. Export Control Laws, which mandate all citizenships (including dual citizenships) be from the U.S. Department of Energy’s List of Generally Authorized Countries (10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A, which includes Canada and can be found here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/chapter-III/part-810/appendix-Appendix%20A%20to%20Part%20810) unless a specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy is obtained or unless you are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or protected individual under the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)). More information can be found here: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/10-cfr-part-810.

You must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

Strong consideration will be given to Indigenous persons. The term Indigenous refers to individuals who identify as being descended from the original inhabitants (the first peoples) of what is now known as Canada. In this context, Indigenous people are First Nations, Métis and/or Inuit

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