Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer (Direct Hire)
Janesville, WI
Job Requisition: 7284
Description for Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer:
This Sr Engineer will assist with the design, development, procurement, construction, installation, and testing of systems used to control and monitor processes for new medical isotope production facility.
The Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer works as part of a collaborative team that oversees the design of the control systems and selects instruments and equipment for this newer facility.
Responsibilities for Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer:
- Mentor engineers in the technology, decision making, and ownership of the I&C equipment that they are responsible for.
- Lead the interfaces between stakeholders and the I&C team.
- Provide input on the schedule tasks for length and effort required to create design products.
- Drive decisions on vendor requests, changes, and updates to equipment and programming.
- Become the responsible engineer for a subset of the I&C equipment, guiding it through the design, procurement and construction process while ensuring it meets design requirements.
- Oversee the development of digital and analog control systems, including distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and data acquisition systems (DAQ), by performing reviews of vendor deliverables.
- Work collaboratively with other engineering disciplines to select instruments to measure process variables in the process systems in the facility.
- Provide an interface with the Auxiliary Systems Group to coordinate the power distribution to I&C equipment.
- Prepare instrument specifications, calculations, and test plans to support the design, new construction, testing, commissioning, in-field troubleshooting and operation of the future medical isotope production facility.
- Design and implement instrument cable routing, conduit and raceway design, installation drawings, and loop diagrams.
Requirements for Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, nuclear engineering or related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in relevant I&C engineering roles. Position level based upon years of relevant experience.
- Knowledge of I&C systems, hardware, software, theory of operation, environmental equipment, seismic qualification (EQ) testing and plant start-ups
- Finalization of specifications and design documents for vendor implementation on the plant control system and safety related systems
- Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, and monitoring.
- Understanding of appropriate cable shielding, type, radiation tolerance, and separation by safety train.
- Ability to think strategically and take decisive action once the necessary information has been gathered.
- Ability to critically evaluate information and the boldness to ask questions when things don’t make sense.
Nice-to-haves for Senior I&C/Electrical Engineer:
- Knowledge of nuclear safety related systems desired but not required (NQA-1).
- Development of requirements for plant control system programming using Allen Bradley hardware
- PLC and SCADA HMI development and creation of PLC I/O design documents
- Cable routing and management
- HMI programming
- Design of FPGA platform for safety related actuations (with vendors)
