Senior Control Systems Engineer - Bechtel Corporation

# Requisition ID: _254847_ # Requisition Posting End Date: **Project Overview:** Bechtel is a global engineering, construction and project management company that has "built the world" for more than 120 years, having constructed Hoover Dam, the English Channel Tunnel, entire cities in the Middle East, the second-largest solar thermal power project in the world, and millions of miles of roads and pipelines. We produce a lasting, positive legacy by creating jobs, growing economies, connecting communities to resources, shoring up and expanding infrastructure, and making the world a cleaner, greener, safer place. Join us as we make history at the Hanford Vit Plant, known as the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. We are designing and building a one-of-a-kind facility that will turn radioactive and chemical waste left over from World War II and Cold War plutonium production into a form safe for disposal. Your efforts will help protect the nearby Columbia River and the communities, salmon, and wildlife along its shorelines throughout the Northwest. Sitting at the confluence of the Columbia, Snake and Yakima rivers near two mountain ranges, our community provides access to year-round outdoor recreation, 300 days of sun a year, more than 200 wineries within a 50-mile radius, and the amenities of large cities just a three-hour drive (or short flight) to Seattle and Portland. # Responsibilities: + Reviews and prepares higher tier engineering documents and drawings related to the Control Systems engineering discipline. + Properly interprets and applies codes & standards and customer design requirements in the preparation of Control Systems design products. + Activities may include the following (but are not limited to): coordination with other engineering disciplines, review project design criteria, vendor drawings/manuals, Piping & Instrument Diagrams (P & IDs) and Mechanical System Descriptions to determine control and instrumentation functional requirements, selection of instrumentation in conjunction with process and mechanical requirements, prepare Digital Logic Diagrams and Functional Block Diagrams, basic industrial control system programming, prepare Document Change Notices, markup the P&IDs to add control functionality for intermediate/advanced process control systems. + Coordinates technical issues with Startup & Commissioning and provides assistance to Construction in the field. + Contributes to maintaining the project's instrument database using automated tools and has knowledge of the applicability of information to be populated in the instrument database. + Achieves work process improvement and promotes continuous work process improvement. + Champions non-proprietary electronic data interchange and integrate automation technology where ever practical. + Specifes instrumentation and control valves, and generates associated data sheets and material requisitions. + Designs and applies tubing and instrument installation details. + Allocates facility control system I/O. + Designs and reviews control cabinet layouts, including allocated I/O modules. + Design and review of control room layouts, with consideration of human factors. + Design and review control system network architecture. + Demonstrate leadership qualities with emphasis on continuous improvement and team building, and interpersonal communication skills. + Provide technical assistance to more junior engineers/designers/drafters. # Qualifications and Skills **Basic Qualifications:** + **Level 1:** BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering or equivalent degree plus a minimum of 6 years of related professional design experience; or in lieu of a degree, 12 years of progressive related professional design experience. + **Level 1** : BS degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Chemical Engineering or equivalent degree plus a minimum of 9 years of related professional design experience; or in lieu of a degree, 15 years of progressive related professional design experience. + Must have 6 years of experience developing, checking and reviewing Control Systems Engineering documentation for detail design. + Hands on Microsoft Office programs and other computer programs. # Minimum Qualifications: + Familiar with design of nuclear facilities. + Familiar with process control system software development. + Excellent written and oral communication abilities along with effective presentation skills. + Working knowledge of VISIO CADD and/or PDS 2D. + Skilled in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Access and PowerPoint. + Knowledge of Control Systems Engineering work processes, procedures, specifications. + Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, physical (if located at the construction site), and background check which includes verification of employment and education. + Must be able to obtain a Department of Energy badge for access to the Hanford Site. + Basic Industrial Control Systems programming skills. + Familiar with or course work using industry wide Control Systems system calculation/design tools, such as instrument set-point calculation software, CAD 2d and loop designing software. + Knowledge of data acquisition techniques and hardware. # Preferred Qualifications: + Experience with Software Quality Assurance and Configuration Management. + Previous Bechtel and/or DOD or DOE project experience. + Prior work experience with cost variance analysis. + Ability to make calculations and perform analyses in support of design engineering, material quantity take-off and statistical data. + Current PE Registration. + Candidates possess the right to work and remain in the US without sponsorship. + Extensive knowledge of Codes and Standards pertinent to Control Systems engineering. **_Shaping tomorrow together_** **_Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we've completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Energy; and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live._** **_www.bechtel.com_** **_Bechtel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, disability, citizenship status (except as authorized by law), protected veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law._** **_In accordance with Bechtel's duty to provide and maintain a safe workplace for our employees and to safeguard the health of our families, customers, and visitors, we have adopted mandatory COVID-19 safety protocols for each work location, which may include a vaccination or testing requirement. Please speak with your Bechtel recruiter to determine which protocols apply to the work location for the job you are seeking._**