Senior Instrumentation & Controls Engineer- Water

Senior Instrumentation & Controls Engineer
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Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.

Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Opportunity

Stantec is one of the top engineering and consulting firms supporting the Water Industry, and we are looking for you to join our team. We are currently seeking a Senior-level Instrumentation and Controls Engineer with strong interest in being part of a purpose-driven organization that is focused on helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive.

Our team is regularly tasked with some of the most interesting projects in North America, including PLC/SCADA or DCS deployments up to 250,000 IO and controlling up to a billion litres/day of liquid treatment. We regularly design for and support the latest technologies including Thermal Hydrolysis, and Combined Heat and Power applications, and have a focus on growing our analytics team which are changing the way we approach water treatment.

We have many projects for you to work on, both here at home and abroad. As a global organization, we have the senior resources to support your career growth as well as tasking you with the challenging projects that involve working as a team to create some of the most innovative designs in the industry.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

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Key Responsibilities
A successful applicant will work with a multidisciplinary group of engineers and designers providing technical services to public and private-sector clients. Primary duties will include control systems engineering, process control strategy planning, automation designs, construction support services, and planning studies with detailed analyses. These designs will be related to water and wastewater treatment plants and related facilities.

Experience with equipment selections, equipment and communication network layouts, and process control design coordination with other engineering disciplines is required. Candidates should be at ease with core aspects of PLC, HMI and SCADA system planning, design, programming, and upgrades.

Design Activities, Including

Developing preliminary scope definitions, budgets, and staffing plans

Field review and evaluation of existing equipment, control systems (hardware and software) and control panels

Preparing studies, conceptual reports, and technical memorandums

Conducting I&C engineering and analyses related to various water, wastewater, and industrial waste treatment facilities

Supporting multi-disciplinary teams with engineering design projects and studies

Developing construction documents (drawings, specifications, and schedules). Drawings for construction include:
Database driven Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&'s)

Detailed network communication architecture diagrams

Control panel details

CCTV and Access Control System drawings, Point-to-Point Wiring Diagrams, and instrument installation details

Development of technical specifications, instrument datasheets, and detailed control strategies / narratives

Senior review and evaluation of electrical schematic diagrams and plans

Review and evaluation of mechanical specifications with controls content

Review and evaluation of process flow diagrams and design criteria; and

Coordination of I&C deliverables with the process, mechanical, and electrical disciplines

Construction Support Activities

Review of Contractor and Supplier submittals

Participate in construction site inspections

Support of equipment and control system commissioning, start‑up, and…