Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer - Mission Critical

Senior-Level Controls & Instrumentation Engineer

This position can be performed in either of our Tullahoma, TN or Farmington Hills, MI offices.

Join our team turning abstract ideas into realities. Collaborate with industry experts to develop solutions to mission‑critical challenges, such as NASA’s return to the moon, the DoD’s national security initiatives, international automotive manufacturers’ development of fuel‑efficient and electric vehicles, and the DoE’s energy research. We tackle challenges in emerging technologies, cyber, intelligence, space exploration, energy transformation, and resiliency to ensure national security.

As the world’s thinkers, visionaries, and doers, we disrupt the status quo and affect real, meaningful change in how we provide solutions to our customers, operate our business, and support communities.

Advanced Solutions specializes in the design, construction, and operation of unique and complex research and development facilities, including, as examples, wind tunnels (aerospace, automotive, and motorsports), rocket test stands, climatic chambers, jet engine test cells, acoustic chambers, altitude test facilities, captive trajectory systems, and nuclear facilities. Our projects span the automotive, motorsports, defense, nuclear, and aerospace markets. Recent clients include Audi, Boeing, BMW, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Honda, General Motors, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, Volkswagen, confidential F1 motorsports clients, and many others in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Advance Solutions is looking for a Senior‑Level Controls & Instrumentation Engineer to support projects ranging from small studies to multi‑million dollar turn‑key supply. A successful candidate must be team‑oriented, organized, able to communicate to all levels of the organization, and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.

• Lead teams in developing hardware assembly and wiring diagrams for control and data acquisition systems.
• Lead development of control system software designs that include control of temperature, pressure, humidity, flow, force, motion of mechanisms, system safety, human safety, and other advanced process and electromechanical systems.
• Develop control system software in PLC ladder logic, function block, HMI programming, etc.
• Develop interfaces to facility equipment using hardwired interfaces and industrial networks.
• Apply closed loop controls methods, both classical and modern, to control continuously variable systems.
• Provide quality system processes such as checking the work of others, following standard procedures, and ensuring compliance to codes and standards.
• Provide on‑site team direction of facility startup, checkout, and commissioning activities, both domestically and abroad.
• Coordinate with other engineering disciplines and departments to ensure success.
• Plan labor resources and scheduling project milestones to ensure project completion within technical scope, budget, and client schedule.
• Develop proposals to capture future work with current clients and new markets.
• Lead control and data acquisition projects through all phases to include design, fabrication, implementation, testing and commissioning.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers on engineering and business development processes.

• A Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering or similar from an ABET accredited engineering program.
• 8‑15+ years of experience in control or data acquisition system design, implementation, and commissioning.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer in good standing is a plus.
• Experience in a lead engineer role, managing resources to a schedule and budget, coordinating with other disciplines, estimating labor requirements for new and existing projects.
• Experienced PLC and HMI software developer in one of the major environments (for instance, Rockwell Software Studio 5000, SIEMENS TIA Portal, Emerson PC ME) with a working knowledge of the other environments. Working knowledge of Plant
  
  PAx is a plus.
• Experience selecting, specifying, and procuring process instrumentation and actuation…