Lead Instrumentation & Controls Engineer 1 - Nuclear
$118,023–$180,313 year
HybridAtlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Develop and market high-level, complex programs for nuclear power projects covering design, operational excellence, safety, and maintenance. Direct technical decision-making for digital upgrades in new and existing power plant controls systems, including PLC, DCS, and networked computer architectures. Investigate, troubleshoot, and solve instrumentation and controls engineering issues while coordinating system design to ensure compliance with specifications and codes. Prepare functional requirements, quality assessments, and detailed calculations for analog and digital controls applications. Review vendor equipment specifications, prepare drawing production documentation, and conduct independent reviews of calculations and drawings. Attend client meetings and site walkdowns to validate scope and support station outage activities as required.
Required Qualifications
- A BS degree in engineering from an ABET accredited program
- 10 or more years of experience in the design engineering of instrumentation and controls engineering systems in a project team environment for heavy industrial plants, with a focus on integrated, detailed system design for new plants or replacements for existing plants
- Experience in providing technical support to nuclear plant projects - from design engineering, project planning, providing technical expertise associated with testing and operations, contract specifications, project oversight, successful project execution, and overall direction of complex nuclear projects
- Technically knowledgeable of available equipment and proven pre-engineered systems to execute systems design
- Experience in reviewing design drawings created by others
- Must be able to lead others who use modern tools
- You are expected to lead others in taking engineering problems from issue to solution by setting expectations for using data and modern tools such as automation and AI to improve workflows, reduce rework, and deliver cost-effective designs
- Leaders in these roles often direct automation and process-improvement work, for example, how teams automate calculations, summarize technical documents, or generate design documentation and guiding when and how AI or agentic AI tools are used while ensuring results are checked
- Overseeing engineers who program or script (e.g., Python, MATLAB, advanced Excel) to automate engineering tasks, with review of automated outputs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in serving as firm/client liaison in a support or lead engineering role is desirable
- PE license
- AI & Automation at Sargent & Lundy
- We also value additional learning, such as a minor, certificate, or other experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields that enables effective oversight of automation and agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows
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