Controls Systems Engineer

Nationwide

ID: 1875-356

Full-Time/Regular

Come join the Traylorfamily Sterling Industrial LLC., is currently looking for a Controls Systems Engineer.

Work Location: Phoenix, AZ

Sterling Industrial, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, was founded and incorporated in 1982. Our company began and grew from a need for swift, reliable service for utilities in southern Indiana. Meeting the needs of utilities through small emergencies, we found an increasing need to add pipefitters and millwrights to our operation, and from there our company continued to grow.

As a multi-craft union contractor, we provide civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical services for new construction and maintenance/retrofit projects. Our core markets include power generation, metals, pulp/paper, plastics, and chemical markets. We pride ourselves on being a full-service contractor attentive and responsive to the needs of our customers; providing a full range of services and solutions for construction and maintenance projects.

Our Core Values:

Safety.

People.

Innovation.

Ethics.

Communication.

Community.

Project Overview:

We are building high performing teams to deliver a complex EPC heavy civil project and looking for motivated, hands-on, collaborative innovators, doers, and problem solvers. The projects are hydro power generation with scopes including roadway development, significant structures including dams, spillways, tunnel waterways, inlet/outlet structures, hydromechanical equipment, mechanical and electrical systems, and site facilities and buildings. This is your opportunity to be part of history making projects.

Job Summary:

The Control Systems Senior Engineer is responsible for the engineering, coordination, and technical oversight of instrumentation and controls for the powerhouse and balance of plant systems. The role supports EPC execution through design development, interface management, constructability, and construction/commissioning support for a large hydropower facility comprising underground powerhouse, shafts, tunnels, intake/outlet works, and surface facilities, in accordance with customer requirements, applicable codes, and the project’s engineering procedures.

A key part of this role is collaboration with multiple stakeholders. The Control Systems Senior Engineer shall work with the team to establish regular meetings with design consultants and other external stakeholders as required and reporting cycles for managing, coordinating, and assuring the design.

Major Responsibilities:

• Review conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design for BOP systems
• This role will include working with the Design Subcontractor and discharging responsibilities as set out in the Management of Third-Party Engineering procedures.
• Develop and check control systems design criteria, instrument lists, DCS design, logic diagrams, control room layouts, specifications, data sheets, and material requisitions consistent with operational, reliability, and safety requirements.
• Coordinate control system designs with: Civil / Geotechnical, Mechanical, Electrical, Plant Design and Constructability
• Interface with OEMs (turbine generator supplier, auxiliary equipment vendors) for control system integration into powerhouse systems.
• Provide Construction & Commissioning Support during execution including response to RFIs, Field change evaluations etc.
• Support construction sequencing, installation constraints, and temporary power planning for underground works.
• Participate in testing, energization, and commissioning support, including review of test procedures, energization and turnover sequencing
• Support operations readiness and commissioning teams.
• Review and approve control system deliverables to ensure compliance with technical requirements, project specifications and design criteria, applicable ISA codes, IEEE and ASME standards
• Participate in design reviews, constructability reviews, safety in design workshops, and HAZID/HAZOP reviews, with focus on underground powerhouse risks.
• Coordinate and manage the review of Control System deliverables produced by design consultant, including schedules, reports, critical issues, risks and providing feedback to Engineering Ma