Job Description
Overview
AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Specialist Instrumentation, Control & Electrical Engineer to join the Retube Tooling & Field Services Department. The successful candidate will serve as a recognized technical specialist, providing authoritative engineering direction for complex instrumentation, automation, control, and electrical systems used in nuclear retube tooling, refurbishment, maintenance, and field-service projects.
The role combines advanced technical expertise with accountability for major engineering work packages, including technical scope, cost, schedule, interfaces, quality, and delivery.
Your role
- Act as a technical authority for complex instrumentation, control, automation, and electrical systems.
- Lead the design, integration, qualification, testing, commissioning, and field deployment of specialized nuclear tooling.
- Take responsibility for major engineering work packages, including scope, technical content, cost, schedule, risk, and delivery.
- Establish technical direction and resolve complex engineering and system-integration issues.
- Develop, review, and approve requirements, designs, specifications, drawings, test procedures, commissioning plans, and technical reports.
- Lead PLC, HMI, SCADA, LabVIEW, motion‑control, industrial‑network, and data‑acquisition applications.
- Provide technical oversight for FAT, DVT, Code Conversion Testing, equipment qualification, commissioning, and field execution.
- Lead root‑cause investigations and corrective actions for complex technical issues.
- Serve as a key technical interface with clients, vendors, manufacturing teams, project personnel, and field organizations.
- Support proposals, estimates, schedules, execution strategies, engineering standards, and operational planning.
- Mentor engineers and technical employees while promoting technical excellence and knowledge transfer.
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, cybersecurity, configuration‑management, regulatory, and engineering‑governance requirements.
About you
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls, Instrumentation, Software, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- P.Eng. designation or eligibility for registration with Professional Engineers Ontario is highly desirable.
- Recognized technical expertise and credibility within a specialized engineering discipline.
- Advanced experience developing and integrating HMI and SCADA solutions using WinCC or comparable industrial platforms.
- Strong experience with LabVIEW, National Instruments hardware, automated testing, instrumentation, and data‑acquisition systems.
- Extensive experience with instrumentation, sensors, measurement technologies, signal conditioning, equipment interfaces, and calibration principles.
- Experience with cybersecurity, configuration management, engineering change control, and lifecycle management for industrial control systems.
- Advanced experience with Siemens PLCs, TIA Portal, Step 7, Safety PLCs, WinCC, industrial networks, PROFIBUS, and PROFINET.
- Strong experience with LabVIEW, National Instruments hardware, DAQ systems, instrumentation, and automated testing.
- Experience supporting nuclear projects, CANDU refurbishment, retube tooling, remote handling, robotics, inspection systems, or field services is highly desirable.
- Extensive progressive experience in instrumentation, controls, automation, electrical engineering, or complex industrial systems.
- Expert‑level knowledge of Siemens PLC and automation platforms, including TIA Portal, Step 7, S7‑SCL, Safety PLCs, SIMATIC NET, industrial TCP/IP, RTU systems, PROFIBUS, and PROFINET.
- Advanced knowledge of motion‑control technologies, including servo systems, VFDs, motors, encoders, positioning systems, and coordinated‑motion applications.
- Strong knowledge of electrical system architecture, control‑panel development, industrial networks, machine controls, and system integration.
- Demonstrated expertise in engineering verification, validation, equipment qualification, commissioning, and complex troubleshooting.
- Expertise related to CANDU refurbishment, retube tooling, remote handling, robotic systems, inspection equipment, or nuclear field services is highly desirable.
- Expertise in motion control, electrical system architecture, control panels, system integration, verification, validation, and commissioning.
- The technical foundation is drawn from the PG4 posting, which covers Siemens automation, WinCC, LabVIEW, DAQ, motion control, electrical design, industrial networks, verification, validation, engineering drawings, and complex troubleshooting.
- Demonstrated technical achievements at the senior‑engineer level and recognized expertise in a specialized engineering area.
- Strong technical leadership, mentoring, negotiation, and influencing capabilities.
- Exceptional engineering judgment, analytical ability, and complex problem‑solving skills.
- Commitment to nuclear safety, quality, regulatory compliance, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.