Controls Engineer IV--Job ID: 4096

RISINGSUN TECHNOLOGIES; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

RISINGSUN TECHNOLOGIES is seeking a Senior Controls Engineer IV to design instrumentation and control systems for advanced nuclear facilities. Remote work with flexible hours; 40 hours per week and a 12-month contract. Core hours EST 9:00–16:00.

Candidate must be willing to work on W2 due to site/export controls and provide a phone contact for calls during business hours. Responsibilities include developing control logic, safety features, and plant I&C equipment layouts, following IEC standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Software, or Systems Engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years in regulated industries or nuclear/power environments.
• Extensive experience with system requirements, design artifacts, and detailed design.
• Experience applying IEC 60xxx, 61xxx, 62xxx standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop, evaluate, and manage engineering solutions for plant I&C systems.
• Apply control theory, modeling, and simulation to develop control logic and hardware/software requirements.
• Design reactor protection, emergency core cooling, and related safety features.
• Lead FEED through detailed design phases and procurement packages.
• Prepare specifications, set points, and load data; maintain configuration management.
• Create wiring diagrams, schematics, and network diagrams; run simulations.
• Collaborate across disciplines to meet safety, reliability, and performance goals.
• Oversee supplier qualification, testing, and implementation.
• Mentor team members and ensure schedule and budget alignment.

Skills

System requirements

Detailed design artifacts

Engineering diagrams

IEC standards 60xxx/61xxx/62xxx

PC tools (Word/Excel/Project/Visio)

PLC/DCS platforms

Safety-significant I&C knowledge

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Engineering calculations & simulations

FMEA & risk analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Software, or Systems Engineering

Tools

Mark VIe/ControlST

CommonQ

Ovation

DeltaV

Foxboro I/A

Triconex TRICON

System7

TelepermXP

Confluence

IBM ELM

Visio

AutoCAD

MATLAB/Simulink

Mathcad

3KeyMaster

ENOVIA

ReliaSoft

Job description

Job 228:Controls Engineer IV--Job ID: 4096

Due to nuclear site access/or export-controlled project requirements, this role requires Candidates must also be willing to work on W2.

Location: Remote

Working Hours: Flexible, with core hours of 9:00 AM–4:00 PM EST

Travel: None

Availability: Candidates must provide a phone number and be available for calls during working hours.

Bill Rate: $110/hr

Contract Duration: Approximately 12 Months (Possible extension)

Hours: 40 hours/week

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for advanced commercial nuclear power plants and test facilities. The scope includes reactor protection, safety-related systems, augmented-quality systems, plant investment protection, and non-safety-related balance-of-plant systems across advanced light water, liquid metal, and high-temperature gas reactors.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, evaluate, and manage engineering solutions for plant I&C systems.
• Apply control theory, mathematical modeling, and simulation to develop control logic, operating boundaries, feedback algorithms, and hardware/software requirements.
• Design reactor protection, emergency core cooling, engineered safety features, neutron monitoring, reactivity control, feedwater, cooling, isolation, and supporting plant systems.
• Lead or support engineering activities from front-end engineering design through conceptual, preliminary, and final detailed design.
• Prepare specifications, requirements, reports, databases, equipment lists, set points, load data, and physical equipment layouts.
• Develop functional block diagrams, flow diagrams, ladder logic, wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, communication/network diagrams, and simulation models.
• Maintain rigorous requirements management, change control, and configuration management.
• Select appropriate I&C hardware and software platforms.
• Collaborate across disciplines to meet functional, performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability goals using FMEA, probabilistic risk analysis, and related methods.
• Prepare procurement packages and oversee suppliers’ implementation, qualification, testing, and compliance activities.
• Develop and review unit, module, system, integration, and factory acceptance testing for distributed control systems.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering partners, construction teams, and suppliers.
• Mentor team members and deliver work that meets technical requirements, budget, schedule, and nuclear safety and quality expectations.

Must-Have Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Software, or Systems Engineering; Computer Science/Technology; Physics; Chemistry; Mathematics; or an equivalent four-year technical degree.
• 10 years of experience in heavy or highly regulated industries such as nuclear, power, process, marine, oil and gas, military, aerospace, medical, or pharmaceutical.
• 10 years of experience developing system requirements, specifications, documentation, and detailed design artifacts using digital tools.
• 10 years of experience developing engineering diagrams, physics-based algorithms, simulations, and models.
• 10 years of experience applying IEC standards in the 60xxx, 61xxx, and 62xxx series.
• 10 years of experience using PC productivity tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, and Visio.
• 10 years of experience in the design, application, requisition, or field engineering of safety-significant instrumentation, control, and monitoring systems.
• 5 years of experience in application, requisition, or field engineering involving PLC and/or DCS platforms for complex, real-time, software-intensive systems.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications & Skills

• Professional Engineer credentials in Control Systems or an Ontario P.Eng. license.
• PMP certification or MBA.
• Nuclear analog and digital I&C experience, including safety-related hardware/software, instrument set points, calibration, environmental and seismic qualification, field services, or plant start-ups.
• Experience with nuclear regulatory requirements, design certification, and licensing under US NRC or international frameworks.
• Experience with redundant, high-reliability PLC/DCS architectures, signal acquisition, data processing, networking, human factors, safety hazards, and cybersecurity.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Mark VIe/ControlST, CommonQ, Ovation, DeltaV, Foxboro I/A, Triconex TRICON, System7, or TelepermXP.
• Experience with Confluence, IBM ELM, Visio, AutoCAD, Easy5, MATLAB/Simulink, Mathcad, 3KeyMaster, or ENOVIA.
• Working knowledge of FMEA and reliability analysis software such as ReliaSoft.
• Strong technical writing, communication, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments, own project planning and execution, and drive continuous improvement.