Controls Engineer

🕒 October 23

🐎 Kentucky, Washington – Remote

🐎 Kentucky – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Boston Government Services, LLC (BGS) is a company that provides engineering, technology, and cybersecurity solutions primarily for the federal government and the energy sector. Located in Oak Ridge, TN, BGS offers a range of services including environmental management, nuclear operations, renewable energy, and compliance with cybersecurity standards such as CMMC. The firm prides itself on delivering high-value solutions to complex and highly regulated environments.

📋 Description

• Develop, review, integrate, and support instrumentation and control systems for existing nuclear facility infrastructure and new construction projects • Focus on legacy balance-of-plant systems and electromechanical equipment • Evaluate and select controllers, instrumentation, control panels, and interface components • Apply technical references, applicable codes, site engineering standards, and nuclear facility quality and configuration management requirements • Develop, configure, review, and troubleshoot PLC logic using Allen-Bradley or Siemens platforms • Develop equipment sequences, permissives, interlocks, and alarms • Develop technical specifications for control systems, instrumentation, control panels, and interfaces • Prepare control narratives, sequences of operation, I/O lists, and design documentation • Develop and review control schematics, loop diagrams, wiring and termination drawings, panel layouts, and equipment interface details • Review designs for constructability and coordinate controls installation and integration with electrical, mechanical, process, and construction personnel • Evaluate compatibility between new controls and legacy balance-of-plant systems • Incorporate operability and maintainability into controls designs • Develop test procedures and support functional testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting with site personnel • Evaluate existing control system configurations and equipment conditions using drawings, field data, and coordination with site personnel and subject matter experts • Identify integration constraints and modernization needs • Perform design recovery by reconciling existing installations, control logic, and equipment interfaces with available records • Reconstruct or update controls documentation to reflect verified field conditions • Support clients in Hanford, Washington and Portsmouth, Kentucky

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering with a controls and instrumentation background • At least 10 years of controls engineering experience • At least 5 years of experience in the nuclear field • Hands-on experience with Allen-Bradley or Siemens PLC platforms, including programming, configuration, troubleshooting, and integration • Ability to evaluate, troubleshoot, and integrate legacy balance-of-plant control systems and electromechanical equipment • Experience with relay-based controls, motor starters, actuators, and instrumentation • Must be a U.S. citizen • Successful drug screening • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security or clearance badge • Requires a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Q security clearance; qualified candidates considered regardless of current clearance status • Preferred: Experience modernizing legacy controls while maintaining compatibility with existing balance-of-plant equipment • Preferred: Familiarity with CAD tools for control schematics and panel layouts, specifically AutoCAD Electrical • Preferred: Familiarity with HMI or SCADA configuration software • Preferred: Active Q Clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Life Insurance • Paid Vacation • 401K • Long-Term Disability • Short-Term Disability • Competitive total compensation package • Fully remote work arrangement • Monday–Friday, 8-hour days (5/8 schedule) • No travel required

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