Lead Engineer – Instrumentation & Controls, Gas Power Generation

🕒 September 18

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $121.7k - $176.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1908

🏗️ Construction

⚡ Energy

Construction • Energy • Renewable Energy

Blattner is a leading utility-scale engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company focusing on renewable energy and energy storage. With significant experience in building wind, solar, and storage projects, Blattner is committed to driving the transformation towards a cleaner and more sustainable world. The company has constructed 25% of the U. S. utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage capacity, solidifying its role in powering America to a clean energy future. Blattner prioritizes safety and quality, ensuring their projects are executed without compromise. They also offer comprehensive career opportunities, promoting a culture of collaboration and success.

📋 Description

• Serve as subject matter expert for instrumentation and controls design for gas plants, reciprocating engines, gas turbines, and associated balance of plant systems and equipment • Develop and review instrumentation and controls designs and design controls for balance of plant systems • Collaborate with OEMs, owners, internal project teams, utilities, vendors, and third-party engineering firms • Develop metrics and objectives related to equipment protection and controls engineering obligations • Understand client design criteria, intent, design trends, philosophy, and gas generation plant criteria • Travel to client offices and project sites as required; travel increases during construction and commissioning • Support root cause analysis for engineering and instrumentation and controls items • Verify equipment controls and protection, safety standards, Management of Change, and compliance with industry standards • Verify design basis for power block instrumentation and controls through commissioning processes and documentation • Integrate instrumentation and controls with electrical design and commissioning business units • Review electrical interface designs for balance of plant equipment and plant control system integration • Evaluate new technologies and best practices to add project value • Create and maintain design basis document libraries • Review owner, contractor, company, supplier, and subcontract scopes for completeness and interface gaps • Support constructability reviews of power block layouts, modular and skid-mounted equipment, and cable/conduit systems • Support onsite startup, first fire, synchronization, performance testing, and commissioning requirements • Act as escalation point for instrumentation and controls commissioning issues • Review design, installation, commissioning, redundancy, winterization, loop diagrams, control narratives, and logic • Own controller communication protocols and interface implementation, including DCS and OEM controllers • Verify data historian configuration and available data points • Mentor junior engineers and support internal instrumentation and controls standards and practices • Develop instrumentation and controls plans for proposals incorporating redundancy, reliability, and cost efficiency • Provide technical support throughout the project lifecycle and review contract and subcontract implications • Travel up to 25% pre-construction and 70% during construction, subject to project needs

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience in instrumentation and controls design for industrial projects, with strong preference for power generation • 5+ years experience with instrumentation/controls/communications specification, procurement, install, and commissioning • Bachelor's degree in engineering, or related field, from an ABET-accredited college required, or relevant equivalent industry experience • Professional Engineering (PE) license is preferred but not required • Knowledge of reciprocating engine and gas turbine equipment and associated balance of plant equipment and applications • Knowledge of MODBUS, Profi-Bus, Foundation Field-Bus, and other communication protocols and integration • Familiarity with instrumentation and controls programming and commissioning tools for BOP equipment • Familiarity with Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) • Familiarity with Emissions Control Systems, primarily Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) • Familiarity with engineering standards/best practices related to power generation • Ability to influence and persuade groups toward common objectives • Effective oral, written, listening, and presentation communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay • 100% employer paid HDHP insurance premiums for employees • 401(k) with company match • HSA and FSA options • Dental and Vision insurance • Education Assistance (Tuition Reimbursement) • Work/Life balance • Employee/Family focused culture • Gym on site

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