Senior Engineer, Instrumentation And Controls

Senior Engineer, Instrumentation and Control Systems

Job Description

This role involves engineering solutions for instrumentation and control systems within commercial nuclear power plants and test facilities. The focus will be on reactor protection safety-related systems, augmented quality, regulatory treatment of non-safety systems, and plant investment protection systems.

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, evaluate, introduce, and manage engineering solutions for instrumentation and control systems.
• Apply control theory, mathematical modeling, and simulation to design control systems with desired behaviors, including control logic functionality across modes of operation, setting boundaries, optimization, closed loop or feedback control algorithms, sensors, hardware, and software development.
• Prepare designs for reactor protection systems (e.g., neutron monitoring, reactor trip, emergency core cooling, engineered safety features, isolation functions).
• Prepare designs for augmented quality assurance systems (e.g., diverse actuation or protection, reactivity control rod, steam bypass, and pressure).
• Prepare designs for plant investment protection systems (e.g., anticipatory trip, feedwater level, reactor water cleanup, shutdown cooling, fuel and auxiliary pool cooling, leak detection and isolation).
• Prepare designs for non-safety-related balance of plant systems (e.g., service water, instrument air, AC or DC electric loads, diesel generators, HVAC).
• Perform, lead, or manage design and related technical scope through the progression of front-end engineering design, conceptual, preliminary or intermediate, and detailed or final design.
• Prepare and maintain documents, reports, specifications, databases, and diagrams using data-centric digital tools with rigorous requirements, change control, and configuration management.

Essential Skills

• Strong history of controls and nuclear experience.
• Experience in instrumentation and controls, nuclear, and systems engineering.
• Experience in design requirements, specification, PLC, DCS, IEC, and monitoring systems.
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent 4-year technical degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Computer Science or Technology, Software or Systems, Physics, Chemistry, or Mathematics.
• 10 years of experience in heavy industries such as nuclear, power, process, marine, oil & gas, military, aerospace, medical, or pharmaceutical.
• 10 years of experience preparing system design requirements, specifications, documentation, and detailed design artifacts using digital tools.
• 10 years of experience preparing diagrams using digital tools and developing physics-based algorithms for simulation and modeling.
• 10 years of experience using IEC Standards 60xxx, 61xxx, and 62xxx series.
• 10 years of experience with PC and productivity software (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Visio).
• 10 years of experience in design, application, requisition, or field engineering of safety significant instrumentation, control, and monitoring systems.
• 5 years of experience with application, requisition, or field engineering in programmable logic controllers (PLC) or top-tier DCS in complex, real-time operating systems.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) nuclear control systems and design implementation.

Work Environment

This position offers a fully remote work environment. There is no travel expected, although infrequent meetings or workshops may occur in Wilmington, NC.

This is a Contract position based out of Wilmington, NC.

The pay range for this position is $90.00 - $109.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Mar 25, 2026.

About Actalent

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The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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Salary : $90 - $109