Job Description

JOB TITLE: PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

DUTIES

• Define scope of technical programs and develop effective, quality solutions to challenges which involve
• unique or controversial problems. Creatively meet all company and industry requirements and apply site
• systems to achieve quality, timely and cost-effective results. Give quality guidance and assistance to less
• senior professionals on related tasks.
• Apply technical experience in field of specialization or broad-based experience in multiple technical
• fields, to resolve complex problems.
• Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated
• technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or
• oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.
• Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and be recognized as having expertise
• in a functional area(s) of technical expertise.
• Provide direction and position responsibility both inside and outside department lines on programs
• seeking new approaches to problems and new application of existing engineering or scientific principles.
• Evaluate the results of programs and prepares reports and recommendations based on these
• evaluations.
• Identify and recommend improvements where established technology components and methodology
• are inadequate for solution.
• Keep informed of the advancement of technology as applied through one's area of technology.
• Prepare plans including schedules, budgets and personnel requirements for solving technical tasks
• identified by management.
• Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work
• performed.
• Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work
• performed.
• Communicate results and objectives verbally and in manuscripts form to customers colleagues and
• management.
• Occasionally prepare reports for external publication.
• Enhance expertise in field through leadership in local technical societies.
• Demonstrate creative ability through medium of patent disclosures, problem solving, engineering
• reports, technical papers and articles.

Education:

• Ph.D. degree in applicable science or engineering discipline and 5+ years’ experience. OR A
• MS with 8+ years’ experience. OR A BS with 10+ years’ experience or more.

Additional Duties

• Provide design engineering staff augmentation support to client.
• Primary responsibilities include engineering analysis, walkdowns, design
• development and generation of design output documents including but not limited
• to: P&IDs; Control Logics; Loop Diagrams; Instrument Indices; Setpoint Lists;
• Instrument and Control Valve Specifications; DCS and PLC Design; Instrument
• Location and Installation Design; Panel Layouts; and Vendor Document Review.
• Engineering services shall be provided using client processes and procedures.

Additional Education

• BS Degree in one of the following disciplines: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical
• Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, I&C Engineering, or
• current registration as a Professional Engineer in one of the above disciplines.

Additional Experience Qualifications

The following experience/skills are required for this position:

• Candidate must demonstrate ten (10) years of direct I&C design experience
• (within the last 15 years) in the nuclear or process chemical industry.
• Candidate must demonstrate design experience with process control
• instrumentation, PLCs and distributed control systems.
• Proficiency in using MicroStation 2D Computer Aided Drafting and Design
• (CADD) software is required.
• Candidate must be able to perform weekly field walk downs of the job site for the
• engineering work being performed. These walk downs may involve construction
• sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances of over half a
• mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, and dressing out in protective
• clothing.
• Area Security Access: Clearance “Q”