Job Description

This Opportunity

WSP is seeking an energetic and responsive Senior Lead Control System Engineer to join our multidisciplinary Process Infrastructure and Design team on a full time basis in Phoenix, Arizona. The following locations will also be considered: Salt Lake City, UT; Lakewood, CO or Houston, TX. The team you will join will offer interesting diversity of global clients and projects in Environmental Infrastructure facilities such as industrial facilities, water and wastewater industries, landfills and contaminated soil sites, as well as, Oil & Gas, surface and underground mining infrastructure including dewatering, material handling, fuel and lube, maintenance shops, and pumping stations.

Our ideal candidate is self-motivated, with excellent proactive communication skills, possessing a skill set for electrical & Controls infrastructure design, Owner Engineer and project delivery. The Senior Lead Control System Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing electrical control systems, MCC, PLC, Drives often within a specific heavy industry like infrastructure, manufacturing, mining and metals.

Are you looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself, make an impact with an established engineering consulting firm that values its employee’s enthusiasm, provide technical contributions, and a great culture to allow for growth in your career? We encourage you to apply for this opportunity.

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, Lakewood Colorado, Houston TX. Phoenix, AZ office is preferred.

Your Impact

• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with good leadership abilities and communicate effectively with both direct reports and the service leader.
• You will support the team’s workload, resource planning.
• Develop and perform quality reviews for detailed engineering documents and technical specifications.
• Engineer-of-Record for projects and/or project components of varying degrees of complexity.
• Lead or Design for LV MCC and VFD including but not limited to electrical calculations, equipment data sheets, electrical specifications, control panel, motor schematics, single line diagrams, interconnection diagram and layout drawings
• Prepare and review control deliverables such as Control Narratives, Cause and Effect diagrams, System Architecture Diagrams, PLC/DCS Layouts, and IO wiring
• PLC/DCS and HMI Programming, testing, and debugging experience
• SCADA and Control system network design
• Prepare drawing, engineering and bid packages for the contractor and the client.
• Provides guidance, training and mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers, designers, and drafters.
• Conducts quality assurance and implements quality control on projects across the service line
• Lead and supervise multiple technical projects.
• Develop a client base for providing high level electrical engineering services including identifying additional business development opportunities.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholder including cross-discipline, construction, vendors and owners to address electrical and controls design concepts, issues or concerns.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are
Required Qualifications

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree Engineering with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering
• Licensed Professional Engineer
• 10+ years of experience in MV/LV MCC and VFD and PLCs
• Experience with SCADA systems.
• Experience with digital communications and fieldbus technologies.
• Strong understanding of PLC (Rockwell Control Logix) hardware and software or DCS (Siemens PCS 7, Delta-V)
• Experience with mining, oil and gas, water treatment, and other EPCM projects with a minimum of ten years of successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• Requisite knowledge, interpretation, and application of industry standards and best practices including NEC, IEEE, and others.
• Work independently and collaborate in cross-discipline team to meet project goals.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills and the ability to work within a team.
• Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing intricate ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Strong self-leadership and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, regulators, project managers, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Works independently to provide guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Strong planning, organization, and execution skills
• Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
• Highly proficient with making technical computations and calculations involving the application of engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.
• Ability to assertively direct others in the field such as subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
• Ability and willingness to occasionally travel to project sites. Approximately 10% overnight travel.
• Must pass background check.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation:
Expected Salary ( Colorado only): $115,100 - $192,390

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.