Instrumentation & Control (I&C) Discipline Lead - Industrial Water

Instrumentation & Control (I&C) Discipline Lead - Industrial Water - ( 210002C3 )

Description

Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations. By 2025 we’re hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.

Your Oppportunity:

Are you ready to grow? We are looking for an Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Discipline Lead, to support our growth within the Industrial Water Sector at Stantec

Discipline Leaders hold a unique position in our water group, their role is to guide our engineering disciplines in the advancement of skills, innovation, and quality as it relates to the delivery of our work. They facilitate our communities of global and national level engineering discipline leads ensuring workflows leverage the right level of expertise and always mitigate risk. The management and governance of engineering technical data and standards is at the core of the role, always fostering a culture of quality.

The Industrial I&C discipline leader oversees industrial instrumentation, controls and automation engineering and associated services. For the Industrial Water Sector. The Discipline seeks to intelligently utilize natural processes to solve complex problems facing the communities we serve.

The Industrial I&C discipline supports the Industrial Water Sector (practice and delivery) by providing technical leadership and specialized project delivery services related to the evaluation, planning, design, construction and management of I&C systems, including:

• Automation component specification,
• Programmable Logic/Automation Controller and Distributed Control System design,
• Experience with major DCS’s, Ovation, ABB, Foxboro, Etc
• Communications and network planning and specification,
• Process control narratives and strategies, and
• Enterprise systems recommendations.
• Control Narratives and logic diagrams
• I&C construction plans and specifications
• The market focus for the Industrial I&C discipline is primarily private sector and industrial clients. The industrial I&C Water Delivery Group also supports other business lines, principally, manufacturing, power, oil and gas.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• The I&C Technical Leader implements the vision for Industrial Water Sector and works collaboratively with the Sector Leaders and the Water Delivery Group Technical Staff in identifying allocating the right resources, mapping teams to appropriate skills and advancement and delivering projects.
• The Technical Lead's responsibilities include but not limited to:
• Oversee and manage the development of plans and specifications to support purchase and installation of control systems and field instrumentation
• Manage and control quality for the development of a design through sketches, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.
• Participates in multi-discipline coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Performs calculations using company standard software, and proprietary manufacturer software such as ETAP.
• Participates in constructability reviews.
• Maintain a high level of quality on all documents produced
• Works on multiple projects.

Quality & innovation:

• Set and provide oversight of discipline-specific professional standards and quality assurance practices for deliverables management.
• Monitor compliance with our independent and peer reviewer design delivery frameworks to ensure the discipline-specific resources are allocated early on in pursuit and project planning and scoping and hold appropriate levels of expertise.
• Control the suite of applications used by the discipline (e.g. design tools, software applications) and co-ordinate advancement and learning around the futureproofing of the engineering teams as they pursue Digital (BIM enabled) Delivery.
• Reviews, approves, and drives compliance with standard processes for delivering engineering design work.
• Identify opportunities to differentiate the Industrial I&C discipline group through showcasing advancement.
• Control the collation of Intellectual Property data and the implementation of a comprehensive knowledge sharing platform.
• Facilitate the capture and communication of lessons learned at project close out or through project feedback.
• Maintain best practice guides and has overall responsibility for development of centralized resources for standards (guide specifications and standard details) as they apply to the discipline-specific engineering group.
• Coordinate software disciplines-specific software licensing in collaboration with IT and with partner business lines (where applicable).

Project Management & Execution :

• Execute projects as either a discipline lead, Project Technical Lead, Project Manager and/or in a senior technical capacity on significant projects in the region, or corporately.
• Collaborate with other Regions to promote work sharing and the import and export of personnel as required to successfully deliver projects throughout the business.
• Ensure participation in project risk scoping and appropriate ownership of technical lessons learnt at project close out.
• Delegate tasks under the Technical Lead’s responsibility to staff qualified to assist completion of these efforts.

Health & Safety:

• Organize technical learning as it relates to Stantec’s Health and Safety Framework” and instill a culture of delivery efficiency through the application of the framework. Support Stantec policies regarding health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• People Management:
• Maintain a culture of learning and collaboration across the Industrial I&C discipline group in a drive for quality and consistency across the engineering pool.
• Actively maintain internal and external networks to provide mentoring and coaching opportunities for team members.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Must have 10 yrs. plus, experience in heavy industrial and utility capital project engineering
• General understanding of all phases of project document production and the relationship between drawings and specifications.
• Knowledge of means and methods, materials, and industry standards.
• Ability to participate and collaborate in project team setting and to engage in creative and critical thought.
• Thorough understanding of electrical engineering concepts and ability to effectively communicate ideas to others.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills.
• Presentation and interview skills are preferred.
• Requires understanding of Microsoft Office Suite, and AutoCAD.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• A skill set that positions them at the highest technical level of their engineering field.
• A master’s degree in science or engineering is strongly recommended, however a bachelor’s degree may be sufficient should the candidate possess a strong skill set and appropriate professional accreditation (PE., or P.Eng.).
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience with a background in engineering consulting, preferably in the Industrial Water Sector, however experience with Power, Oil & Gas, and other industrial sector clients will also be considered.
• Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
• This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
• Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each others’ talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Primary Location : United States-Tennessee-Nashville

Other Locations : United States, United States-Virginia-Richmond, United States-North Carolina-Charlotte, United States-Texas-Houston, United States-Kentucky-Lexington, United States-Georgia-Atlanta, United States-Tennessee-Chattanooga, United States-Arizona-Chandler

Information

• Location: Nashville, United States

Industry experience

Education: Masters

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

Taxonomy

• Process Control
• Control Systems
• Monitoring & Control
• Control Systems
• Process Control
• Motion Control