Project I&C Engineer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking an Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) System Design Engineer to join our Resilience Water team in any of our Ohio locations or Detroit. This is an exciting opportunity for an I&C Systems Design Engineer, preferably with consulting engineering experience, to join our team and lead projects with a variety of I&C, automation system design, and SCADA integration. The selected candidate will be responsible for I&C and SCADA design and implementation services for diverse clients and projects for environmental remediation, industrial & municipal water and wastewater treatment, conveyance systems, and facilities.

This role provides engineering and design services to produce design & construction documents for projects. They will coordinate with process, mechanical, and electrical engineers assigned to the project and prepare technical memorandums and develop design criteria, SCADA system architecture, process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), SCADA network diagrams, process control functional narratives, control schematics, panel layout diagrams, and interconnection diagrams.

Additional duties include:

• Support projects and clients in the planning, design and construction of water/wastewater facilities and other similar industrial facilities, serving as Arcadis’ main point of contact with our clients for their I&C needs.
• Project Manager leading all facets of project, to include budgeting, planning, cost estimating, design and execution of SCADA and instrumentation & control systems.
• Support electrical engineering and developing electrical design to support the I&C systems design. Conduct factory testing, site acceptance testing, field checkout, and startup of I&C and SCADA system startups. Utilize technical experience and expertise in the execution of I&C and SCADA projects from inception to successful startup and turnover.
• Program process control logic in PLCs and configure graphical HMI for SCADA system on a variety of platforms. Configure historical data collection, archiving and generating reports on a variety of platforms. Produce effective and accurate written specifications for implementing I&C and SCADA projects.
• Mentor junior engineers and designers.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Environmental Engineering or a closely related field of study
• 7+ years of I&C, Automation, and SCADA system design and implementation experience in water/wastewater market.
• Professional Engineer license or the ability to obtain license within 12 months.

• Basic knowledge of Autocad and Revit. Ability to self‑direct and work on multiple assignments at once while meeting project deliverable dates and completing other task‑driven assignments.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, as well as excellent teamwork skills. Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, MS Project, and Outlook).
• Advanced knowledge in applying instrumentation and controls to process and electromechanical equipment and developing SCADA networks. Knowledge of designing and developing fiber optic cable networks for SCADA systems. Advanced knowledge of radio and cellular telemetry networks. Basic knowledge of IT and industrial networks.
• Valid driver’s license and clean driving record. Willingness to travel (25%).

• 10+ years of experience in developing bid and construction documents
• PLC/HMI programming, configuration & startup experience

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