Instrumentation & Controls; I&C) Design Lead

Frederick, United States | Posted on 10/16/2026

Catalyx specializes in the science of operational processes. With a footprint across North America and Europe, the company carefully automates and services R&D, production, packaging, and delivery processes—globally—with a sophisticated blend of products, technologies, and lifecycle services. The company was formed in 2022 after CXV Global (Crest Solutions, Xyntek, and Vista Link) and Panacea Technologies joined forces. For over three decades, Catalyx’s partnership-based culture has helped organizations in production-intense, highly regulated industries optimize their operational efficiency, performance, and safety.

To learn more about the company's experience and comprehensive suite of capabilities and solutions, visit www.catalyx.ai .

Catalyx is seeking an Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Technical Design Lead is responsible for defining, coordinating, and maintaining the project’s instrumentation and controls design requirements, equipment data,specifications, installation standards, and testing requirements. This role ensures that I&C designs are technically sound, consistently documented,and aligned with the Process Control System (PCS) architecture, site automationroadmap, industry standards, and overall project objectives.

• Lead the development, coordination, and reviewof I&C design requirements, specifications, schedules, and supporting engineering documentation.
• Evaluate emerging instrumentation technologies,communication protocols, and industry standards to develop recommendationsaligned with site operations, the long-term automation roadmap, and FMC F&Eobjectives.
• Define requirements for field instruments,valves, actuators, junction boxes, panels, cable interfaces, terminations,signal types, and associated installation arrangements.
• Coordinate I&C design interfaces with process, PCS, electrical, equipment layout, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure consistency across the engineering package.
• Establish and maintain I&C equipment data,instrument and final-element specifications, cable identification and sizing requirements, panel and junction-box arrangements, calibration requirements,and installation standards.
• Collaborate with site I&C and automation personnel to understand existing operations, validate design decisions, andensure alignment with the site’s current and future automation strategy.
• Provide early technical input to long-lead process equipment packages, including bioreactors and vendor-supplied skids,ensuring I&C requirements are complete, clearly defined, and compatible with the future PCS architecture.
• Define and review I&C requirements within vendor Statements of Work (SOWs), including instrumentation, valves, actuators,local devices, panels, junction boxes, cable interfaces, terminations, and hardwired I/O.
• Work closely with the APEO – PCS team to definethe interfaces between vendor-supplied equipment, including dumb skids, andthe project’s instrumentation and control systems.
• Define and coordinate installation, loop testing, calibration, and other I&C verification requirements to support construction, commissioning, and system handover.
• Identify and resolve gaps or inconsistencies in instrumentation data, loop and cable information, layouts, termination arrangements, and testing documentation before they impact procurement,fabrication, installation, or commissioning.
• Ensure designs consider applicable engineering standards, hazardous-area classifications (including ATEX where applicable),environmental conditions, accessibility, maintainability, and safe installation practices.
• Serve as the technical I&C design lead when coordinating with the Design-Build Firm and applicable System…