Specialist Instrumentation, Control & Electrical Engineer

Overview
AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Specialist Instrumentation, Control & Electrical Engineer to join the Retube Tooling & Field Services Department. The successful candidate will serve as a recognized technical specialist, providing authoritative engineering direction for complex instrumentation, automation, control, and electrical systems used in nuclear retube tooling, refurbishment, maintenance, and field-service projects.

Overview
AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Specialist Instrumentation, Control & Electrical Engineer to join the Retube Tooling & Field Services Department. The successful candidate will serve as a recognized technical specialist, providing authoritative engineering direction for complex instrumentation, automation, control, and electrical systems used in nuclear retube tooling, refurbishment, maintenance, and field-service projects.

The role combines advanced technical expertise with accountability for major engineering work packages, including technical scope, cost, schedule, interfaces, quality, and delivery.

Your role

Act as a technical authority for complex instrumentation, control, automation, and electrical systems.

Lead the design, integration, qualification, testing, commissioning, and field deployment of specialized nuclear tooling.

Take responsibility for major engineering work packages, including scope, technical content, cost, schedule, risk, and delivery.

Establish technical direction and resolve complex engineering and system-integration issues.

Develop, review, and approve requirements, designs, specifications, drawings, test procedures, commissioning plans, and technical reports.

Lead PLC, HMI, SCADA, LabVIEW, motion-control, industrial-network, and data‑acquisition applications.

Provide technical oversight for FAT, DVT, Code Conversion Testing, equipment qualification, commissioning, and field execution.

Lead root‑cause investigations and corrective actions for complex technical issues.

Serve as a key technical interface with clients, vendors, manufacturing teams, project personnel, and field organizations.

Support proposals, estimates, schedules, execution strategies, engineering standards, and operational planning.

Mentor engineers and technical employees while promoting technical excellence and knowledge transfer.

Ensure compliance with safety, quality, cybersecurity, configuration‑management, regulatory, and engineering‑governance requirements.

About You

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Controls, Instrumentation, Software, Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

P.Eng. designation or eligibility for registration with Professional Engineers Ontario is highly desirable.

Recognized technical expertise and credibility within a specialized engineering discipline.

Advanced experience developing and integrating HMI and SCADA solutions using WinCC or comparable industrial platforms.

Strong experience with LabVIEW, National Instruments hardware, automated testing, instrumentation, and data‑acquisition systems.

Extensive experience with instrumentation, sensors, measurement technologies, signal conditioning, equipment interfaces, and calibration principles.

Experience with cybersecurity, configuration management, engineering change control, and lifecycle management for industrial control systems.

Advanced experience with Siemens PLCs, TIA Portal, Step 7, Safety PLCs, WinCC, industrial networks, PROFIBUS, and PROFINET.

Strong experience with LabVIEW, National Instruments hardware, DAQ systems, instrumentation, and automated testing.

Experience supporting nuclear projects, CANDU refurbishment, retube tooling, remote handling, robotics, inspection systems, or field services is highly desirable.

Extensive progressive experience in instrumentation, controls,…