Specialist Instrumentation, Control & Electrical Engineer

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.

• 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.

• 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, automation, electrical engineering, or complex industrial systems.
• Expert‑level knowledge of Siemens PLC and automation platforms, including TIA Portal, Step 7, S7‑SCL, Safety PLCs, SIMATIC NET, industrial TCP/IP, RTU systems, PROFIBUS, and PROFINET.
• Advanced knowledge of motion‑control technologies, including servo systems, VFDs, motors, encoders, positioning systems, and coordinated‑motion applications.
• Strong…