Sr. Engineer, Safety

Role Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Life Safety Systems Engineering (LSSE) group within the Laboratory Services Management & Engineering (LSME) Department. This role is critical to supporting R&D activities by ensuring the effective design, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of hazardous gas monitoring and alarming systems across multiple Corning Valley locations. In this position, you will serve as the technical expert for the Sullivan Park Hazardous Gas Monitoring System (HGMS), including its electronic controls, software, communication systems, and user interfaces.

You will play a key role in protecting employees, facilities, and company assets by applying engineering expertise, relevant codes and standards, and industry best practices to life safety systems.

This role requires a highly collaborative engineer who is comfortable working across disciplines, partnering with laboratory owners, project managers, emergency response teams, facility operations, and external vendors to deliver safe, compliant, and reliable monitoring systems.

• Provide engineering support for hazardous gas monitoring and alarming systems, including design, documentation, controller programming, and system commissioning
• Serve as system owner for HGMS controls, communications, software, and user interfaces
• Design electrical hardware and control circuits; develop PLC software and HMI applications
• Maintain a flexible, modular, and rapidly deployable control system tailored to site needs
• Produce and sustain design standards and modular template libraries
• Coordinate installation, commissioning, calibration, maintenance, annual testing, and change control of HGMS systems
• Support break/fix troubleshooting and hands‑on system recovery as needed
• Participate in project meetings and attend Process Hazard Review Board (PHRB) meetings as required
• Work closely with lab owners and the PHRB to implement gas monitoring requirements
• Supervise trades installation of HGMS systems and oversee engineering work on major‑scope projects
• Ensure system documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements for system performance and reliability
• Ensure compliance with applicable legal, industry, building, electrical, and safety code requirements
• Act as a liaison with laboratory customers, Facility Operations, Workplace Services, Emergency Response Team, Security, and vendors

This role has direct responsibility for the total operation of hazardous gas monitoring systems (HGMS) electronic controls and user interfaces, instrumentation configuration parameters, Ethernet communication interfaces with gas sensors and enterprise networks, Wago PLC electrical controls and software, Red Lion HMI interfaces and data collection, Gas sensor data models and Modbus implementation, diagnostic circuits and cycle monitors for safety‑critical hardware and software readiness, and interpretation of gas readings following emergency response events to help determine root cause.

• Simplex device installation
• Administration of bypasses for hot work and special operating conditions
• Technical assistance for Simplex and HGMS systems during emergency responses
• System testing
• On‑call support and second‑level project support

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of experience in an industrial environment with building and/or process controls
• Experience in electrical hardware design and software development
• Experience supporting automation in a live operating environment, such as manufacturing, occupied facilities, or…