Senior Instrument & Controls Engineer

Glumac, a Tetra Tech Company, is seeking an experienced Senior Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Engineer to join our engineering team at our San Diego, CA office. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced engineering professional who enjoys leading complex projects, developing innovative control system solutions, and working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams. You will play a key role in delivering instrumentation and controls engineering solutions for advanced technology facilities, industrial manufacturing environments, and semiconductor projects.

Join a collaborative team focused on technical excellence, innovative engineering solutions, and delivering high-quality projects that support our clients' operational and business objectives. This position follows a hybrid work arrangement, requiring a minimum of two days per week in the office, with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. All candidates must reside in the United States and be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

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The Senior Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Engineer will lead the planning, design, development, and execution of instrumentation and control systems for advanced technology and industrial manufacturing projects. This position is responsible for developing engineering specifications, calculations, instrumentation documentation, control system architectures, and design deliverables while providing technical oversight and guidance to engineering designers and project teams. The successful candidate will take ownership of single-discipline and multidisciplinary engineering projects, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and provide technical recommendations to ensure control systems meet project requirements, applicable codes, industry standards, and client expectations.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience with industrial automation, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCS), motor controls, and instrumentation design, along with the ability to manage technical deliverables and support complex engineering projects from concept through construction.

• Lead the design and engineering of instrumentation and control systems for advanced technology, semiconductor, and industrial manufacturing facilities, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, standards, and project requirements.
• Develop, review, and oversee engineering specifications, calculations, instrumentation datasheets, instrument indexes, input/output (I/O) lists, control narratives, sequences of operations, logic diagrams, and control system architecture drawings.
• Design and specify industrial automation and control systems, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCS), motor controls, industrial communication networks, and associated instrumentation.
• Evaluate,…