Instrumentation & Controls Engineer - Kiewit Power Engineering

Position Overview

We are an innovative team of engineers and designers that supports projects throughout the company. Our staff leads and collaborates with Kiewit’s module fabrication and construction teams to approach construction-driven engineering with a focus on safe, cost effective, and innovative designs that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit’s legacy of excellence.

District Overview

Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,300 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 130 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.

Our rapidly growing Power district, which includes structural, civil, piping, mechanical, process, process safety, electrical, instrument and control disciplines, is a multi-faceted division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the EPC delivery model for power facilities. We offer a variety of engineering services, including owner's engineering, project development, detailed engineering and design, construction management and plant services. Our engineering teams bring power projects to life across North America in the following areas:

• Gas-fired generation
• Power delivery
• Environmental retrofits
• Renewables and new technology
• Water/wastewater

We are a high performing team of engineers and designers that develop projects through the project life-cycle engaging exciting projects throughout North America. Our staff leads the industrial markets engineering process and collaborates with Kiewit’s construction teams to approach construction-driven engineering with a focus on safe, cost-effective, and innovative designs that achieve client expectations and further Kiewit’s legacy of excellence.

Location

This position is based out of our Lenexa, KS office.

Responsibilities

•    Works with a multi-discipline team to review and understand client operational and business needs; specifies equipment and contributes to design decisions that meets those needs
•    Gains a comprehensive understanding of departmental design standards, applicable engineering codes, and Kiewit guidelines; provide suggestions and recommendations as needed.
•    Assists in feasibility and planning studies, analyzing customer needs and data including researching, investigate and coordinate with other engineers, and providing recommendations to the customer.
•    Administers contracts for instrumentation and control equipment, especially the plant Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and plant monitoring and instrumentation. Monitors and plan for required submittal dates. 
•    Responds to questions and Requests for Interpretation (RFIs) from the client and construction contractor dealing with applicable instrumentation and control systems, equipment, operations, logic, and startup. 
•    Reviews other Discipline’s deliverables for Instrument and Controls impacts and compatibility with the design. 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation and Controls or Electrical engineering from an ABET accredited four-year college or university program
•    3.0 cumulative GPA required
•    0-2 years’ experience performing engineering related duties
•    Familiarity with control system programming and fluency in reading logic diagrams 
•    Intermediate programming experience, especially with regard to Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) programming 
•    Experience in field construction, power or start-up power plant work is desirable