I&C Engineer

Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC•Wadsworth, TX

1d•$70 - $125•Onsite

About The Position

The I&C Engineer will work on location at the South Texas nuclear plant in Wadsworth, Texas, supporting the Unit Auxiliary Transformer Replacement Projects for Units 1 and 2. The engineer will work with a team preparing the instrumentation and controls portion of engineering change packages to replace unit auxiliary transformers and associated monitoring and protection equipment. This is a three-year contract position reporting to the site Manager. The work includes developing and coordinating engineering design inputs for transformer instrumentation, trip and alarm logic, I/O and network data transfer, annunciators, network infrastructure, cyber security, human factors, monitoring software, system engineering data, equipment installation, testing, commissioning, and required maintenance activities. Design decisions and configurations are coordinated with Operations, System Engineering, and the Electrical Responsible Engineer as applicable.

Requirements

At least 5 years of I&C Engineering experience with nuclear power plant design, systems, and components.
Experience with specifications, technical writing, and engineering writing.
Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
Understanding of configuration management, requirements management, and verification and validation (V&V) concepts.
Knowledge of statistics and data analysis.
Experience with data entry and database management.
Must pass a pre-employment nuclear background check, drug screen, and fitness-for-duty screening.

Responsibilities

Review manufacturer design drawings.
Determine required I/O signals, associated topology, and configuration in concurrence with Operations, System Engineering, and the Electrical Responsible Engineer.
Determine and communicate required device configurations and associated topology to the manufacturer.
Facilitate development of annunciation device and Integrated Computer System (ICS) alarm configurations in concurrence with Operations and the System Engineer.
Develop trip logic diagram modifications in concurrence with Operations, the System Engineer, and the Electrical Responsible Engineer.
Develop engineering change packages and prepare Document Change Notices (Amendments).
Develop design inputs related to transformer instrumentation, specifications, and process connections.
Address existing and new transformer trip and alarm logic, and existing and new I/O to ICS, including Modbus/TCP.
Address transformer ancillary equipment heat dissipation, cable and wiring specifications, and network data transfer configurations.
Address annunciator and alarm configurations, network infrastructure requirements, capacity, specifications, and configuration.
Address cyber security and critical digital asset protocols, including port access controls, and human factors protocols.
Address transformer monitoring system software, system engineering data requirements, and transformer equipment installation, testing, and commissioning requirements.
Identify required I&C maintenance activities related to transformer equipment.