Sr. Project Engineer - Instrumentation & Controls

LJA•Dallas, TX

14h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Sr. Project Engineer at LJA Energy, you will support instrumentation and controls engineering for oil and gas midstream facilities, including natural gas processing plants, compressor stations, pipeline facilities, pump stations, terminals, metering facilities, liquids-handling systems, and brownfield modifications. This role is focused on engineering definition, specification, coordination, checking, and professional oversight of instrumentation and control systems. The ideal candidate is a licensed Professional Engineer who is prepared to take technical ownership of assigned work, serve as Engineer of Record, and collaborate directly with clients, vendors, project managers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Controls Engineering, or another engineering discipline directly applicable to instrumentation and control systems.
Current and active Professional Engineer license in at least one United States jurisdiction.
Willingness and eligibility to obtain professional engineering licensure by comity in Texas and other states where LJA performs project work within an agreed and reasonably short period.
Minimum of seven years of directly relevant instrumentation and controls engineering experience.
Direct experience with oil and gas midstream facilities.
Experience working within an engineering consulting, EPC, or midstream operating-company environment.
Demonstrated ability to prepare, check, approve, and take professional responsibility for instrumentation and controls deliverables.
Demonstrated knowledge of field instrumentation, control systems, shutdown systems, metering systems, and industrial communications.
Ability to accept professional responsibility for assigned instrumentation and controls work and serve as Engineer of Record within the limits of education, experience, licensure, and technical competence.
Strong working knowledge of field instrumentation, industrial control systems, and midstream facility operations.
Experience specifying pressure, temperature, flow, level, analytical, vibration, and other process instrumentation.
Experience specifying control valves, shutdown valves, actuators, regulators, solenoids, switches, and related accessories.
Understanding of PLC, RTU, DCS, SCADA, HMI, safety-system, and packaged-equipment control-system applications.
Knowledge of hazardous-area classification and instrumentation requirements for classified locations.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
Ability to work from LJA’s Houston office during the three-month probationary period.
Ability to travel to operating facilities and client locations when required.

Nice To Haves

Ten or more years of instrumentation and controls engineering experience.
Previous experience serving as Engineer of Record.
Experience as an instrumentation and controls discipline lead or technical authority.
Experience with both greenfield and brownfield midstream projects.
Experience with gas and liquid custody-transfer metering systems.
Experience with compressor controls, anti-surge controls, vibration monitoring, and machinery-protection systems.
Experience with fire and gas detection systems, safety instrumented systems, and safety lifecycle documentation.
Experience participating in or facilitating HAZOP, LOPA, and SIL-assessment sessions.
Experience with compressor stations, gas plants, meter stations, pump stations, terminals, or pipeline facilities.
Experience conducting field investigations, facility walkdowns, commissioning, start-up, factory acceptance testing, or site acceptance testing.
Familiarity with AutoCAD, CADWorx, Bluebeam Revu, document-management systems, and engineering drawing-review software.

Responsibilities

Developing instrumentation and controls deliverables for feasibility studies, front-end engineering, detailed engineering, facility modifications, debottlenecking projects, and brownfield installations.
Selecting and specifying field instrumentation for pressure, temperature, flow, level, composition, vibration, speed, density, and other process variables.
Preparing, reviewing, and approving instrument indexes, data sheets, I/O lists, alarm and setpoint lists, specifications, location plans, installation details, control-system architecture diagrams, material takeoffs, and procurement specifications.
Reviewing P&IDs for instrumentation, control loops, alarms, shutdowns, safeguards, control valves, isolation requirements, and consistency with the project design basis.
Developing and reviewing control philosophies, control narratives, operating philosophies, alarm philosophies, shutdown philosophies, cause-and-effect diagrams, interlock descriptions, and sequence-of-operation documents.
Coordinating control-system requirements with process engineers, operations personnel, control-system programmers, system integrators, vendors, and client automation personnel.
Supporting metering, measurement, fire and gas, safety systems, procurement, vendor coordination, field investigations, construction support, and quality reviews.
Managing assigned work within approved project scope, budget, and schedule while identifying technical, quality, resource, and schedule concerns.
Providing technical direction, mentorship, and review for supporting engineers, designers, and drafters.
Representing LJA professionally in client meetings, site visits, design reviews, vendor discussions, and multidisciplinary project coordination.