Instrumentation and Controls Engineer
Role Overview
Provide engineering support and technical accountability for CANDU instrumentation and control systems.
Work in a licensed Canadian nuclear environment where nuclear safety, quality, configuration management, human performance, and conservative engineering decisions are fundamental.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Provide engineering support and technical accountability for CANDU instrumentation and control systems.
Work in a licensed Canadian nuclear environment where nuclear safety, quality, configuration management, human performance, and conservative engineering decisions are fundamental.
Your role
- Prepare calculations, assessments, specifications, and design-change documentation with appropriate senior oversight.
- Perform field walkdowns, review data, evaluate equipment, resolve technical queries, and maintain configuration control.
- Apply nuclear codes, standards, procedures, and quality requirements to assigned work.
- Coordinate interfaces with other disciplines and suppliers; document assumptions, limitations, and acceptance criteria.
- Progress toward independent professional practice through mentoring and demonstrated competence.
- Apply nuclear QA, design verification, configuration management, operating experience, ageing management, equipment qualification, human factors, and commissioning principles as applicable.
- Work effectively with operations, maintenance, construction, commissioning, suppliers, quality, and authorized-inspection interfaces.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline from a recognized program or equivalent acceptable to PEO.
- P.Eng. licence in good standing with PEO is required where the role exercises independent professional-engineering responsibility; maintain applicable CPD obligations.
- Five to seven years of progressively responsible engineering experience, with depth appropriate to the scope; Canadian nuclear/CANDU experience is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of CANDU instrumentation and control systems, including sensing, control logic, setpoints, trip functions, digital systems, qualification, independence, V&V, and commissioning.
- Working knowledge, as applicable, of CNSC expectations, CSA nuclear standards N285, N286, N287, N289, N290 and N299, and ASME BPVC requirements.
- Understand the station design and licensing basis and apply governing code editions, station procedures, and approved engineering processes.
- Demonstrated engineering judgment, technical risk communication, cross-functional issue resolution, and commitment to nuclear safety under schedule and cost pressure.
Work arrangement
- The employer describes a hybrid working culture.
Rewards and benefits
- Competitive compensation, employee recognition, and flexible benefits for health, wellbeing, financial, and lifestyle needs.
- Training and professional-development opportunities and time-off policies.
About AtkinsRéalis
AtkinsRéalis is an engineering services and nuclear organization working across infrastructure and energy systems.
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