Design Engineer III - Control Systems

The purpose of this position is to provide the essential administrative processes, technical knowledge, and perform the work listed. This role has the responsibility to promote Fluor's competitiveness within the global marketplace by delivering quality services of unmatched value and technical competence. This position serves as an Area Lead on assigned projects or performs moderately complex engineering assignments, evaluates, selects, and applies standard engineering techniques to a medium set of difficult assignments.

- Apply Cost Competitive Execution techniques to develop the most cost-effective total project solution for execution of the discipline engineering work

- Develop and review specifications, including design criteria

- Participate in activities associated with equipment and material procurement, permitting, and subcontracting

- Perform and check calculations, specify equipment, and solve moderately complex engineering problems

- Review vendor equipment documentation within the discipline and from other disciplines for compliance with project requirements, and actively seek discrepancy resolution

- Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding solutions to problems with varying complexity in accordance with organization and/or project objectives and guidelines

- Accredited four (4) year degree or global equivalent in engineering field of study and six (6) years of work-related experience; a recognized professional certification or registration in the applicable field, if required; some locations may have additional or different qualifications in order to comply with local requirements

- Professional registration and membership in technical society (preferred)

- Advanced knowledge of discipline codes and standards, commercial availability and cost of materials

- Intermediate computer and software skills to include the use of word processing, e-mail, spreadsheet and electronic presentation programs

- Perform control systems sizing calculations for control valves, relief valves, flow elements, thermowells and other instrumentation - Create instrument index and datasheets and generate reports in Hexagon Smart Instrumentation database - Develop intermediate complexity control systems narrative specifications - Develop basic control systems, cause and effect diagrams, or logic diagrams as required by project - Represent control systems and participate in model reviews - Develop specifications and design of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) hardware and software applications; monitor DCS/PLC/SIS design developed by the design group - Intermediate knowledge of: o Specifying instrumentation o Control systems procurement activities o Piping and Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) representation; can recognize/report problems associated with control systems representation on P&ID o Developing control strategies and represent on P&ID o Instrument design and installation requirements