Valar Atomics
Staff Instrumentation & Controls Engineer - Hardware
Orangeville, Utah, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; no stated alternative.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Chemical, or Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
About the job
Designs, specifies, commissions, and maintains instrumentation and control hardware for nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities, with technical leadership over complex projects.
What you'll do
- Select and specify field instruments and final control elements; develop instrumentation project documentation and standards.
- Design control panels, I/O architecture, hazardous-area equipment, safety instrumented system hardware, field wiring, and OT network infrastructure.
- Lead commissioning, calibration, loop tuning, troubleshooting, contractor oversight, and mentorship of junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a listed engineering discipline or related discipline.
- 8+ years of instrumentation or I&C engineering experience in process industries, including ownership of capital-project instrumentation from specification through commissioning.
- Demonstrated experience specifying and sizing field instruments and control valves, developing instrumentation deliverables, and leading hazardous-area classification and intrinsic-safety loop verification.
- Demonstrated experience owning safety instrumented system hardware scope, including device selection, redundancy and voting architecture, proof-test planning, and SIL verification to IEC 61511.
Nice to have
- ISA CAP or CCST certification, or equivalent credentials; PE license or eligibility.
- Experience with SIL lifecycle documentation, instrumentation software or asset management systems, analytical or nuclear instrumentation, or electrical and instrumentation CAD tools.
Tools
4-20 mA/HART, Foundation Fieldbus, PROFIBUS PA, Modbus RTU, IEC 61511, IEC 61508, NEC Article 500/505, IEC 60079
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