The Role
Leads instrumentation and controls engineering teams across energy and industrial projects. Provides technical direction, reviews designs and specifications, coordinates multidisciplinary activities, evaluates vendors, supports project planning and field execution, and manages client relationships. The role also contributes to proposals, business development, commissioning, start-up, engineering standards, and team development. Periodic travel to project and client sites is required.
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Position Summary
We are currently seeking an Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Engineering Manager to lead and support engineering projects within our Energy group. This role will provide technical leadership, project oversight, and team management across a variety of energy and industrial projects, including power generation facilities, natural gas compressor stations, LNG facilities, gas processing facilities, and other midstream and downstream infrastructure.
The ideal candidate is a senior I&C professional with strong technical expertise, project experience, and leadership capabilities who can work directly with clients, lead multidisciplinary teams, and help grow and develop the I&C engineering practice.
Role & Responsibilities
- Lead and manage I&C engineering teams across multiple projects and clients
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to I&C engineers and designers
- Serve as a key technical and client-facing leader throughout project execution
- Coordinate I&C activities with electrical, mechanical, civil, process, and other engineering disciplines
- Review and approve engineering designs, calculations, drawings, specifications, and technical deliverables
- Develop engineering scopes, design approaches, studies, and project estimates
- Develop instrumentation and control system specifications and procurement documentation
- Evaluate vendor proposals, technical bids, and equipment selections
- Troubleshoot complex I&C and controls engineering issues and provide practical solutions
- Support project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource allocation
- Participate in client meetings, design reviews, technical discussions, and project presentations
- Support business development activities, proposals, and development of new client relationships
- Conduct field walkdowns, site assessments, construction support, equipment installations, commissioning, and start-up activities as needed
- Help establish and maintain engineering standards, processes, and quality expectations
- Identify opportunities to improve project execution, technical capabilities, and team performance
- Travel periodically to client and project sites as required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, or another relevant engineering discipline
- 10+ years of professional I&C engineering experience
- Experience leading I&C engineering projects, teams, or departments
- Experience supporting power generation, oil & gas, midstream, downstream, LNG, natural gas, gas processing, or other industrial energy projects
- Strong understanding of instrumentation, controls, control systems, and I&C engineering design
- Experience with engineering design, equipment specifications, procurement, vendor coordination, and field support
- Strong ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical activities across disciplines
- Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, and client-management skills
- Ability to travel to project and client sites as needed
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license strongly preferred
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical, or another relevant engineering discipline
- 10+ years of professional instrumentation and controls engineering experience
- Experience leading I&C engineering projects, teams, or departments
- Experience supporting power generation, oil and gas, midstream, downstream, LNG, natural gas, gas processing, or other industrial energy projects
- Strong understanding of instrumentation, controls, control systems, and I&C engineering design
- Experience with engineering design, equipment specifications, procurement, vendor coordination, and field support
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical activities across disciplines
- Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, and client-management skills
- Ability to travel to project and client sites as needed
- Active Professional Engineer license
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The Company
What We Do
Pond is a full-service consulting firm that has provided integrated engineering, architecture, planning, and construction management solutions to public and private clients since 1965. Our staff, located throughout the U.S. and globally, is committed to delivering tailored solutions. Recognizing that clients benefit the most when multi-disciplined expertise is leveraged, Pond builds teams based on client and project requirements, regardless of location, reinforcing our “One Pond” culture
