# Instrumentation & Controls Manager

**Company**: Standard Nuclear
**Location**: Oak Ridge, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Instrumentation & Controls Manager to lead our instrumentation and controls function across manufacturing, laboratory, and pilot production environments. This role will oversee the installation, maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and improvement of instrumentation, control systems, and related equipment that support safe and reliable operations.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of process instrumentation, control loops, sensors, transmitters, gauges, meters, and industrial control systems. They will also have experience with calibration programs, calibration records, and traceable measurement systems.

Responsibilities:

- Lead day-to-day I&C activities across manufacturing, laboratory, and technical operations

- Supervise and support I&C technicians, contractors, and related maintenance personnel

- Establish priorities for instrumentation maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and system improvements

- Ensure I&C work is executed safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved procedures

- Serve as the primary technical resource for instrumentation and controls issues across the site

Calibration & Measurement Systems:

- Own calibration program execution for process instruments, sensors, transmitters, gauges, meters, and related equipment

- Ensure calibration activities are completed on schedule and properly documented

- Maintain calibration records in accordance with company procedures, quality requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations

- Support development and improvement of calibration procedures, standards, and intervals

Control Systems & Equipment Support:

- Support troubleshooting, repair, and improvement of control systems, instrumentation loops, panels, sensors, and automated equipment

- Work with engineering teams on startup, commissioning, and modification of new systems and equipment

- Support PLC, HMI, SCADA, and industrial control system activities as applicable

- Diagnose recurring instrumentation or control system issues and drive corrective actions

Preventive Maintenance & Reliability:

- Develop and maintain preventive maintenance plans for instrumentation and control systems

- Partner with maintenance and operations teams to improve uptime, reliability, and equipment performance

- Identify obsolete, unreliable, or high-risk instrumentation and develop replacement or upgrade plans

Project & Engineering Support:

- Support engineering projects involving instrumentation, controls, automation, and process equipment

- Review drawings, specifications, P&IDs, wiring diagrams, control logic, and vendor documentation

- Provide input on instrument selection, control strategies, maintainability, and operational needs

Documentation & Compliance:

- Maintain accurate records for calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, system changes, and equipment status

- Ensure I&C activities comply with company procedures, safety requirements, quality standards, and applicable regulatory expectations

Safety & Field Execution:

- Ensure all I&C work is performed in accordance with safety procedures, including LOTO, electrical safety, PPE, and radiological controls where applicable

- Support pre-job planning, hazard identification, and work package development for I&C activities

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Instrumentation, Mechatronics, or a related technical field

- 7+ years of experience in instrumentation, controls, automation, maintenance, or electrical systems in an industrial or manufacturing environment

- Experience leading technicians, contractors, or technical teams in a field-based environment

- Strong understanding of process instrumentation, control loops, sensors, transmitters, gauges, meters, and industrial control systems

- Experience with calibration programs, calibration records, and traceable measurement systems

Benefits:

- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

- Health Savings Account

- Disability and Life Insurance

- 401(k) Plan

- Paid Time Off and Holidays

Work Environment:

This role is based on-site in Oak Ridge, TN and involves regular work in manufacturing, laboratory, pilot production, and industrial environments. The position requires hands-on support of instrumentation, electrical, and control systems, including field troubleshooting, equipment inspections, and coordination of maintenance and calibration activities.

## Skills

### Required
- Instrumentation
- Controls
- Automation
- Electrical Systems
- Process Instrumentation
- Control Loops
- Sensors
- Transmitters
- Gauges
- Meters
- Industrial Control Systems
- Calibration Programs
- Calibration Records
- Traceable Measurement Systems

### Nice to have
- PLC
- HMI
- SCADA
- Industrial Control System Activities
- Troubleshooting
- Repair
- Improvement of Control Systems
- Instrumentation Loops
- Panels
- Automated Equipment

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