Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Design Lead

Catalyx is seeking an Instrumentation & Controls (I&C) Technical Design Lead is responsible for defining, coordinating, and maintaining the project’s instrumentation and controls design requirements, equipment data, specifications, installation standards, and testing requirements. This role ensures that I&C designs are technically sound, consistently documented, and aligned with the Process Control System (PCS) architecture, site automation roadmap, industry standards, and overall project objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, coordination, and review of I&C design requirements, specifications, schedules, and supporting engineering documentation.
• Evaluate emerging instrumentation technologies, communication protocols, and industry standards to develop recommendations aligned with site operations, the long-term automation roadmap, and FMC F&E objectives.
• Define requirements for field instruments, valves, actuators, junction boxes, panels, cable interfaces, terminations, signal types, and associated installation arrangements.
• Coordinate I&C design interfaces with process, PCS, electrical, equipment layout, construction, and commissioning teams to ensure consistency across the engineering package.
• Establish and maintain I&C equipment data, instrument and final-element specifications, cable identification and sizing requirements, panel and junction-box arrangements, calibration requirements, and installation standards.
• Collaborate with site I&C and automation personnel to understand existing operations, validate design decisions, and ensure alignment with the site’s current and future automation strategy.
• Provide early technical input to long-lead process equipment packages, including bioreactors and vendor-supplied skids, ensuring I&C requirements are complete, clearly defined, and compatible with the future PCS architecture.
• Define and review I&C requirements within vendor Statements of Work (SOWs), including instrumentation, valves, actuators, local devices, panels, junction boxes, cable interfaces, terminations, and hardwired I/O.
• Work closely with the APEO – PCS team to define the interfaces between vendor-supplied equipment, including “dumb skids,” and the project’s instrumentation and control systems.
• Define and coordinate installation, loop testing, calibration, and other I&C verification requirements to support construction, commissioning, and system handover.
• Identify and resolve gaps or inconsistencies in instrumentation data, loop and cable information, layouts, termination arrangements, and testing documentation before they impact procurement, fabrication, installation, or commissioning.
• Ensure designs consider applicable engineering standards, hazardous-area classifications (including ATEX where applicable), environmental conditions, accessibility, maintainability, and safe installation practices.
• Serve as the technical I&C design lead when coordinating with the Design-Build Firm and applicable System Integrators, ensuring consistent implementation of project design requirements.
• Develop and support I&C design documentation for the overall project, long-lead process equipment workstream, and other related engineering deliverables.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Instrumentation and Controls Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience in instrumentation and controls engineering design for complex industrial or process facilities.
• Strong knowledge of field instrumentation, control valves, actuators, instrumentation interfaces, cabling, junction boxes, panels, and termination arrangements.
• Experience developing and reviewing I&C specifications, instrument schedules, equipment data sheets, loop diagrams, cable schedules, installation details, and testing documentation.
• Understanding of Process Control System (PCS) architectures, industrial communication protocols, hardwired I/O, and integration of vendor-supplied equipment packages.
• Experience coordinating instrumentation requirements with process, electrical, automation, equipment vendors, construction, and commissioning teams.
• Knowledge of applicable instrumentation standards, hazardous-area requirements, and relevant regulatory and industry practices.
• Experience defining and reviewing vendor SOWs and technical requirements for long-lead process equipment and packaged systems.
• Ability to assess emerging technologies and develop practical recommendations that balance innovation, site standards, operational requirements, and long-term automation strategies.
• Strong technical coordination, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead technical design discussions, resolve cross-disciplinary interfaces, and drive design consistency across multiple project stakeholders.