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Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer - Mission Critical

Amentum
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Dec 2025

About the role

Senior Controls & Instrumentation Engineer - Mission Critical - (PFO00068G) 

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This position can be performed in either of our Tullahoma, TN or Farmington Hills, MI offices.

Description

Join our team turning abstract ideas into realities. Collaborate with industry experts to develop solutions to mission-critical challenges, such as NASA’s return to the moon, the DoD’s national security initiatives, international automotive manufacturers’ development of fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, and the DoE’s energy research. We tackle challenges in emerging technologies, cyber, intelligence, space exploration, energy transformation, and resiliency to ensure national security. As the world’s thinkers, visionaries, and doers, we disrupt the status quo and affect real, meaningful change in how we provide solutions to our customers, operate our business, and support communities.

Advanced Solutions specializes in the design, construction, and operation of unique and complex research and development facilities, including, as examples, wind tunnels (aerospace, automotive, and motorsports), rocket test stands, climatic chambers, jet engine test cells, acoustic chambers, altitude test facilities, captive trajectory systems, and nuclear facilities.  Our projects span the automotive, motorsports, defense, nuclear, and aerospace markets.  Recent clients include Audi, Boeing, BMW, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Honda, General Motors, NASA, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, Volkswagen, confidential F1 motorsports clients, and many others in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Advance Solutions is looking for a Senior-Level Controls & Instrumentation Engineer to support projects ranging from small studies to multi-million dollar turn-key supply. A successful candidate must be team-oriented, organized, able to communicate to all levels of the organization, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Your work will be unique and challenging while supporting several projects in a dynamic and exciting environment. This position will provide you with an unparalleled opportunity to work with a team of motivated engineering and business professionals who work to ensure client satisfaction and deliver projects within scope, budget, and schedule.

Responsibilities include:

·         Lead teams in developing hardware assembly and wiring diagrams for control and data acquisition systems.

·         Lead development of control system software designs that include control of temperature, pressure, humidity, flow, force, motion of mechanisms, system safety, human safety, and other advanced process and electromechanical systems.

·         Developing control system software in PLC ladder logic, function block, HMI programming, etc.

·         Developing interfaces to facility equipment using hardwired interfaces and industrial networks.

·         Applying closed loop controls methods, both classical and modern, to control continuously variable systems.

·         Providing quality system processes such as checking the work of others, following standard procedures, and ensuring compliance to codes and standards.

·         Providing on-site team direction of facility startup, checkout, and commissioning activities, both domestically and abroad.

·         Coordinating with other engineering disciplines and departments to ensure success.

·         Planning labor resources and scheduling project milestones to ensure project completion within technical scope, budget, and client schedule.

·         Developing proposals to capture future work with current clients and new markets.

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