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Control & Instr. Engineer-Data Center

SLB
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 May 2026

About the role

Come join us at SLB New Energy & Industrial and be part of a global company driving energy innovation for a balanced planet

 

SLB New Energy & Industrial (NEI) is a division of SLB; our portfolio includes ventures in carbon capture and sequestration, geothermal power, energy storage, sustainable battery-grade lithium, hydrogen and Data center infrastructure solutions. To know more about NEI please visit https://www.slb.com/about/driving-energy-innovation/scaling-new-energy-systems

Our Data Center infrastructure solutions business provides Innovative and cost-effective solutions that enable building faster, smarter and more resilient data centers. Our modular infrastructure solutions scale AI and cloud computing capacity while minimizing capital risk and deployment delays. From design and supply chain to commissioning and operations, by standardizing components and relocating labor to controlled offsite environments, we help reduce costs, improve lead times, and lower construction risk while ensuring quality and global repeatability. To know more about our Data Centers Infrastructure solutions please visit https://www.slb.com/products-and-services/scaling-new-energy-systems/data-center-infrastructure-solutions

 

SLB is seeking a motivated Controls & Instrument Engineer to support the Engineering Lead and Product Engineering Manager. They will be accountable for the electrical scope and systems in large scale data centers across the design, construction, assembly, testing, installation, and commissioning phases. The Controls & Instrument Engineer will be responsible for checking and approving drawings / designs; interface communication, and ensuring the accuracy, reliability, efficiency, and safety of the electrical scope of work for Hyperscale Data Center Modules meets customer’s requirements and Industrial Standards.

The Controls & Instrument will play a critical role with supporting the plant during the manufacturing stage. They will also be assisting various stakeholders in troubleshooting site installation and commissioning problems.

 

We have multiple openings at multiple levels of experience. If you want to join a dynamic team within exciting growing industry, please apply

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Engineer will support the goals and programs established by the management team. These roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

 

  • Checking and approving drawings, information and documentation which meets Industrial standards and code to enable the manufacturing group and other departments to produce Data Center Infrastructure Modules.
  • Attend and initiate Design and Development Planning and Review sessions to meet customers’ and industry’s needs.
  • Prepare TRs (Technical Requisitions) for electrical systems, Instrument systems, and various components.
  • Review vendor quotations, full technical bid analysis, and provide feedback to procurement team conveying gaps or compliance of proposal to project requirements.
  • Prepare and complete various Controls and Instrument engineering deliverable drawings, documents, and calculations such as instrument list/index, instrument data sheets, control system architecture drawings, alarm schedule, select and specify all safety and control instruments, etc.
  • Review of the P&ID, IOM Procedure, Start-Up Procedure, and Control and Shutdown Philosophy to ensure Data Center FAT and Operation are issue free.
  • Ensure all major equipment buy-outs are properly specified and purchased to interface seamlessly with overall system.
  • Prepare control narrative / philosophy.
  • Troubleshoot any operation issues during start-up and commissioning of data center as it relates to control systems and instrumentation.
  • Perform ladder logic programming (if needed), control valve sizing, relief valve sizing, flow element sizing. Train team members to perform these sizing.
  • Recommend control system, control valve, level instruments and flow instruments best suited for application.
  • Participate in client or internal HAZOP.
  • Assist in providing hookup details to I&E contractor for installation of instrumentations.
  • Review and approve subcontractor field instrume

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