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Entry Level Instrumentation & Controls Designer

Barry-Wehmiller
Bellingham, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Apr 2025
💰 $66,000/yr($60,000/yr$66,000/yr)

About the role

About Us:

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology.


 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.


 

Job Description:

Instrumentation & Controls Designer

Who You’ll Work With

You will join one of our 45 offices in the US, be part of a committed team of over 1500 professionals, and work in teams and directly with our clients doing work that is shaping the world around us. You will be welcomed into a rapidly growing business and team and empowered to make an impact. You will be valued, cared for, and challenged on your path to becoming a world-class professional consultant and surrounded by leaders who are committed to creating an environment that enables you to realize your own success and fulfillment.

When you join Design Group as an Instrumentation & Controls Designer, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth. In this role, you will work with a team of industry experts to help the world’s leading companies solve their most difficult problems. You will join our Control System Integration Practice and partner with seasoned leaders, technical specialists, and subject matter experts to deliver the highest quality solutions to our clients with consistency and accuracy.

What You’ll Do

You'll work individually and in teams to support capital projects and implement solutions for our clients. Together, you will help our clients make critical changes to improve their performance and realize their most important goals.

  • Work with licensed engineers and other experienced designers to develop instrument specifications and PLC, SCADA, and DCS based control systems for industrial facilities
  • Design instrumentation and control systems for industrial, manufacturing, and utilities projects
  • Create specifications including calculations for flow meters, analyzers, transmitters, and other field instruments
  • Perform control system studies including troubleshooting existing control systems
  • Create new system conceptual design and control system retrofits
  • Develop documentation including detailed instrument specifications and selection, logic diagrams, loop sheets, instrument lists, I/O lists, and instrumentation plan drawings
  • Assume responsibility for instrumentation/controls engineering/design on multi-disciplinary engineering projects
  • Provide field support including on-site design, technical support, commissioning, and construction management
  • Provide training and mentoring of junior level instrumentation/controls designers
  • Make an impact day-to-day with your skills and expertise, strengthening that relationship with our clients and team

What You’ll Bring

  • Experience in control systems documentation and in the engineering design of industrial control systems including instrumentation, control logic, PLC, SCADA and DCS based control systems
  • An ability to meet client deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with other engineering disciplines across multiple offices
  • Experience supervising engineers, designers, and drafters as part of a control system design team
  • Safety Integrated System experience (preferred)
  • A willingness to travel up to 30% for project requirements including installation and start-up activities, client and company sponsored meetings, trainings, industry related seminars, forums, and conventions
  • An associate’s degree in a technical field (preferred)

Our culture and commitment to our people is what sets us apart. We foster an environment of mutual respect, integrity, and unconditional interest in the individual and collective

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