Hybrid Lead Instrumentation Engineer

at Solstice Advanced Materials

• Job title: Lead Instrumentation Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $130,872 - $165,635 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Baton Rouge, United States

About the role

• Lead Instrumentation Engineer providing technical leadership for capital projects across Solstice Advanced Materials. Supporting manufacturing network with projects ranging from small enhancements to large-scale investments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the instrumentation and controls subject matter expert, providing technical leadership across all phases of capital projects, from concept through startup.
• Lead instrumentation engineering activities through Pre-FEED, FEED, detailed design, construction support, and startup/commissioning.
• Develop Scopes of Work (SOWs), Basis of Design documents, and instrumentation deliverables for capital project execution.
• Specify, select, and apply instrumentation, sensing elements, transmitters, control valves, and final control elements, including pneumatic, hydraulic, PLC, DCS, and SCADA systems.
• Design instrumentation systems suitable for industrial plant environments, ensuring operability, maintainability, accessibility, and safety.
• Direct the development and review of engineering drawings, specifications, and design deliverables, ensuring technical accuracy and consistency.
• Perform instrumentation sizing calculations, including protective devices, and verify vendor selections.
• Develop and support instrumentation cost estimates, schedules, and manpower loading for capital projects.
• Review vendor packages and develop integration strategies for plant control systems.
• Apply and support Fieldbus type and smart instrumentation systems where appropriate.
• Collaborate with process engineering to develop P&IDs, control narratives, and control strategies.
• Provide technical direction to contractors, designers, maintenance, and plant personnel, including oversight of outsourced engineering work.
• Manage instrumentation execution through engineering and construction while integrating plant stakeholders to meet operational needs.
• Ensure compliance with Solstice Engineering Standards, site-specific requirements, and plant standards.
• Support or lead development and revision of Instrumentation and Control SOPs.
• Ensure QA/QC requirements are defined and met for all capital installations.
• Apply electrical area classification standards (NFPA, IEC, etc.) and appropriate compliance methods (IS, purging, enclosures).
• Develop and review User Requirements Specifications (URS), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), and construction bid specifications.
• Participate in Process Hazard Analyses (PHA) and support functional safety reviews, including SIL and SIS applications.
• Maintain integrity of all instrumentation documentation, drawings, and control system records.
• Utilize AutoCAD (2D/3D), CADWorx, and other design tools to support detailed engineering.
• Drive value engineering, cost control, and continuous improvement within the instrumentation discipline.
• Prepare instrumentation estimate packages and construction work order packages.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, Instrumentation, or Controls Engineering with 8–10 years of experience in process control, instrumentation design, or engineering within an industrial manufacturing and/or engineering design environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, as required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Strong working knowledge of PIP, NEC, NFPA, IEC, API, and related codes and standards.
• Experience with SmartPlant / INtools or similar instrumentation databases.
• Proven ability to interface across disciplines (process, electrical, mechanical, project management).
• Experience working with Procurement and supporting vendor evaluations.
• Background in non-capital alternatives, value analysis, and optimization.
• Demonstrated leadership in safety culture and compliance.
• Experience in industrial chemical or petrochemical environments.
• Familiarity with SAP.
• Experience with commissioning, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, MOC, LOTO, and system testing.
• Working knowledge of networked control systems.
• Experience implementing and configuring PLC, DCS, and SCADA systems for batch and continuous processes.
• Knowledge of instrumentation materials of construction and UPS specification and sizing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification (or equivalent experience) preferred.
• Self-starter with strong ownership mindset, bias for action, and collaborative leadership style.

Benefits

• employer-subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• EAP and Educational Assistance
• Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave)
• 12 Paid Holidays