Lead Instrumentation & Control Engineer

What Vista Does

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

Why We Do It

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

Where We Work

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. We are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

What You Would Do in This Role

The Lead Instrumentation & Control Engineer oversees a team responsible for designing various aspects of energy industry projects from inception to completion. Key responsibilities include:

• Project Planning and Management:
  • Develop and manage scopes of work, man-hour estimates, schedules, and priorities for projects or proposals.
  • Plan, allocate, and review work programs, ensuring alignment with project demands and timely updates to Vista’s platforms (e.g., ForecastWeb).
  • Prepare weekly progress reports detailing completed work, upcoming tasks, and discipline-specific needs.
  • Update project schedules weekly, marking task statuses and identifying potential delays, in coordination with Project Management.
• Team Leadership and Supervision:
  • Supervise and mentor the engineering team throughout the design and development phases, providing expertise and direction on engineering solutions.
  • Assign and review the work of discipline engineering staff, ensuring adherence to quality standards and project requirements.
• Technical Expertise and Design Oversight:
  • Guide the design and delivery of complex engineering projects, ensuring compliance with applicable codes, Vista, and client specifications.
  • Review vendor or subcontractor quotations, drawings, and specifications for technical adequacy and conformance with project requirements.
  • Approve discipline deliverables and support the development, implementation, and maintenance of design standards, checklists, and procedures.
• Client and Stakeholder Coordination:
  • Attend status meetings with clients, project management, and suppliers to coordinate activities and address project needs.
  • Communicate changes to work plans or resourcing needs through change management processes to project stakeholders.
• Quality and Compliance Assurance:
  • Ensure adherence to Vista's Quality Management System (QMS) and maintain current knowledge of industry and regulatory standards.
  • Authenticate documentation with a professional engineering stamp as required.
• Instrumentation and Control Design:
  • Prepare P&ID inputs and instrument selection.
  • Develop and review instrument indexes, datasheets, and sizing for instruments, F&G, and analyzers.
  • Create and review I/O lists, instrument wiring drawings, loop diagrams, and UPS load requirements.
  • Design PLC and fiber optic panels, control system architecture, and prepare related specifications and design criteria.
  • Prepare and review shutdown keys, cause and effect diagrams, control narratives, and philosophies.
  • Develop engineering work packages and review instrument location and wiring drawings.
• Construction and Vendor Support:
  • Provide technical support to vendors for DCS/SIS/FG panel design and fabrication, as well as mechanical/electrical equipment.
  • Offer construction support and assist in the negotiation of critical engineering issues.

Requirements  

• Ten-plus years of progressive experience in facilities engineering and design in the energy industry.
• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in engineering or applied science.
• Ability to work and collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and designers including process, mechanical, civil, structural & architectural, electrical, instrumentation & controls and piping.
• P.Eng. registration with APEGA.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, technical competence and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and efficient with time management.
• Strong working knowledge and understanding of applicable codes and industry standards.
• Ability to meet safety requirements to attend site visits.

Preferred

• 12 years or more of experience as a fully qualified engineer, with five years’ experience in the energy industry.
• Three or more years of experience leading an engineering team in an EPC environment.

Why People Like Working with Us

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the type of challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus, and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

What We Offer

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

Vista offers all employees

• A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
• A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
• An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
• A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
• Company-sponsored social events and team sports
• Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
• An organization that values and encourages diversity

How to Apply

Please complete the application form below and include a cover letter concisely demonstrating how your skills and experience align with our job posting. By submitting this application, you consent to our  Privacy Policy , and you consent to receive transactional electronic messages from Vista and third parties acting on our behalf.

Note:  As part of the interview process there may be a technical testing component that will take up to two hours and can be completed at home on your own timeline. Candidates may be required to complete a security clearance procedure prior to receiving an offer.