Senior or Lead Instrumentation & Controls Engineer - Industrial Market
Kiewit · Lenexa, KS
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Controls
- Experience asked
- 30+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 5 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management controls role at Kiewit (industrial) in Lenexa, KS.
- They ask for
- 30+ years
- Tools it names
- PLC, Automation
- Day to day
- relocation help
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Controls Engineer roles in Kansas: typical posted base $105k–$160k.
Median of the low and high ends of 3 live postings that list pay, out of 11 controls engineer openings in Kansas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Kansas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 10 other live controls postings in Kansas.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (30+ vs 4+)
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ PLC 91%
- ✓ Automation 82%
- Root cause 36%
- Team leadership 27%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Senior or Lead Instrumentation & Controls Engineer - Industrial Market
Location
Lenexa, KS, US
Omaha, NE, US
Lone Tree, CO, US
Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Industrial & Water Engineering
Department: Design Engineering
Market: Industrial
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
If you are viewing this position on other websites, including Linkedin, we recommend you apply to the role via at our website at www.kiewitjobs.com .
Kiewit’s Industrial & Water markets are experiencing rapid growth across North America, and we’re expanding our team with Senior Instrumentation & Controls Engineers who want to lead, innovate, and build systems that actually get constructed. This is a high‑impact role for engineers who thrive in EPC environments and want to shape the automation, control, and instrumentation strategies behind some of the most complex industrial facilities in the country.
You’ll work across all phases of design — from early feasibility and architecture development through detailed engineering, construction support, commissioning, and turnover. Our projects span Data Centers, Water/Wastewater Treatment, Mineral Processing, Industrial Energy, Renewable Fuels, Specialty Chemical, and Advanced Manufacturing . If you want variety, technical challenge, and career acceleration, this is the place.
Kiewit offers stability, competitive pay, unmatched benefits, employee ownership, and a backlog of work that ensures long‑term career growth. We build projects that strengthen communities — and we build careers that last.
District Overview
Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service engineering consulting and design firm serving a broad range of the industrial markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,700 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve the industrial, transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Our operations-focused engineering provides our clients with safe and efficient facilities, and it integrates our 130 years of construction experience to finish projects on time and to make sure that Nobody Gets Hurt.
Our rapidly growing Industrial Engineering team, which includes process, mechanical, electrical, controls, structural, architectural, geotechnical, and civil disciplines, is a multi-faceted and leading-edge division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on EPC and design-build delivery of industrial projects in markets such as Food & Beverage, Mineral Processing, Renewable Fuels, Pulp and Paper, Steel & Aluminum, Industrial Buildings, and Industrial Energy, Water and Utilities.
Location
This position is based out of Lenexa, Kansas, Omaha Nebraska, or Lone Tree, Colorado office and we offer relocation assistance to Lenexa, Kansas only. Some consideration may be made for other office locations in the US, near other major Kiewit offices.
Lead Engineering & Design
- •Perform engineering studies, feasibility analyses, and cost evaluations to guide client decisions.
- •Lead project discipline team, ensuring technical excellence and on‑schedule delivery.
- •Apply ISA, NFPA, NEC, API, ASME, and other relevant codes to produce compliant, constructible designs.
Drive Technical Execution
- •Administer and evaluate instrumentation and control equipment contracts, including DCS and PLC control systems.
- •Review OEM vendor packages for technical compliance and integration requirements.
- •Develop and manage I&C deliverables: Instrument Lists, Data Sheets, I/O Lists, Loop Drawings, Network Architecture, Cause & Effect Diagrams, and Control Narratives.
- •Review and manage I&C portions of P&IDs.
- •Apply a strong understanding of process and mechanical systems to effectively design and integrate I&C systems.
- •Ensure cybersecure network design by applying appropriate segmentation, access control, and secure communication practices for OT systems.
Support Construction & Commissioning
- •Respond to RFIs and field questions related to instrumentation, controls, operations, and startup.
- •Integrate with the startup and commissioning team to conduct field testing, troubleshooting, and turnover activities (up to 20% field travel).
- •Identify design constraints, propose solutions, and drive cost‑effective engineering decisions.
Collaborate & Innovate
- •Work closely with process, mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, and architectural teams.
- •Apply a strong understanding of process and mechanical systems to effectively design and integrat
