Engineering firm designing and upgrading power generation, transmission, and nuclear infrastructure
Sargent & Lundy is a 1,891-founded architect-engineer with 1,000+ employees focused on power, energy, and decarbonization projects across nuclear, renewable, fossil, and grid modernization. The firm is rapidly scaling engineering talent (1,851 of 1,950 active roles) while adopting IoT and SCADA systems in place of legacy PLC/DCS infrastructure—a pattern matching their stated challenge of digitizing legacy power plant controls and modernizing nuclear facilities. Active projects cluster around nuclear uprates, electrical system upgrades, and new substations, indicating heavy execution demand across both new-build and retrofit work.
Sargent & Lundy delivers full-service engineering and architecture for power and energy infrastructure. The firm handles the complete project lifecycle: consulting, design, engineering, construction management, commissioning, and operations/maintenance. Clients span public utilities, private power operators, and government agencies across power generation, transmission, distribution, nuclear, renewable, and industrial sectors. The company operates from Chicago with a U.S.-based workforce and maintains deep expertise in nuclear power, grid modernization, wind/solar, energy storage, carbon capture, and hydrogen—positioning it for long-cycle utility and decarbonization work.
Primary tools: AutoCAD, MicroStation, ANSYS, PSCAD, PSS/E, PowerWorld, ETAP, SAP2000, Civil 3D, ArcGIS. The firm is actively adopting IoT and SCADA while phasing out legacy PLC and DCS systems.
Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1891, the firm is privately held with 1,001–5,000 employees and hires exclusively in the United States.
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