Nuclear Maintenance Engineer

Our client is seeking a highly motivated Engineer to design and deliver nuclear maintenance casks and their support equipment for client’s Natrium reactor. In this role, you will work within the Fuel Handling group alongside other systems design groups on development, fabrication, and delivery of nuclear maintenance equipment.

The successful candidate will integrate and coordinate with engineers working on interfacing systems. The Nuclear Maintenance Equipment Engineer will report to the NME Lead and Ex-Vessel Fuel Handling Manager and will work as part of a high-performing team of engineers and scientists.

Responsibilities:

• Design of nuclear maintenance equipment systems from requirements through final design, with a focus on operational aspects of the systems
• Create operational narratives for nuclear maintenance equipment and systems
• Create diagrams for equipment and systems
• Support the development of automated control systems and equipment
• Provide system design and operational input to and perform reviews of analyses, such as thermal, seismic, structural, heat transfer, and other analyses performed by others.
• Identify and ensure effective application of correct design codes into the design of plant systems such as ASME, ANS, ASTM, IEEE, NFPA, etc.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers in applicable nuclear related design and operations standards.
• Analyze and allocate regulatory criteria and standards to complex mechanical and process system design.
• Work with the vendor design team to create and manage drawing packages of system designs, including but not limited to Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), 3D models, and system interface drawings.
• Oversee fabrication and delivery activities for maintenance equipment such as casks, floor valves, adapters, and support equipment.
• Interface with design disciplines (such as mechanical, instrumentation and controls, civil, and nuclear) to identify and develop plant design information and specify system design and performance criteria.
• Work with the vendor team and interface with internal design stakeholders in establishing and maintaining system requirements and specification documents
• Recommend testing programs for plant system qualification, as needed.
• Generate documents as a part of the design packages for systems, sub-systems, and equipment designs.
• Develop (and review vendor) technical design documents, such as Design Descriptions, Interface Control Documents, Engineering Design Specifications, etc.
• Interface with and support licensing activities associated with Safety Analysis Reports.
• Support design reviews as plant system and subsystem designs are established.

Key Qualifications and Skills:

• B.S. in Engineering or related discipline from an accredited university
• 6+ years work experience with proven mechanical system design and operations skills.
• Demonstrated experience in the design and operation of complex mechanical systems, structures and equipment, particularly nuclear fuel handling systems.
• Previous experience with nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel handling or nuclear maintenance process systems, or similar high-performance system or equipment design is required.
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Current or previously qualified nuclear plant operator (EOOW, SRO, STE, or similar) is highly desired
• Experience with radiological controls at nuclear power plants is highly desired
• Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence.
• Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to contribute to a design team’s effort with minimal direction.
• Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives.
• Ability to work on simultaneous tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
• Experience working to quality standards on design activities, such as ASME NQA-1 or ISO 9001.
• The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
• Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.