Senior Process/Chemical Engineer

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Senior Process/Chemical Engineer focusing on energy and nuclear facilities design. Responsible for architecture development, evaluations and compliance with safety regulations.

Responsibilities:

  • Develops and conceptualizes system architecture, flow diagrams, and piping/instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) for nuclear facilities, auxiliary systems, or fuel cycle models
  • Performs rigorous evaluations to ensure that systems, structures and components maintain chemical safety, criticality controls, radiation shielding, and defense-in-depth principles under normal and off-normal conditions, including accident scenarios
  • Ensures that all engineering designs align with local, state, and federal standards, including DOE or NRC regulations
  • You select, test, and specify mechanical components, valves, and vessels to ensure they withstand highly regulated and hazardous environments
  • Evaluates test or validation data to improve the efficiency of existing nuclear facilities
  • Develops key design deliverables such as Process drawings, Process Flow Diagrams, and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams/Engineering Flow Diagrams
  • Prepares, checks and/or approves calculations including mass, energy, and flow balances, and pipe and equipment sizing
  • Prepares engineering documents such as specifications for process equipment
  • Ensures that design deliverables are of a high standard and compliant with relevant standards, regulations, and customer specific standards, including nuclear quality assurance standards
  • Ensures that design consultants and sub-contractors deploy suitably qualified and experienced personnel
  • Produces documentation that is technically accurate, grammatically correct, correctly formatted and professionally presented
  • Develops resolutions to complex problems or technical issues and ensure necessary change control is implemented
  • Works independently receiving only minimal guidance
  • May act as a resource for other colleagues with less experience
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or related field
  • Minimum of five (5) years post-baccalaureate experience
  • Previous experience providing engineering support to nuclear facility design, construction or operations
  • Strong communication skills in a challenging, multi-tiered environment
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Knowledge of key NRC regulations, design codes and standards for commercial nuclear facilities required
  • Knowledge in the use of related design software codes, including process simulation software
  • Professional Engineering (PE) License preferred
  • Design of Commercial and Department of Energy nuclear reactor projects
  • Design of Commercial and Department of Energy nuclear fuel cycle facilities
  • Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) experience
  • Must be a U.S. citizen in order to be considered.

Benefits:

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits
  • employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • Paid Time Off
  • leaves of absences options
  • flexible work options
  • recognition and employee satisfaction programs
  • employee assistance program
  • voluntary benefits