Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. System One is a provider of outsourced services and workforce solutions. The company is seeking a Control Rod Drive Test Engineer/Mechanical to support control rod drive mechanism design and deployment through vendor testing oversight, test planning, instrumentation, and testing system integration. The role also coordinates multidisciplinary teams, develops requirements and procedures, and supports testing in a large sodium test facility.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary test engineer supporting the control rod drive mechanism design and deployment, with an emphasis on vendor testing oversight, test planning and testing system interface and design
- Coordinate component vendor engineers working on requirements, systems, components, and testing plans for control rod drives
- Ensure the test facility is appropriately designed to execute its testing mission for the control rod drive mechanism
- Develop, maintain, and refine plant level and system level requirement and specification documents
- Support digital design tools and configuration management processes
- Lead and support design reviews and resolution of cross functional technical concerns
- Design instrumentation for testing, including data acquisition hardware and software
- Develop and document test plans, test designs, and procedures for experiments in the large sodium test facility
- Coordinate work across multiple teams to produce integrated deliverables
- Ensure smooth flow of information between design engineers and test engineers
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- Experience in laboratory or industrial environments
- Experience designing and integrating data acquisition and control systems
- Experience writing test plans, requirements, and procedures
- Experience with post-processing and documenting experiments
- Hands-on laboratory work experience including analytical methods, glovebox work, and standard lab practices
- Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams to develop novel testing approaches and equipment
- Strong analytical, planning, and project management skills
- Knowledge of configuration management principles and design control tools applied to complex industrial applications
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills
- Self-starter with ability to coordinate and lead a team with minimal direction
- At least 5 years of test engineering experience preferred
- Vendor test engineering oversight experience preferred
- Experience working with high temperature alkali metals in a laboratory environment highly desired
- Nuclear experience and working under a certified NQA-1 program preferred but not required
Benefits
- Remote – offsite
- Eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans
- Participation in a 401(k) plan
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