Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Protingent Staffing is offering a contract opportunity for a Fuel Handling Mechanical Design Engineer. The role designs nuclear fuel handling equipment and components from requirements development through final design, manufacturing, and commissioning, while providing technical leadership across system design, testing, documentation, supplier coordination, and licensing support.
Responsibilities
- Design of nuclear fuel handling equipment, and fuel handling components from requirements development through final design, manufacturing and commissioning
- Provides a wide range of support for the design of fuel handling equipment
- Completes designs of equipment, processes and components by applying engineering and scientific principles
- Complete design through calculations, developing drawings, using and writing software and commercially available engineering tools
- Productive in following engineering procedures to conduct and document design work
- Productively writes technical reports detailing the design work
- May coordinate interdepartmental activities and/or research efforts
- Presents results of design for reviews
- Oversees and leads technical areas within projects, i.e. equipment owner or system lead
- 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 and non-nuclear related design standards
- Analyze and allocate regulatory criteria and standards to complex mechanical and process system design
- Interface with the 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, assembly drawings and design drawings
- 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
- Provide technical direction and oversight of supplier projects, working with the contract administrator to ensure delivery of data and other deliverables, as well as coordination and performance of technical reviews of deliverables
- Establish and maintain system requirements and specification documents, such as Engineering Design Specifications for major plant equipment
- Propose and initiate testing programs for plant system qualification, as needed
- Provide Support and oversight during test execution, evaluation of test results, and reporting of test results
- Generate design package for systems, sub-systems, and equipment designs including coordination of calculations, design reports, mechanical drawings, and engineering design specifications
- Develop and review technical design documents, such as Design Basis Documents, 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 and refined
Skills
- B.S. in Mechanical or related discipline from an accredited university, or equivalent experience
- 6-15 years direct experience with proven mechanical equipment design skills
- Demonstrated experience in the design of complex mechanical structures and equipment, experience with nuclear fuel handling equipment a plus
- Experience in ASME BPVC, Section III, Division 1 and/or Section VIII
- Experience with remote tooling design and/or hot cell design/operations
- Previous experience with nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel handling process systems, or similar high-performance system or equipment design is required
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills
- Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence
- Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead 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
- Travel Required: 0-5%
- Location: Bellevue, WA or 100% remote
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status
- Experience in high temperature and multi-discipline integration, highly desired
Benefits
- Insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan)
- Education/certification reimbursement
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- An administered 401k plan
- 100% remote work option
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