Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Omega Technical Services supports mission-critical Department of Energy and Department of Defense projects, including advanced nuclear reactor development. The Mechanical Engineer will design, evaluate, document, and verify mechanical systems and components for a novel advanced reactor while ensuring compliance with engineering requirements, codes, standards, and safety bases. The role also supports fabrication, testing, configuration management, and reactor operations and experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers supporting the design of a novel advanced reactor
- Design and evaluate mechanical systems associated with advanced reactor structures, systems, and components
- Support the successful completion, implementation, and verification of engineering projects
- Design reactor vessels in accordance with the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, including high-temperature creep and fatigue considerations
- Design and evaluate high-temperature gaskets, seals, bolting, and related mechanical components
- Design and document electromechanical devices, including control rod and control drum drive mechanisms
- Prepare and maintain controlled engineering models, drawings, specifications, calculations, and design descriptions
- Verify that designs conform to established requirements and applicable codes and standards
- Translate project objectives into defined and controlled design requirements using a systems-engineering approach
- Apply digital engineering tools to track design requirements, interfaces, and technical parameters
- Use recognized engineering methodologies, technologies, and best practices to develop designs and verify that they satisfy defined requirements
- Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements to ensure that technical features important to system functions are maintained
- Oversee or otherwise verify that fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement activities are completed in accordance with approved designs
- Ensure designs satisfy technical baseline requirements and applicable codes, standards, and regulations
- Develop, evaluate, and maintain the technical baseline and configuration management for assigned systems
- Ensure consistency among applicable engineering and operational documents, including drawings, technical manuals, operating instructions, and emergency operating procedures
- Work with designers, customers, engineers, and analysts to establish experiment requirements and develop conceptual and final designs
- Support fabrication, inspection, experiment assembly, installation, and testing activities
- Support the development of integrated engineering analyses to demonstrate compliance with applicable facility safety bases
- Perform design, fabrication, and related engineering activities supporting reactor operations and experimentation
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Reactor Project Engineer or Engineering Manager
Skills
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a directly related field from an ABET-accredited program, plus at least eight years of relevant professional experience; or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a directly related field from an ABET-accredited program, plus at least six years of relevant professional experience
- Knowledge of mechanical system design and evaluation
- Knowledge of the ASME B31 series and ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
- Knowledge of engineering design techniques, tools, and principles used to produce technical plans, drawings, blueprints, models, specifications, and calculations
- Knowledge of mechanical engineering principles involving heat transfer, fluid flow, gas flow, material behavior, and system dynamics
- Knowledge of engineering principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment used to design and produce mechanical systems and components
- Ability to apply established engineering principles and requirements to complex technical problems
- Ability to analyze information from multiple sources and develop technically sound conclusions
- Ability to recognize existing or potential design, fabrication, and operational problems
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly through written documentation and verbal presentations
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and technical documentation
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities while meeting project schedules and quality requirements
- Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen
- Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Security Clearance
- Must be available to travel to the Materials and Fuels Complex as required
- Experience designing nuclear reactor systems, vessels, or related mechanical components
- Experience applying the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code to reactor vessel design
- Experience evaluating high-temperature creep and fatigue
- Experience designing high-temperature gaskets, seals, bolting, or similar mechanical components
- Experience designing electromechanical devices such as control rod or control drum drive mechanisms
- Experience applying systems-engineering principles and digital engineering tools
- Experience with engineering configuration management and technical baseline control
- Experience supporting fabrication, assembly, installation, inspection, and testing activities
- Experience supporting advanced reactor operations or experimentation
- Previous DOE/NNSA work experience
- Possession of an active DOE/DoD clearance within the past two (2) years is preferred
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Short and long term disability insurance
- 401(k) with a company match
- AD&D insurance
- Paid time off
- Holiday pay
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