Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a national laboratory conducting research in national security, energy, and scientific technology. The Production Design Engineer will support the Tritium Technology Program by organizing and executing TPBAR production design activities, maintaining design and analysis systems, coordinating with stakeholders and vendors, and providing leadership for nuclear engineering and NQA-1 quality tasks.
Responsibilities
- Successfully organize and execute TPBAR PD program activities
- Act as a delegate for the PD task manager as required
- Additional PD leadership responsibilities, as assigned
- Maintaining and improving the TPBAR design. This includes:
- Keeping a trained, certified PNNL workforce ready to support the TPBAR
- Updating a suite of calculations that demonstrate the TPBAR matches functional and design requirements
- Creating and maintaining the package of TPBAR drawings and component specifications that are used by a variety of manufacturers to build components
- Maintaining and improving the TPBAR component specifications ranging from raw material characteristics to mechanical property requirements
- Preparing experimental test plans to verify and improve the TPBAR design
- Working with vendors, fabricators, and commercial reactor staff to meet program needs
- Communicating effectively between TPBAR stakeholders, including commercial nuclear reactor staff that irradiate TPBARs, manufacturers that supply components for TPBAR fabrication, the fuel vendor supplying the reactor, key TTP staff at PNNL, the Tritium Technology Program (TTP) leadership at PNNL, and the sponsor, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Assuring the accuracy and quality of the analytic methods going into PD analysis including nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, manufacturing engineering, thermal hydraulics, and safety analysis including Loss of Coolant Accident (LOCA) analysis. In this role, the candidate will be expected to gain experience and provide leadership with nuclear engineering analyses and in organizing NQA-1 tasks to assure program quality
- Developing a comprehensive awareness of historical Post Irradiation Examination (PIE) and test activities, results, and conclusions
- Attending meetings and traveling, including weekly TTP management meetings, traveling to NNSA-sponsored meetings, and traveling to TTP partners such as the reactor, fuel vendor, and manufacturers
Skills
- BS/BA and 7+ years of relevant experience -OR-
- MS/MA and 5+ years of relevant experience -OR-
- PhD with 3+ year of relevant experience
- This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance
- Requirements: * U.S. Citizenship
- Significant experience with nuclear engineering, manufacturing, and materials
- Eligible for Q Clearance
Benefits
- Medical insurance for employees and their families
- Dental insurance for employees and their families
- Vision insurance for employees and their families
- Robust telehealth care options
- Several mental health benefits
- Free wellness coaching
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending accounts
- Basic life insurance
- Disability insurance (Research Associates excluded)
- Employee assistance program
- Business travel insurance
- Tuition assistance
- Relocation assistance
- Backup childcare
- Legal benefits
- Supplemental parental bonding leave
- Surrogacy and adoption assistance
- Fertility support
- Company-funded pension plan (Research Associates excluded)
- 401(k) savings plan with company match (Research Associates excluded)
- Employees may accrue up to 120 vacation hours per year
- Ten paid holidays per year
- Flexible work schedules
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