Nuclear Project Engineer

Education

Typically, an advanced degree and experience - PhD degree and about 15 years experience, MS degree and 17 years experience, BS degree and about 21 year’s experience.

Advisory Engineer —
Working Title:
Project Engineer

• Provide staff augmentation support to SRNS. Integrate and manage engineering activities for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and priorities.
• Provide project management tools and methods to assign projects and support development of future projects. Manage project tasks and deliver results for cost and schedule of those tasks.
• Engineering services shall be provided using SRNS processes and procedures. Programmatic guidance will be provided by SRNS.

The following experience is required for this position:

• Registered PE licensure in any state is strongly preferred.
• Providing overall engineering and design direction, leadership, and management for assigned projects and tasks.
• Integrating engineering resources for assigned projects by assisting in establishing design criteria, resource forecasts, schedules, and engineering tools for engineering tasks.
• Providing administrative guidance to leads and managers.
• Responsibilities for overall management, scheduling, and priority of the tasks and projects assigned.
• Managing the administration, document control, project controls, and quality engineering sections for all assigned projects through section supervisors.
• Resolving conflicts between project direction and technical direction from the functional managers.
• Participating in department and site-wide programmatic issues resolution and quality improvements.
• Responsibilities for creating a team through requesting, evaluating, and developing engineering expertise capable of achieving the objectives of the projects assigned.
• Evaluating tasks of subcontractors to ensure design output meets project technical, cost, and schedule objectives.
• Establishing baselines for design activities for all assigned projects and engineering work requests.
• Recommending to project managers, subcontractor authorizations for new work and changes to baselines.
• Evaluating project cost and schedule variances and implement corrective actions.
• Experience with EVMS tools.
• Reviewing cost accounts for procurement of engineered materials.
• Working with diverse teams to deliver results.
• Establishing projects’ scope of work including assuring that there are firm customer requirements developed.

• Candidate must be able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed. These walk-downs may involve construction sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances over a half mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, dressing out in protective clothing and environments where a respirator is required.
• Candidate must have the ability to produce quality documents with attention to detail and meeting management defined expectations.
• Candidate must have the ability to coordinate, interface, and communicate with management, engineering, facility, operations, quality assurance, and test personnel.
• Candidate must have the ability to communicate clear, concise, and accurate reports, evaluations, documents, procedures, reviews, comment resolutions, email, and oral presentations.
• Candidate must have the ability to mentor junior team members and develop their design knowledge.