Engineering Technical Specialist - PRA; Innsbrook

Overview

Dominion Energy is committed to providing reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy that powers our customers every day. If you want to work for a purpose-driven company that values safety and collaboration, we’re looking for you. You won’t just find a job here; you’ll find your career. Review the position below and apply today.

We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E3-E5, W1-W2, or O1-O3, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity.

At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

Job Summary:

Dominion Energy has an opportunity available to join the Probabilistic Risk Assessment group at Innsbrook Technical Center in Glen Allen, VA as an Engineering Technical Specialist I. This role is the entry or developmental level in the Engineering Technical Specialist series.

PRA is part of the Nuclear Safety Engineering (NSE) organization in the Nuclear Analysis and Fuels & Regulatory Assurance (NAFRA) department. PRA has responsibility for developing, maintaining, and applying probabilistic risk models to support Dominion Energy’s nuclear plants in Virginia, Connecticut, and South Carolina. The PRA models are designed to evaluate plant response in the event of an accident at a nuclear power station.

They account for the design of plant systems and the responses of plant operators to potential accidents to evaluate the importance of systems and components to plant risk. Risk insights are used to improve safety and efficiency of plant operations and maintenance.

PRA Job Responsibilities Include

• PRA Modeling - Use industry software to maintain PRA model files in accordance with the ASME/ANS PRA Standard;
• PRA Electrical Analysis - Circuit analysis, cable routing, failure mode analysis;
• Fire PRA Development - Development and refinement of Fire PRA models;
• PRA Applications - Perform analysis using the PRA models to support regulatory and elective risk-informed programs and applications (Maintenance Rule, NFPA 805, Significance Determination Process, Mitigating Systems Performance Index, etc.);
• PRA Documentation - Document model changes, supporting analyses, and PRA applications to efficiently and effectively establish model bases;
• PRA Project Management - Lead and manage PRA projects that involve multiple engineers and interface with multiple departments;
• PRA Software Testing - Perform testing and validation of new code versions and new software packages;
• Organizational Interface - Interface with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, IT, and other departments
• Additional
  
  Position Responsibilities:
• Performs routine to moderate work assignments designed to develop professional engineering technology work knowledge, technical skills and experience within the functional area or specific engineering discipline necessary to progress to the fully functional intermediate level. This role does not function as a technician in modifying, operating or maintaining systems or equipment.
• Provides technical support and assistance in analyzing and evaluating systems, equipment and programs.
• Plans and conducts work and assists in the evaluation, selection, adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria.
• Assists with devising new approaches to problems encountered and in developing engineering criteria ensuring compliance with design criteria and standards.
• Implements technology within an engineering field.
• Focuses on the practical application of engineering theories; determines how to make the designs and plans of engineers work.
• Applies basic scientific and engineering principles and methods, along with technical skills, to support engineering activities.
• May perform product improvement, testing, field engineering, development, manufacturing, construction, systems development, quality control, and operational engineering.
• May perform some design and theoretical work, but does not…