Senior Nuclear Engineer – Safety Analysis

Responsibilities

• Developing, maintaining and executing the in-house methodologies for Duke Energy’s PWR fleet related to the computer simulations of the containment response during transient and accidents
• Performing a variety of complex transient thermal hydraulic simulations and analysis for all PWR Duke Energy reactors
• Performing analyses to determine containment temperature and pressure response to postulated pipe breaks using NRC approved codes and plant models
• Preparing thorough and accurate calculation files, technical reports and correspondence
• Developing, qualifying, and maintaining computer codes used in safety analysis
• Collaborating/interface with internal, industry, vendor, and regulatory personnel
• Participating in technical training activities
• Working with Regulatory Compliance to create and/or review Licensing Amendment Requests (LAR) packages
• Developing and help license improved Safety Analysis methods which improve thermal margin and/or provide plant operational margins

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program
• A Master 's degree in engineering will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• 4-6 years of engineering experience
• Minimum of 1 year of nuclear experience
• Fundamentals of Engineering Certificate and/or Professional Engineer (PE) license (preferred)
  Experience with safety analysis codes, (e.g. RETRAN, RELAP, and GOTHIC, and/or equivalents)
• Experience with nuclear fuel and PWR safety analysis
• Familiarity with the basic systems of a Westinghouse or B&W NSSS reactor
• Experience with development and support of License Amendment Requests and 50.59 Evaluations
• Unix and/or Linux workstation experience
• Computer programming experience (FORTRAN/Python/VBA/etc.)
• Knowledge in thermal hydraulic calculations – heat transfer, flow modeling, single failure analysis, NPSH analysis, etc.