Chemical Decontamination Process Engineer

Job Description/Tasks/Responsibilities

The Chemical Decontamination Process Engineer is an onsite position at Three Mile Island Unit 2 which provides technical and project-management support for the operation of the chemical decontamination plant. The position is responsible for coordinating the mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and chemical-process aspects of the system, with support from appropriate discipline specialists. The engineer reports to the chemical decontamination manager and develops and manages processing schedules, maintenance plans, throughput forecasts, and material logistics.

The position also ensures that incoming materials, process effluents, and decontaminated materials meet established acceptance criteria and that operating activities are technically sound, properly planned, and aligned with production objectives.

• Provide integrated technical support for operations of a chemical decontamination plant, including mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, and chemical-process systems.
• Evaluate operating data, troubleshoot equipment and process issues, coordinate technical support, and develop solutions that improve safety, reliability, throughput, and process effectiveness.
• Plan and manage processing activities, including production schedules, throughput forecasts, maintenance windows, equipment availability, staffing assumptions, material sequencing, and coordination of work needed to meet operating commitments.
• Manage the flow of material through the decontamination process, including verification that incoming material meets system acceptance criteria, prioritization and logistics of backlog material, coordination of staging and movement, and resolution of conditions that could prevent or delay processing.
• Administer product and effluent acceptance requirements, including criteria for process liquids, generated wastes, released materials, and decontaminated components.
• Support equipment reliability and maintenance execution, including preventive and corrective maintenance planning, work-package development, troubleshooting, spare-parts needs, vendor coordination, outage planning, and evaluation of maintenance impacts on production.
• Maintain technical and project controls, including schedules, performance metrics, operating plans, material inventories, risk and issue logs, technical documentation, procedures, system drawings, and status reporting.
• Lead or support process changes and equipment modifications required to sustain or improve operations.
• Maintain the plant procedure set, ensuring operating, maintenance, sampling, material-handling, and abnormal-condition procedures remain accurate, current with plant configuration and requirements, incorporate operating experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, nuclear, electrical, systems, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated knowledge of industrial chemical-process systems, including pumps, tanks, piping, valves, filtration, ventilation, instrumentation, controls, material handling, and chemical treatment operations.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical work and translating engineering, maintenance, material, regulatory, and operating requirements into executable production plans.
• Ability to evaluate operating data, material characterization information, process chemistry, equipment condition, and acceptance criteria to make technically sound recommendations.
• Strong project-management, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage schedules, competing priorities, interfaces, risks, and technical documentation.

Work is primarily performed onsite in an industrial…