Safety Basis Analyst ; All Shifts

What You Will Do

As part of the Safety Basis Division (SB) of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) you will work within a multidisciplinary team performing documented safety analyses and other safety basis documentation. SB is responsible for providing qualified regulatory and safety basis support resources to various Laboratory organizations for meeting compliance requirements. You will initiate, lead planning, and evaluate changes in safety basis for operational, mission, construction, and major modification needs.

You will also evaluate changes at nuclear facilities in compliance with DOE orders and guides. This function is primarily concerned with safety analysis associated with facility‑specific systems and operations.

This work requires gaining experience in mission, operations and design of facilities assigned in order to update or develop new SB documents. In this role you will develop relationships with facility and/or project management in order to ensure facility mission and schedules are met and provide guidance on implementation of Safety Basis documents. You will also develop studies and perform other tasks as assigned by Safety Basis Division Management.

This position will be filled at either the Safety Basis Analyst 3 or Safety Basis Analyst 4 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

Perform documented safety analyses and other safety basis documentation, providing qualified regulatory and safety basis support resources to various Laboratory organizations for meeting compliance requirements. Initiate, lead planning and evaluate changes in safety basis for operational/mission needs, construction projects and major modifications. Evaluate changes at nuclear facilities in compliance with DOE orders and guides. Provide interpretation of plant processes for safety basis impact from schematics, procedures, verbal and written descriptions;

perform qualitative and quantitative hazard analyses, fault‑tree and event‑tree analyses of complex engineered systems; quantify significant accident sequences; and perform consequence analyses and unreviewed safety questions determinations.

In addition to what was outlined at the lower level, work with nuclear and non‑nuclear facility systems and accepted methods for mitigation of risk from hazardous materials or facilities. Perform documented safety analyses and other safety basis documentation, providing qualified regulatory and safety basis support resources to various Laboratory organizations for meeting compliance requirements. Lead and perform nuclear and non‑nuclear risk and hazard analyses to ensure safe operation of nuclear and non‑nuclear facilities.

Provide procedural direction for development and implementation of safety basis documentation. Lead and perform hazard identification; facility hazard categorization; accident analysis; selection of controls; and development of associated safety basis documents including un‑reviewed safety question determination; technical safety requirements; safety assessment documents; facility safety plans and analysis.

• Provide nuclear and non‑nuclear risk and hazard analyses for facilities, associated support equipment, and functional specifications and operations to control or eliminate hazards.
• Initiate and lead planning and evaluating changes in safety basis for operational/mission needs, construction projects and major modifications.
• Independently assemble input values, execute and interpret results for multiple safety analysis computer codes.
• Apply knowledge and understanding of laboratory processes, structures, systems, and components to application of required safety basis principles.
• Provide input to federal and state regulators through industry groups for the writing and revision of regulations.
• Develop and review detailed fire environmental dispersion, particulate transport and release, fire, and chemical dispersion calculations to defend control selection for documented safety analysis (DSA).
• Understand and…