Electrical System Engineer

Position: Electrical System Engineer 3/4

What You Will Do

The Engineering Services Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) develops, maintains, and applies a diverse set of engineering capabilities to provide innovative engineering solutions that enable the Laboratory's scientific and national security mission. This position is within the Engineering Services Division Office (ES-DO). ES Groups are responsible for implementing the Conduct of Engineering (COE) program at Los Alamos National Laboratory in support of systems, structure and component modifications and new installations.

As well as supporting existing systems, modifications and customers occupying the facilities.

As a System Electrical Engineer you will support the Weapons Facilities Operations (WFO) portfolio consisting of nuclear, accelerator and non-nuclear facilities, spanning half of the laboratory's footprint. As a facilities system engineer in this area, you will directly support facilities with a direct impact on LANL's stockpile stewardship mission. Daily tasks include but are not limited to response to emerging facility issues, configuration management including facility technical baseline management, electrical/pressure safety support, reviewing designs for facility modification and providing system health reporting.

This position will be filled at either the Nuclear Facilities Engineer 3/4 level, depending on the skills and experience of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

System Electrical Engineer Level 3

As a System Engineer with Engineering Services, you will serve as the owner's representative for engineering for your assigned facilities. You will concurrently interface with design teams, maintenance, and operations, shaping LANL's facilities and infrastructure to serve the needs of a growing and changing portfolio. The level 3 role includes the following job opportunities:

Electrical Safety Officer (ESO) Responsibilities

• Support WFO as the lead Electrical Safety Officer (ESO)
• Conduct Arc-flash calculations
• Thorough knowledge of NFPA 70E

Facility Configuration and Equipment Management

• Provide control and maintenance of the technical baseline of the facility equipment
• Ensure that facility system configuration is being managed effectively using a risk-based graded approach
• Follow the LANL Conduct of Engineering (CoE) Program in support of facility modifications and facility configuration management in accordance with the LANL Engineering Standards Manual (ESM), LANL Administrative Procedures (Aps), LANL Master Specifications, and related Codes and Standards
• Review design outputs for impact to technical baseline and master equipment lists
• Control and maintain the master equipment list (MEL) for assigned facilities
• Support configuration management

Maintenance and System Performance

• Assist in defining maintenance requirements involving corrective maintenance and the tracking and trending of system performance
• Provide information for preventative maintenance schedule
• Perform regular facility system walkdowns and Facility Health Reports

Coordination and Mentorship

• Coordinate with Pressure Safety Officer (PSO) on facility pressure safety systems
• Mentor lower-level System Engineers
• Provide technical interface to existing facility systems and components

General Expertise

• Review IWDs
• Source of expert knowledge of assigned facilities

System Electrical Engineer 4

In Addition to the requirements outlined above, qualification at the higher level requires:

Nuclear Facility Engineering Expertise

• Extensive knowledge and experience in nuclear facility engineering processes, maintenance techniques, work planning and control development, Quality, Safety Basis and other Nuclear Facility safety management programs
• Demonstrated experience working with industry, regulatory, or Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) complex codes, standards, and criteria pertinent to the nuclear facility engineering discipline
• Expert knowledge of nuclear facility engineering principles and procedures, guides, and administrative practices

Technical Baseline and Reporting

• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated technical experience in preparing and reviewing technical reports and studies as part of establishing and maintaining Technical Baseline for new and existing facility structural systems
• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated technical experience in defining and collecting metrics on the usage, process, safety, and other parameters of interest for the structure, system, or components

Design and Analysis

• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated technical experience in defining or establishing design or analysis tasks and prepare design concepts that meet both the regulatory and performance requirements for systems and equipment
• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated technical experience in developing design details, design or analysis calculations, load studies, specifications, and special inspections…