System Engineer

What You Will Do

Are you a talented and driven engineer looking to develop, maintain, and apply a diverse set of engineering capabilities to provide innovative engineering solutions? Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is seeking a skilled professional to join our Engineering Services (ES) Division as a Systems Engineer. As a vital member of the ES Division you will contribute to the implementation of the Conduct of Engineering (COE) program at LANL in support of systems, structure and component modifications and new installations, as well as supporting existing systems, modifications and customers occupying the facilities.

If you're eager to support the Laboratory's scientific and national security mission, this opportunity is for you!

This position supports the Weapons Facilities Operations (WFO) portfolio consisting of nuclear, accelerator and non-nuclear facilities, spanning half of the laboratory's footprint. As a Systems 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.

Note:

This position will be filled at either the Engineer 1/Engineer 2 level depending on the skills and/or experience of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

As a Systems 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. Your day-to-day functions in this role are:

• Obtain, evaluate and compare equipment selections from manufacturer's representatives
• Provide control and maintenance of the technical baseline of the facility equipment while ensuring facility system configuration is being managed effectively using a risk-based graded approach
• Assist in defining maintenance requirements involving corrective maintenance and the tracking and trending of system performance, provide information for preventative maintenance scheduling, and perform regular facility system walkdowns and Facility Health Reports
• Review design outputs for impact to technical baseline and Master Equipment Lists (MEL), and control and maintain the MEL for assigned facilities
• Coordinate with Pressure Safety Officer (PSO) on facility pressure safety systems
• Review Integrated Work Documents (IWDs), provide technical interface to existing facility systems and components, and support configuration management
• Be a source of expert knowledge of assigned facilities and facility safety documentation, and navigate and implement prevailing industry codes and standards
• 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

In addition to duties listed above, the level 2 role includes the following job duties:

• Develop skills to independently run all engineering facets of a project from scoping to construction to sustainment
• Foster relationships with project stakeholders and customers as a representative of Engineering Services
• Facilitate technical growth of the engineering team

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• Engineering principles and procedures, design guides, appropriate standards, and administrative practices
• Engineering systems and calculations, applications of engineering methods, and application of technology aided engineering tools to conventional facility and operations-based engineering problems
• Engineering work planning and control methods, maintenance techniques and construction techniques
• Project and process engineering practices

Additional requirements at the higher level:

• Recognized broad and/or unique knowledge of facility engineering systems, processes, and calculations; application of facility engineering methods; and application of technology aided nuclear facility engineering tools to nuclear facility engineering problems
• Thorough knowledge of:
• Engineering principles and procedures, guides, appropriate standards, and administrative practices
• Engineering work planning and control methods and engineering maintenance techniques and construction methodologies
• Industry, regulatory, or Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) complex codes, standards, and criteria pertinent to the facility engineering discipline

Education/Experience at Engineer 1:
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