Requirements Management Engineer (R&D Engineer 2​/3

What You Will Do

The Product Realization and Reliability Office (PRRO) in Nuclear Production Operations consists of a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists that support plutonium programs (i.e., pit production, surveillance, research & development, and subcritical experiments) across the entire Nuclear Production Operations organization. PRRO is seeking a Requirements Management Engineer to support the selection, implementation, and usage of a requirements management system (RMS) for a highly complex, highly regulated manufacturing environment.

This role will focus on establishing requirements traceability from stakeholder requirements through design, manufacturing, verification, and validation. You will work across engineering, manufacturing, and quality organizations to support requirements engineering practices and enable integration between the RMS and other enterprise systems (PLM, document management, manufacturing systems, etc.). This position will primarily be office work with intermittent trips to the shop floor to support requirements gathering and validation activities.

• Supporting the deployment and configuration of the requirements management system to meet organizational needs
• Developing and maintaining requirements traceability structures that connect stakeholder requirements to design, test, and as-built verification evidence
• Supporting engineering teams in creating, linking, and managing requirements within the RMS
• Co-developing policies and procedures for requirements management practices and data standards
• Designing and implementing interfaces between the RMS and other enterprise systems (PLM, digital thread, document management)
• Providing technical support to Nuclear Production workforce in using requirements management tools and methodologies
• Coordinating training development and delivering training on RMS usage and requirements engineering best practices
• Creating and maintaining documentation for requirements management processes, workflows, and system configurations
• Monitoring RMS performance and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement
• Supporting participation in industry standards activities relevant to requirements management

Minimum

Job Requirements:

• Demonstrated knowledge of change and configuration management
• Experience planning and executing projects of low to moderate complexity
• Experience creating and using engineering models in at least two domains (mCAD, eCAD, MBSE, FEA, Requirements etc.)
• Strong documentation skills; demonstrated ability to document technical results in a formal method/format
• Experience with requirements engineering principles including requirements decomposition, allocation, and traceability
• Experience creating and managing requirements in at least one domain (systems, software, hardware, manufacturing, test)
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills
• Strong presentation skills

• Experience implementing or administering requirements management tools
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain requirements traceability across complex projects
• Experience working with a formal change management process
• Experience planning and executing projects of moderate to high complexity
• Demonstrable history of successful project and task execution in teams of at least 4 people
• Demonstrable history of teaming across organizational boundaries on complex projects

The work location for this position is fully onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management.

Regular appointment employees are required to serve a period of continuous service in their current position in order to be eligible to apply for posted jobs throughout the Laboratory. If an employee has not served the time required, they may only apply for Laboratory jobs with the documented approval of their Division Leader. The position commitment for this position is 1 year.

Position requires a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an accredited institution and 4 years of…