Tech Lead - I&C Systems & Hardware

Job Description Summary

Lead and mentor team responsible for developing and maintaining analog and digital control systems to enable next generation Small Modular Reactor nuclear power plants to operate safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Focus on work planning, technical approach, design assurance, and execution excellence.

• Lead preparation of high throughput work planning, scheduling, and resource loading across lifecycle phases of Engineer-Procure-Construct or new product introduction using the applicable practices, guides, and tools.
• Support project engineering or manager with understanding execution metric and status, issues, risks, mitigation or recovering plans, and be extremely proactive to identify changes in scope.
• Drive compliance utilizing scope, detailed work planning, budget, overall schedule, applicable design processes, and discipline specific practices and tools including design and technical reviews.
• Lead “day-to-day” operations and follow-up to ensure deliverables are produced and commitments met on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule.
• Coordinate proactively and inclusively for overall team across other engineering disciplines to support integrated plant design objectives.
• Identify, confirm, document, and lead resolution of technical, risk, other emergent issues. Collaborate with project management, project engineering, support functions, and others to drive project completion.
• Provide technical oversight and mentorship to ensure system designs and deliverables comply with requirements throughout design release to manufacturing or supplier including production, validation, installation, and commissioning tests.
• Assist with hosting learning sessions, knowledge capture, and transfer initiatives. Support strategy, plan, statement of work preparation, and implementation of resource loading.
• Use variety of tools for requirements, design, change, configuration, and document management.
• Champion nuclear safety culture;
  Ensure compliance with GEH policies, quality management system, and corrective action program.
• Deliver work with safety, security, quality, and on-time output.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics or equivalent 4-year technical degree
• Minimum of 10 years of application, field installation, and test engineering of systems, equipment, and components including selection and qualification to diverse industry standards
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in commercial nuclear industry working in plant instrumentation application, control and monitoring system hardware design, including implementation, test, installation, and commissioning
• Minimum of 5 years of experience performing independent, or preferably team based, system design or technical reviews including interfacing with requirements management, independent verification and validation

• Relocation to Wilmington, NC is required.
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

• Competency in industry standards IEEE, IEC, IPC, and Nuclear quality standards.
• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, electric power system and field engineering.
• Systems engineering experience. Requirements creation and management through plant commissioning.
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced, and a results-oriented analyst and leader.
• Proven track record of delivering commitments on specification, on budget, and on schedule.
• Strong verbal communication, as well as, facilitation and presentation skills for technical and business audiences – Able to communicate openly, calmly, and crisply in stressful situations.
• Continuous improvement mindset with an ability to identify, influence, and implement better ways to do an activity or process.
  Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness.
• Solid technical writing skills with…