Hardware Engineer

Job Description Summary

Services Instrumentation and Controls C10 / C35.6 Instrumentation and Controls hardware engineer is responsible for designing and manufacturing of Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) equipment that control safety critical functions for the BWRX-300 Small Module Reactor. This role will be highly integrated with our vendors and will be focused on quickly ramping up suppliers to meet production schedule for new product line of PCB hardware.

The role requires technical problem solving, requirements management, and effective communication/collaboration with internal and external teams.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify, develop, evaluate, introduce, and manage engineering solutions for product control and control system technology needs. Apply control theory and mathematical modeling to design and control systems with desired behaviors. Includes operability, setting of boundaries, cycle optimization, control logic, control related software, sensors, hardware and software algorithms, and feedback to control the performance of devices, subsystems and systems.
• Broadening knowledge of own technical discipline to execute policy/strategy. May include support roles with specialized technical field of knowledge; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
• Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require good technical knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
• A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a junior team. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Explains technical information to others.
• Demonstrate accountability for cost, schedule, quality, and technical accuracy of assigned tasks.
• Work with vendors to ensure designs can be manufactured to required quality standards.
• Technical collaboration between design engineering and vendors when manufacturing issues arise.
• Work with the technical leader to establish an effective work plan, including time estimates, schedule estimates, requirements and work processes.
• Apply engineering fundamentals and 1st order engineering principles to establish and/or confirm expected performance.
• Provide clear and complete analysis documentation in accordance with GE engineering procedures.
• Manage time effectively to provide quality deliverables within the expected project timeline. Communicate effectively to leadership the status of work activities.
• Effectively manage multiple priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering from an accredited university or college.
• 2 years PCB design and manufacturing experience.

Eligibility Requirements

• For US
  - 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.
• For Canada
  - This position will report onsite to the Markham office 3 days a week.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in nuclear analog and digital instrumentation, control, monitoring, and electric power system and field engineering.
• Competency in industry standards. IEEE, IEC, IPC, and quality.
• Competency in modeling and test data collection tools.
• Clear thinker, detail oriented, insightful, quantitative, balanced and a results-oriented analyst and leader.
• Proven track record of delivering commitments on budget and schedule with high quality results.
• 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.
• Adaptive; able to quickly learn diverse and varying organizational interfaces with professional astuteness.
• Continuous improvement…