Radiological Shielding Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Perform technical evaluations and provide technical support in the areas of shielding design/analysis, fluence analysis, criticality assessments, and control rod blade design.
• Effectively communicate and coordinate activities with internal and external project managers, technical personnel, and customers on engineering/technical issues.
• Maintain a high standard of quality and safety while meeting baseline project schedule and cost objectives.
• Prepare, document and present technical data to internal and external customers.
• Contribute to team process improvements to drive speed and simplification.
• Ensure work is performed with high quality in accordance with NRC, CNSC, or other regulatory rules and regulations, customer requirements, and business quality assurance standards.
• Mentor and guide early career engineers in shielding design/analysis.
• Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may inform work.
• Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operational, product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering.
• Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders.
• Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations.
• Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
• May lead functional teams or projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics.
• May guide others to consider a different point of view.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or closely related science discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in coupled neutron/gamma shielding design for nuclear power plants, including the design of penetrations in shielding walls.
• Minimum of 8 years' experience with MCNP for shielding analysis, including the use of variance reduction techniques to solve large scale deep penetration shielding problems.
• Minimum of 8 years' of experience in nuclear radiological analysis, radiation shielding, nuclear safety analysis and methods, or nuclear fuel, core, or plant design.

Desired Characteristics

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering or closely related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• 12+ years' of experience in nuclear radiological analysis, nuclear safety analysis, coupled neutron/gamma shielding design for nuclear power plants, experience with MCNP for shielding analysis.
• 12+ years of experience in methods and application of computational neutral particle radiation transport theory.
• Experience with BWR technology. Knowledge of plant operational support.
• Knowledge of reactor licensing requirements. Experience with BWR simulator and use of 3-Dimensional neutron kinetics code (e.g., PANAC, PARCS).
• Experience in reactivity control such as reactivity insertion accident, rod withdrawal error, control rod drop accident analyses.
• Experience with MCNP, SCALE, KENO, ORIGN, and/or coupled Monte-Carlo/deterministic radiation transport methods. Object-oriented programming experience such as Java, C#, C++.
• Demonstrated high energy and the ability to energize others.
• Honest and straightforward with a high level of personal integrity.
• Work easily and communicate effectively within a team environment.
• Strong personal commitment and determination.
• Detail oriented and accountable for results.
• Exceptional organization skills.
• Display a strong drive for continuous improvement. Displays an engaging, can-do, optimistic attitude.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization…