Radiological Shielding Engineer

The Senior Radiological Engineer - Shielding & Reactivity Control will contribute on the Shielding & Reactivity Control team by performing, verifying, and mentoring engineering work in the areas of radiation/dose assessment (shielding and criticality), fluence, reactivity control/reactivity insertion analysis, control rod blade design, spent fuel pool criticality, and transport package design/analysis.

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.

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. Exceptional organization skills.

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…