Job Description Summary

Champion, expert, and technologist of BWRX-300 Plant I&C Systems Architecture and Design from “tops-down” and “peer-to-peer” systems engineering and requirements management perspective. Make technical decisions derived from Safety Strategy, Fault List, nuclear regulations, industry standards, etc. that are fact based, reasonable, and durable with impact on Control Systems designs. Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving challenging problems.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Senior Systems Engineer (LSE) for BWRX-300 Master Parts List (MPL) A32 – Plant Instrumentation and Control Engineering with the primary focus and scope of systems engineering and requirements management (RM) approach governing the overall integrated control system-of-systems (SOS) architecture and design covering the separate but related dimensions of requirements, design decisions, and interfaces derived from:
  • Plant, System, and Component “tops-down” design and
  • Intra- [i.e.; Controls] and Inter- Discipline [e.g.; Non-Controls] “peer-to-peer” interactions
• Champion identification, elicitation, definition, attribution or characterization, and allocation to “C” Systems of requirements, design decisions, and interfaces from diverse sources:
  • Plant Level sources – Safety Strategy, Fault List, Deterministic (DSA) and Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA), Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Inspectability (RAMI), Human Factors (HF), Radiation, IAEA national nuclear regulations and guides, industry standards [IEC, IEEE, CSA], etc.
  • System Level sources – Mechanical, Electrical, Civil/Structural, etc.
• Mentor others on BWRX-300 specific Safety Strategy, Fault List, and IAEA based Defense Line framework as well as associated safety categorization of functions and safety classification of structures, systems, components (SSCs), and equipment thereof.
• Champion and mentor others in RM processes – Drive use of RM tool.
• Prepare and maintain using data-centric digital tools with rigorous requirements, change control, and configuration management.
• Perform design technical oversight, review, and verification of deliverables to ensure their adequacy in; accuracy, completeness, and compliance with requirements.
• Lead technical assessment or problem solving reviews (PSRs), optioneering studies, root cause analyses, design reviews, etc. that are fact based, reasonable, and result in a durable impact on Control Systems designs.
• Perform as key or first point of contact for Regulatory Affairs or Licensing for preparation or review and comment of; Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR), Preliminary Operating Safety Analysis Report (POSAR), and Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) Chapter 7 – Instrumentation & Control Systems [or equivalent], Licensing Topical Reports, Requests Additional (RAIs) or For Information (RFIs), etc.
• Provide staff technical mentoring, guidance, oversight, competency, or qualification assessment with balanced, respectful mindset informed by creativity, foresight, mature judgement.
• Champion knowledge capture and transfer, Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Design Guides, use of digital tools, etc.
• Prepare technical papers, awards, and patents.
• Participate in industry technical working groups.
• Establish productive working relationships with; Engineering, Product and Project Management, other support functions, and both internal and external suppliers.
• Deliver with integrity, safety and security, quality, then output at cost – Champion nuclear culture.
• Support LEAN, Design To Cost, Value Engineering, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering for Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Computer Science or Technology, Software or Systems or Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or equivalent advanced technical degree.
• 15 year experience in nuclear industry.
• 10 year experience preparing system design requirements, specifications, documentation, and related detailed design artifacts using digital tools such as; drawings, databases, tabular lists covering functions, algorithms, set points, equipment and instrument characteristics and configurations, electrical and heat loads, physical equipment layout.
• 10 year experience using industry standards applicable to nuclear plant I&C systems design and modification design change packages (DCPs) through requisition engineering or fulfillment and FAT to successful site installation test and COD:
  • IEC Standards 60xxx, 61xxx and 62xxx series, OR
  • IEEE Standards 828, 829, 830, 1008, 1012, 1028, 1042, and 1074.
• 10 year experience with