Senior Engineer, Welding Technologies

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

 

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for an Senior Engineer, Welding Technologies, located in Rock Hill, SC, or Cranberry Township, PA, USA.

No Relocation Assistance is available for this position.

 

Your Day-to-Day:

The Principal Welding Engineer supports the development, implementation, and troubleshooting of welding-related requirements and activities for the fabrication, erection, and maintenance of nuclear power plants and associated facilities.

• Reports to the Lead Engineer – Welding Technologies for day-to-day direction
• Review contract, design, and regulatory requirements to develop project welding specifications.
• Provide guidance to fabricators and construction personnel for compliance with project welding requirements.
• Review supplier documentation including weld maps, detail drawings, PQRs and WPSs, and Welding Programs to ensure conformance with project requirements.
• Interface with Global Supply Chain and Supplier Performance Engineering to support fab-follow activities for AP1000 systems, structures, and components.
• Participate in constructability and design reviews for the development of Westinghouse technologies.
• Interface with other Engineering disciplines to provide input to Engineering Specifications and associated change paper documentation.
• Support the continued development of the WELD software package and associated PQR and WPS databases.
• Provide input to estimates and proposals for welding-related activities.
• Aid in the evaluation of weld failures and associate causal analyses.
• Travel to suppliers and vendors for support of welding program activities, assisting vendors in welding related fabrication and technical issues, welding personnel qualification assistance, WPS qualification and documentation requirements.
• Provide consultation, technical responses, and support for welding related questions and issues presented by ANI, Code, and Regulatory bodies, clients, and internal customers.
• Provide support for the maintenance and development of the Westinghouse and Stone & Webster, LLC ASME Section III corporate certificate programs.

 

Who You Are:
As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university in Welding Engineering, Materials Science, Welding Engineering Technology, or related field.
• 5-10 years experience as a Welding Engineer or related position
  • 5+ years of nuclear-specific construction or fabrication experience in the power plant, shipbuilding, industrial process construction, maintenance, component repair & replacement, applied research and development, and/or manufacturing facility.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS and ASME Codes including ASME Section II, III, V, XI, B31.1, B31.3 and AWS D1.1, D1.3, D1.4, D1.6, D9.1, D10.10.
  • Experience with CSA N299, W47.1, W59, RCC-M, NBIC, N690, AISC 341, AISC 360, and PCC-2 preferred.
• Experience with the fabrication and erection of steel-concrete composite panels and modular construction techniques, including welding fit-up, tolerancing and distortion control.