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New Grad! Process Safety Engineer (Hybrid)

Westinghouse Electric Company
Burr Ridge, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Mar 2025

About the role

Are you interested in being part of a creative 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 want to recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace. 

 

Fauske & Associates, LLC (FAI) is a Westinghouse Electric Company affiliated company located in Burr Ridge, Illinois, approximately 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.  The company was founded in 1980 and has brought a high tech capability to the understanding of issues related to both nuclear reactor safety and chemical reactor safety.  The principals and staff are recognized in the nuclear and chemical industries for phenomenological modeling and development of tools related to the prevention and accommodation of chemical and nuclear plant accidents.  The services provided to customers all around the world for the last 30 years are unique and specialized.  They reflect the skill and knowledge of a group of individuals dedicated to providing the best means of protecting mankind and the environment.

 

About the role:

As an entry-level Process Safety Engineer, you will perform laboratory experiments and calculations under the mentorship of your manager or more senior engineers.

You will report to the Senior Manager of Chemical Process Engineering for BOP Mechanical & Chemical Process Engineering. This is a hybrid position based in Burr Ridge, IL. No relocation provided. We can consider candidates able to work without sponsorship now and in the future.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform laboratory experiments, engineering calculations, and assessments for process safety, safe operation of nuclear power plants and waste treatment, thermal-hydraulics modeling and analysis,

  • Software development developing mathematical models into a C++ codebase using Git for source code control 

  • Prepare documentation supporting evaluations and analyses

  • Verify routine evaluations and analyses performed by others, as qualified

  • Plan and schedule work to meet assignment requirements within schedule and budget

  • Develop skills to assume more independent assignments

  • Ensure accuracy and completeness

     

Qualifications:

  • 0+ years of experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Chemical, Nuclear or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

  • Min 3.0 GPA

  • Familiar w/ coding in C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, MathCAD, Python or source code control

  • May be familiar w/ thermodynamics, transport phenomena (momentum, heat, and mass), kinetics, multi-phase flow modeling (not required)

 

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