Senior Nuclear Core Designer

At Westinghouse Electric Company, we are pioneers in nuclear technology and our technology is the basis for nearly half of the world's commercial nuclear power plants in operation. Today, we are also building several new reactors that contribute to more fossil-free energy. Globally, we have over 10,000 employees in 19 countries, of which 1,000 are at our Swedish workplaces in Västerås and Täby. Our Swedish operations were founded in 1969 and supply nuclear fuel as well as products and services in automation, maintenance, testing and decommissioning for customers around the world. Read more about us www.westinghousenuclear.com. 

Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Engineering

Energize your career with Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Engineering!  We support the most nuclear plants types and fuel types around the world, and continuously develop and innovate to ensure customer success with advances in fuel, core, and next generation plant designs.    We vigorously maintain a strong customer focus while maintaining accountabilities to Nuclear Safety in a culture that promotes the safe operation of the global nuclear fleet.

 

Location for All Jobs:  

Cranberry Township, PA, USA (CWHQ - Headquarters); Rock Hill, SC, US; Dallas, TX, USA

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.

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

 

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary

• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program

• Employee Referral Program

 

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Nuclear Engineer in the Core Engineering Group, See Below.

 

Senior Nuclear Core Design Engineer:   Core Engineering is looking for an experienced Senior Core Designer to join the Nuclear Design groups. 

Your Day-to-Day: 

• Begin with an accelerated nuclear design specific training and education that will lead to a Westinghouse Nuclear Design (ND) qualification.

• Embracing the nuclear culture - Understand what makes Nuclear Special and implement human performance tools and operating experience to produce high quality error free customer deliverables. 
• Perform nuclear core design reload calculations by using the internal and external nuclear core design simulation coeds, following internal methodology and design manuals, and consulting with experienced peer and mentor engineers.
• Leading a plant or multiple plants in core design reload cycles, interacting with the utilities to meet their safety and operational needs.
• Participants will interpret the results and work with independent engineering verifiers and to produce and deliver quality calculations to operating PWR plants.
• Participate in engineering learning seminars to maintain qualification and learn and apply lessons learned and operational experience in core design.
• Become a member of a core reload team and interact regularly with the nuclear plant customer to provide high quality analyses on a core reload schedule.
• Candidate will be required to interface with functional groups within Core Engineering (Thermal Hydraulics, Fuel Rod Design, Project Management) and groups outside CE (Safety Analysis and Licensing).
• Examples of the type of nuclear de