Associate - Staff Engineer Probabilistic Risk Assessment Innsbrook

 

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Job Summary

Dominion Energy has an opportunity available to join the Probabilistic Risk Assessment group at Innsbrook Technical Center in Glen Allen, VA as an Associate level to Staff level Engineer.  The position will be filled at the level commensurate with the successful candidate's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

 

Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) is part of the Nuclear Safety Engineering (NSE) organization in the Nuclear Analysis and Fuels & Regulatory Assurance (NAFRA) department.  PRA has responsibility for developing, maintaining, and applying probabilistic risk models to support Dominion Energy’s nuclear plants in Virginia, Connecticut, and South Carolina.  The PRA models are designed to evaluate plant response in the event of an accident at a nuclear power station.  They account for the design of plant systems and the responses of plant operators to potential accidents to evaluate the importance of systems and components to plant risk.  Risk insights are used to improve safety and efficiency of plant operations and maintenance. 

 

Job Responsibilities include:

• PRA Modeling - Use industry software to maintain PRA model files in accordance with the ASME/ANS PRA Standard;
• PRA Electrical Analysis - Circuit analysis, cable routing, failure mode analysis;
• Fire PRA Development - Development and refinement of Fire PRA models;
• PRA Applications - Perform analysis using the PRA models to support regulatory and elective risk-informed programs and applications (Maintenance Rule, NFPA 805, Significance Determination Process, Mitigating Systems Performance Index, etc.);
• PRA Documentation - Document model changes, supporting analyses, and PRA applications to efficiently and effectively establish model bases;
• PRA Project Management - Lead and manage PRA projects that involve multiple engineers and interface with multiple departments;
• PRA Software Testing - Perform testing and validation of new code versions and new software packages;
• Organizational Interface - Interface with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, IT, and other departments

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience that are required for entry into this job include the following:

• Associate Engineer: 0-2 years of experience;
• Engineer: 2-5 years of experience;
• Senior Engineer: 5-7 years of experience;
• Staff Engineer: 8+ years of experience. 

 

The successful candidate will be offered the Associate Engineer, Engineer, Sr. Engineer or Staff Engineer position commensurate with their experience, knowledge, skills and abilities.

 

The preferred candidates will have:

• Previous work experience including Electrical Engineering, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, or Operations/Station Engineering is desirable.
• Familiarity with Fire PRA, NFPA 805, Seismic PRA, 10 CFR 50.69, Technical Specifications, and/or Risk-Informed Applications (including RICT) is a plus.
• Shift Technical Advisor (STA) qualification is a plus.
• Knowledge of fundamental nuclear, mechanical, and electrical theory and engineering principles
• Knowledge of fundamental theory, design, systems, structures, components, and operation of pressurized water reactors
• Professional orientation and effective interpersonal skills; effective communication skills in both written and verbal forms; collaboration and knowledge sharing; initiative
• Extensive knowledge of engineering theories, principles, and practices to a broad variety of assignments and related field.\
• Extensive skilled in use of advanced techniques and modification and extension of theories, precepts and practices of the field and related sciences and disciplines.
• Full Knowledge of business/financial and contractual matters
• Recognized expert by other engineers and management in assigned area.
• Provides expert technical advice to other engineers and management in