ENGINEERING MANAGER - NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE
GE Aerospace
Wilmington NC 28401 US
Job Description Summary Serve as the Engineering Manager - Nuclear Criticality Safety for NRC licensed activities under SNM-1097. Provide and direct criticality safety technical support of the Global Nuclear Fuel - America's (GNF-A) commercial BWR nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. In addition, provide and direct technical criticality safety support of the design, analysis, and licensing of advanced High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel cycle facilities involving UF6 deconversion, metallization, and metal alloy fuel fabrication pursuant to 10CFR70. Ensure criticality safety program compliance and recommend changes to the criticality safety program including design criteria, methods, analysis, procedures, and training. Job Description Roles and Responsibilities * Lead and advocate professional development of nuclear criticality safety engineer professional staff.
* Perform neutronics calculations and documented nuclear criticality safety evaluations (referred locally as criticality safety analyses or CSAs).
* Assess normal and credible abnormal operating conditions.
* Determine criticality safety limits for controlled parameters.
* Specify criticality control requirements and functionality.
* Perform technical verifications of documented CSAs.
* Lead and coordinate nuclear criticality safety engineering technical staff to meet business needs and schedules; mentor other engineers in performing technical duties in support of CSA development.
* Review and approve design changes and ensure the impacts to the CSA's and identified IROFS for criticality safety are addressed throughout existing facility (or new facility) lifecycle.
* Ensure that IROFS are designed and constructed to perform their intended safety function, and management measures are implemented to ensure they remain available and reliable.
* Recommend methods improvements and validation of Monte Carlo codes used to support criticality safety analyses in support of existing (and planned future) GNF-A fissile operations.
* Provide criticality safety support of integrated safety analyses and configuration management.
* Provide advice and counsel to area managers (AMs) on criticality safety control measures, including review and approval of operating procedures.
* Qualify as the primary Nuclear Safety Advisor (NSA) in support on the site emergency organization and participate in response planning, drills, exercises, and events.
* Assess the effectiveness of the criticality safety program through scheduled internal and external audit programs.
* Provide technical counsel to GNF-A nuclear packaging engineering and logistics pursuant to 10CFR71 and IAEA SSR6.
* Participate in cross-functional team of Operations, Engineering and Safety staff in performing the PHA for proposed nuclear fuel cycle processes and equipment.
* Participate in the ISA process as a representative of criticality safety to ensure compliance with SNM-1097 license commitments and applicable NRC regulatory requirements.
* Perform reviews of supporting safety bases documentation such as Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA), and consequence severity calculations.
* Approve proposed changes in process conditions or equipment involving fissile material.
* Work closely with the technical leaders, functional managers, project management to coordinate work planning, scheduling, and technical support of project deliverables.
* Communicate/collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure project deliverables related to documented nuclear criticality safety analysis and licensing are completed on schedule.
* Participate in meetings with the NRC, directly interface with NRC staff during routine regulatory audits of facility, develop responses to NRC Requests for Additional Information, and support operational readiness reviews as needed Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering.
* Minimum of 10-years of experience in Nuclear Criticality Safety at an NRC licensed fuel cycle facility or DOE regulated nuclear materials facility.
* Minimum of 10 years of experience with Monte Carlo Neutron Transport methods. Eligibility Requirements * Must be comfortable/willing to relocate to Wilmington, NC.
* For Controlled Access Area: must be able to successfully pass a Nuclear Safety Training Test; follow strict radiation protection, criticality, and industrial safety regulations; wear protective clothing to enter the area.
* This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to U.S. export-controlled technology. GE wi
* Perform neutronics calculations and documented nuclear criticality safety evaluations (referred locally as criticality safety analyses or CSAs).
* Assess normal and credible abnormal operating conditions.
* Determine criticality safety limits for controlled parameters.
* Specify criticality control requirements and functionality.
* Perform technical verifications of documented CSAs.
* Lead and coordinate nuclear criticality safety engineering technical staff to meet business needs and schedules; mentor other engineers in performing technical duties in support of CSA development.
* Review and approve design changes and ensure the impacts to the CSA's and identified IROFS for criticality safety are addressed throughout existing facility (or new facility) lifecycle.
* Ensure that IROFS are designed and constructed to perform their intended safety function, and management measures are implemented to ensure they remain available and reliable.
* Recommend methods improvements and validation of Monte Carlo codes used to support criticality safety analyses in support of existing (and planned future) GNF-A fissile operations.
* Provide criticality safety support of integrated safety analyses and configuration management.
* Provide advice and counsel to area managers (AMs) on criticality safety control measures, including review and approval of operating procedures.
* Qualify as the primary Nuclear Safety Advisor (NSA) in support on the site emergency organization and participate in response planning, drills, exercises, and events.
* Assess the effectiveness of the criticality safety program through scheduled internal and external audit programs.
* Provide technical counsel to GNF-A nuclear packaging engineering and logistics pursuant to 10CFR71 and IAEA SSR6.
* Participate in cross-functional team of Operations, Engineering and Safety staff in performing the PHA for proposed nuclear fuel cycle processes and equipment.
* Participate in the ISA process as a representative of criticality safety to ensure compliance with SNM-1097 license commitments and applicable NRC regulatory requirements.
* Perform reviews of supporting safety bases documentation such as Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Quantitative Risk Assessments (QRA), and consequence severity calculations.
* Approve proposed changes in process conditions or equipment involving fissile material.
* Work closely with the technical leaders, functional managers, project management to coordinate work planning, scheduling, and technical support of project deliverables.
* Communicate/collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure project deliverables related to documented nuclear criticality safety analysis and licensing are completed on schedule.
* Participate in meetings with the NRC, directly interface with NRC staff during routine regulatory audits of facility, develop responses to NRC Requests for Additional Information, and support operational readiness reviews as needed Required Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering.
* Minimum of 10-years of experience in Nuclear Criticality Safety at an NRC licensed fuel cycle facility or DOE regulated nuclear materials facility.
* Minimum of 10 years of experience with Monte Carlo Neutron Transport methods. Eligibility Requirements * Must be comfortable/willing to relocate to Wilmington, NC.
* For Controlled Access Area: must be able to successfully pass a Nuclear Safety Training Test; follow strict radiation protection, criticality, and industrial safety regulations; wear protective clothing to enter the area.
* This role is restricted to U.S. persons (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) due to access to U.S. export-controlled technology. GE wi