Applied Mechanical Engineer

🔥 4 hours ago

🥔 Idaho – Remote

🥔 Idaho – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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Navarro Research and Engineering

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

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Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Navarro Research and Engineering is a leading small business contractor specializing in providing client-focused solutions to complex challenges in the nuclear, environmental, and clean energy fields. Since 1993, Navarro has supported federal agencies in effectively executing their missions through high-quality services in environmental management, nuclear services, health and industrial hygiene, and technical services. Known for its safety leadership and reliable project completion, Navarro boasts a highly skilled workforce. The company also engages in community commitment and educational support initiatives.

📋 Description

• Provide applied mechanical engineering support for a novel advanced reactor design project • Apply engineering principles to mechanical challenges involving the motion and dynamics of heat, gases, air, fluids, and solid materials • Perform system and component design, evaluation, documentation, testing, configuration management, fabrication oversight, and implementation • Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers • Perform mechanical system design and evaluation and support project completion and implementation activities • Design reactor vessels in accordance with the ASME BPVC for high-temperature service, including creep and fatigue considerations • Design high-temperature gaskets, sealing systems, and bolting • Document electromechanical device designs, including controlled and approved models, drawings, specifications, and design descriptions for control rod or drum drive mechanisms • Decompose project objectives into defined and controlled design requirements using a systems engineering approach and digital engineering tools • Apply discipline best practices, design methodologies, technologies, and processes to develop and validate designs • Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements • Oversee or ensure fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement activities comply with the approved design • Ensure designs meet technical baseline requirements and applicable codes and regulations • Develop, verify, and maintain configuration management for the technical baseline and assigned systems • Ensure consistent operating characteristics across drawings, technical manuals, operating instructions, and emergency operating procedures • Coordinate with designers, customers, and analysts to develop experiment requirements, complete designs, follow fabrication and inspection, lead assembly, support installation and testing, and develop integrated analyses demonstrating facility safety bases are met • Perform design, fabrication, and associated activities supporting reactor operations and experimentation • Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Reactor Project Engineer or Engineering Manager

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency in designing mechanical systems in accordance with applicable national consensus codes and standards, including the ASME B31 series and ASME BPVC • Proven experience designing reactor vessels for high-temperature service with creep and fatigue considerations • Proven experience designing high-temperature gaskets, sealing systems, and bolting • Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles used to produce precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models • Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology, including the principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment used in the design and production of goods and services • Ability to apply general rules to specific problems and produce logical solutions • Ability to combine information to form general rules or conclusions, including identifying relationships among seemingly unrelated events • Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas communicated verbally and to communicate technical information clearly so others understand • Ability to recognize when a problem exists or is likely to occur • Experience supporting the design of novel or advanced nuclear reactors in a multidisciplinary team environment (preferred) • Experience with systems engineering, digital engineering tools, requirements tracking, design parameter management, and configuration management (preferred) • Experience with electromechanical devices such as control rod or drum drive mechanisms (preferred) • Experience supporting fabrication, construction, assembly, procurement, inspection, experiment installation, testing, reactor operations, or experimentation (preferred) • Experience developing integrated analyses to demonstrate compliance with facility safety bases (preferred) • Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a directly related field from an ABET-accredited program and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering or a directly related field from an ABET-accredited program and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience • US citizenship is required • Must be available to travel to Idaho as required