Fuels Engineer 4

🔥 11 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $127.1k - $153.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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NuScale Power

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201 - 500 employees

⚡ Energy

🏭 Manufacturing

Energy • Manufacturing

NuScale Power is a pioneering company in the nuclear energy sector, dedicated to designing innovative and safer nuclear power plants. The company's flagship product is the NuScale Power Module™ (NPM), a small modular reactor that integrates essential components into a single, factory-fabricated unit. Each NPM generates 77 megawatts of electricity, and a single NuScale plant can accommodate up to 12 modules, totaling 924 megawatts. NuScale emphasizes safety with its unique design that allows each module to automatically shut down and self-cool in case of a power loss, enhancing operational reliability. With a mission to improve the quality of life for all through advanced nuclear technology, NuScale Power is redefining the future of energy generation.

📋 Description

• Serve as a primary technical authority for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis methods, including gap conductance, cladding strain, fatigue, creep collapse, pellet-cladding interaction, and performance margins • Drive development, qualification, and application of next-generation fuel performance modeling approaches • Evaluate and incorporate industry advancements, benchmark data, and vendor methodologies into NuScale’s thermal-mechanical framework • Support interfacing methods such as neutronics, subchannel analysis, and system thermal-hydraulics • Perform safety analysis calculations using industry-standard and advanced fuel thermal-mechanical simulation tools • Evaluate limits and margins for normal operation and design-basis events • Lead software benchmarking, qualification, and quality assurance documentation • Integrate fuel thermal-mechanical methods with multi-physics modeling and methods development • Support product and service strategy development for next-generation light-water reactor fuel • Coordinate thermal-mechanical input/output interfaces, change control, shared models, and cross-discipline analysis frameworks • Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex analysis tasks • Contribute to licensing technical/topical reports, license applications, and other licensing documentation • Participate in licensing interactions with the government regulator • Prepare and verify engineering reports, calculations, studies, system descriptions, requirement specifications, and design documents • Develop innovative solutions to multifaceted technical challenges and execute analyses with minimal oversight • Support changing organizational priorities, urgent analyses, cross-functional reviews, troubleshooting, and special studies

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum B.S. degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline from a four-year accredited college or university • Advanced degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering desirable • Minimum 8 years of full-time, directly relevant engineering experience • Demonstrated experience implementing engineering design processes for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis and fuel design • Additional experience with neutronics, transient analysis, and related safety analysis preferred • Experience in core design and neutronics preferred • Eligible to work under Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 810 • Knowledge and implementation of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 21, and NQA-1 quality assurance regulations, standards, and guidelines • Ability to understand and communicate clearly using a phone, personal interaction, and computers • Ability to learn new job functions and comprehend and apply new concepts quickly • Ability to travel nationally and locally using common forms of transportation • Ability to perform essential duties efficiently and accurately without causing a significant safety threat to self or others

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work for individuals living beyond a 30 mile radius of a physical NuScale office but within the contiguous United States • Employee benefits are provided; details are available on the NuScale Careers Overview page • Equal opportunity employer