Nuclear Engineer – BWR Systems

🕒 August 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Quest Defense

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201 - 500 employees

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

Aerospace • Defense

Quest Defense is a company specializing in providing advanced engineering solutions for the defense sector, particularly in the domains of air, land, sea, and space. They deliver mission-critical and safety-focused solutions, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital threads throughout the product lifecycle to enhance efficiency, performance, and safety. Their expertise encompasses a wide range of services including mechanical engineering, engineering process optimization, and sustainment and product support. Quest Defense partners with leading defense organizations to meet the most challenging industry standards and demands, working on innovative technologies to optimize aerospace, naval, land, and space systems. The company is committed to diversity, inclusion, and maintaining high ethical standards in its operations.

📋 Description

• Translate plant-level, operational, and nuclear safety requirements into allocated system and subsystem requirements • Decompose and allocate requirements across mechanical, electrical, hardware, software, FPGA, instrumentation, and control implementations • Develop, maintain, and review system descriptions, design specifications, interface requirements, Interface Control Documents (ICDs), cabinet drawings, elementary drawings, and connection/route drawings • Evaluate proposed changes to mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, control, protection, and safety systems • Support development and review of engineering change packages and plant design modifications • Perform requirements quality, completeness, consistency, and traceability reviews • Participate in technical and design reviews, Technical Specification markups, and licensing-related reviews • Evaluate potential nuclear safety, design-basis, and licensing impacts associated with design changes • Support resolution of technical issues, test anomalies, nonconformances, and design discrepancies • Perform or support functional analysis, requirements analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA/FMECA), single-failure analysis, and design-basis evaluations • Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure system interfaces and requirements are properly understood and implemented

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline • 5+ years of nuclear power design engineering or directly related nuclear engineering experience • Experience supporting Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) systems, instrumentation and controls, plant operations, or design engineering • Strong understanding of BWR plant architecture, system interactions, and plant-level requirements • Experience translating nuclear safety and plant-level requirements into system and subsystem engineering requirements • Experience with requirements decomposition, allocation, verification, and engineering documentation • Understanding of nuclear design-basis and licensing-basis requirements • Knowledge of safety classifications, including safety-related and important-to-safety equipment • Experience evaluating engineering changes and their impact on nuclear plant systems • Strong technical writing, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills • Candidates must be US Citizens or US Permanent Residents • Experience in one or more of reactor protection and instrumentation and controls, BWR design basis and safety engineering, or engineering analysis

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Employer-matched 401(k) • Certification assistance • Clear opportunities for advancement • Flexible, collaborative, and people-first workplace • Comprehensive medical, dental, life, and disability coverage • Professional development support • Flexible and friendly workplace