Facility Cognizant Systems Engineer – Critical Facility Lead

Aalo Atomics; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Aalo Atomics in Idaho Falls is seeking a Facility Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle ownership of the CAF on the Aalo-X site and to support its building and infrastructure systems. This hands-on role requires field walkdowns, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation to ensure configuration aligns with design and safety requirements.

You will serve as the Cognizant System Engineer for CAF and related SSCs, manage changes, support maintenance, and coordinate with operators,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant facility, plant, nuclear, construction, or maintenance engineering experience.
• Experience supporting operating buildings, industrial facilities, or infrastructure systems.
• Ability to interpret facility drawings, structural details, specifications, calculations, equipment data, and vendor documentation.
• Strong practical troubleshooting and field-engineering capability.
• Experience supporting facility repairs, maintenance, modifications, or construction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to spend significant time in the facility working directly with operators, maintenance personnel, contractors, and vendors.
• Ability to independently own facility technical issues through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the assigned CSE and principal engineering point of contact for the CAF system.
• Maintain knowledge of facility design basis and ensure configuration remains compliant with requirements, drawings, analyses, and documentation.
• Maintain Facility Design Description/System Design Description and supporting documents.
• Maintain cognizance over configuration‑managed and special‑treatment facility SSCs, including basemat and shielding components.
• Perform routine facility walkdowns and material‑condition inspections.
• Monitor facility and equipment condition for degradation and abnormal behavior; maintain health‑tracking records.
• Provide engineering support to Operations and Maintenance for facility‑system issues and preventive actions.
• Coordinate with contractors and vendors during modifications and ensure proper documentation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Field engineering

Communication skills

Ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Architectural, Facilities engineering

Tools

Teamcenter

Configuration management

Job description

Aalo Atomics in Idaho Falls is seeking a Facility Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle ownership of the CAF on the Aalo-X site and to support its building and infrastructure systems. This hands-on role requires field walkdowns, troubleshooting, and maintaining documentation to ensure configuration aligns with design and safety requirements.

You will serve as the Cognizant System Engineer for CAF and related SSCs, manage changes, support maintenance, and coordinate with operators,