Fire Protection System Engineer 3/4 (Nuclear Facilities Engineer)

Navy Seabee Foundation; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 128,000 - 266,500; Full time

Job summary

LANL seeks qualified Nuclear Facilities Engineers at 3 or 4 level to perform system, design, and project engineering for nuclear facilities, ensuring safety basis and regulatory compliance. The role may be filled at the 3 or 4 level based on selected candidate's skills, with higher-level duties assigned accordingly.

Engineers will integrate with operations, maintenance, document control, and project management to deliver safe, secure, and effective LANL missions.

Qualifications

• Nuclear facility engineers perform system engineering, design engineering, project engineering, safety basis and nuclear criticality functions.
• Identifies and/or leads activities within a nuclear facility engineering discipline.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Define requirements for nuclear facilities, nuclear safety systems, nuclear operations equipment, nuclear operations procedures, nuclear test and acceptance requirements and nuclear quality requirements.
• Integrate with programmatic, operations, maintenance, document control, project management personnel to ensure nuclear facility requirements are met.
• Apply broad and diversified knowledge of nuclear facility engineering principles to prepare deliverables.

Job description

What You Will Do

This position will be filled at either Nuclear Facilities Engineer 3 or 4 level, depending on the skills of the selected candidate. Additional job responsibilities (outlined below) will be assigned if the candidate is hired at the higher level.

Nuclear facility engineers perform system engineering, design engineering, project engineering, safety basis and nuclear criticality functions at LANL. Nuclear facility engineers define requirements for nuclear facilities, nuclear safety systems, nuclear operations equipment, nuclear operations procedures, nuclear test and acceptance requirements and nuclear quality requirements. Nuclear facility engineers integrate with programmatic, operations, maintenance, document control, project management personnel to ensure nuclear facility requirements are met in a way that allows for safe, secure, and effective accomplishment of LANL mission.

Identifies and/or leads activities within a nuclear facility engineering discipline. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Applies broad and diversified knowledge of nuclear facility engineering principles and practices in the preparation of nuclear facility engineering deliverables. Utilizes nuclear engineering technology to accomplish work and continuously improves work processes to meet customer needs.

Nuclear Facilities Engineer 3 - $128,000 - $215,900

The nuclear facility engineering role supports the LANL nuclear mission by effectively and efficiently implementing nuclear facility engineering regulatory requirements including the Nuclear Safety Management Rule, DOE Orders and Standards, American Nuclear Society Standards, national consensus Codes and Standards, recognized quality standards, Laboratory requirements, and federal, state, and local regulations.

The candidate can either be a qualified Fire Protection Engineer or another engineering discipline (such as a Mechanical Engineer) with demonstrated experience or willingness, and ability to support Fire Protection systems.

Nuclear Facilities Engineer 4 - $153,600 - $266,500

In addition to what was outlined at the lower level, at this level Identifies and/or leads activities within a nuclear facility engineering discipline. Must be able to work independently and as part of a team. Applies broad and diversified knowledge of nuclear facility engineering principles and practices in the preparation of nuclear facility engineering deliverables. Utilizes nuclear engineering technology to accomplish work and continuously improves work processes to meet customer needs.

The candidate can either be a qualified Fire Protection Engineer or another engineering discipline (such as a Mechanical Engineer) with demonstrated experience or willingness, and ability to support Fire Protection systems.