Hybrid Mechanical Equipment Engineer — Nuclear Process Systems

Nano Nuclear Energy, Inc.; Oak Ridge (TN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Relocation package available

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401(k) with up to 5% company match

Unlimited PTO, holidays, and paid Par-

Mentorship, technical leadership, and/

Job summary

NANO Nuclear Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is seeking a Mechanical Equipment Design Engineer to design and commission specialized equipment for uranium processing. This hands-on role involves turning process requirements into practical designs, assembling, commissioning, and trouble-shooting in a laboratory-to-demonstration setting.

You will collaborate with process engineers, fabricators, and vendors, address corrosion, thermal, and containment challenges, and help scale equipment from lab to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Experience designing process equipment for chemical, nuclear, ceramic, high-temperature, vacuum, powder-processing, or specialty manufacturing systems.
• Hands-on experience building, modifying, commissioning, maintaining, or troubleshooting laboratory, pilot, or demonstration-facility equipment.
• Strong knowledge of pressure and temperature systems, thermal equipment, gas systems, rotating or solids-handling equipment, mechanical interfaces, fabrication methods, and maintainability.
• Experience developing equipment specifications and working with fabricators, machine shops, integrators, or equipment vendors.
• Ability to prepare and maintain engineering calculations, drawings, equipment lists, interface requirements, and commissioning records.

Responsibilities

• Design and specify process equipment, including reactors, vessels, furnaces, kilns, powder-handling systems, gas and vacuum systems, condensers, scrubbers, and modular process skids.
• Translate temperature, pressure, flow, reaction, solids-handling, and containment requirements into fabricable, operable equipment designs.
• Participate in equipment fabrication reviews, assembly, installation, alignment, leak testing, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Address corrosion, erosion, thermal expansion, sealing, insulation, fatigue, contamination control, and other equipment reliability challenges.
• Design for maintainability, cleanout, inspection, decontamination, component replacement, and remote handling where appropriate.
• Prepare procurement specifications, evaluate vendor proposals, review drawings, and support factory and site acceptance testing.
• Evaluate scale-up effects on heat transfer, mixing, solids transport, gas distribution, residence time, and process performance.
• Maintain controlled engineering documentation and assess design changes for process, safety, and product-quality impacts.

Skills

Mechanical design

Equipment specification

Fabrication collaboration

Pressure/temperature systems

Nuclear process equipment

Engineering calculations

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

SolidWorks

AutoCAD

Job description

NANO Nuclear Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is seeking a Mechanical Equipment Design Engineer to design and commission specialized equipment for uranium processing. This hands-on role involves turning process requirements into practical designs, assembling, commissioning, and trouble-shooting in a laboratory-to-demonstration setting.

You will collaborate with process engineers, fabricators, and vendors, address corrosion, thermal, and containment challenges, and help scale equipment from lab to