Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer - Nuclear Facility

Aalo Atomics; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary based on technical

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Aalo Atomics in Idaho Falls, ID seeks a Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to own lifecycle management of assigned mechanical systems at the CAF on the Aalo-X site. You’ll ensure safe, reliable configuration and defend technical decisions throughout the lifecycle.

You will collaborate with operations, maintenance, QA, vendors, and design authority to meet safety and performance requirements, with a focus on operability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in nuclear power, DOE facilities, power generation, or other regulated environments.
• Strong mechanical system-engineering fundamentals.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting operating mechanical equipment.
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, P&IDs, system descriptions, engineering calculations, specifications, and vendor documentation.
• Experience with mechanical equipment such as pressure boundaries, actuators, mechanical drives, valves, structures, or similar high-reliability equipment.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Ability to independently drive technical issues through resolution.
• 10+ years of relevant mechanical or nuclear plant engineering experience.
• DOE nuclear-facility experience.
• Familiarity with DOE-STD-1073 configuration-management principles.
• Professional Engineer license.
• Experience with Teamcenter or comparable configuration/document-management systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain detailed technical knowledge of assigned system functions, design requirements, performance criteria, interfaces, operating limits, and current configuration, including traceability among requirements, physical configuration, safety-basis functions where applicable, and controlled documentation.
• Serve as the principal engineering point of contact for assigned systems.
• Maintain System Design Descriptions, drawings, calculations, specifications, vendor information, technical evaluations, and applicable engineering inputs to procedures.
• Maintain awareness of system interfaces with electrical, I&C, structural, facility, and reactor systems.
• Monitor system health using surveillance results, inspection data, operating history, maintenance history, equipment condition, and field observations, and review test and surveillance results against approved design and performance requirements.
• Trend system parameters and equipment performance to identify degradation before required functionality is lost.
• Perform or support system walkdowns and material-condition assessments.
• Identify recurring equipment issues and develop technically sound corrective actions.
• Escalate adverse trends or conditions that challenge system requirements or safety functions.
• Provide engineering support for system operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, testing, and emergent equipment issues.
• Supply design-basis and technical input to maintenance work planning.
• Evaluate degraded and nonconforming conditions involving assigned systems, and support equipment-failure investigations, root-cause evaluations, and corrective actions.
• Establish or review technical acceptance criteria for maintenance and modification testing.
• Review completed work and test results to verify restoration of required system configuration and performance.
• Participate in change reviews affecting assigned systems.
• Evaluate changes for impacts to requirements, interfaces, performance, safety functions, documentation, testing, and equipment qualification.
• Support USQ screening/evaluations by providing accurate technical information.
• Support physical configuration walkdowns and reconcile discrepancies between field conditions and controlled documentation.
• Support Engineering Change Requests and Engineering Change Notices through implementation and closure.
• Monitor replacement-part availability and equipment obsolescence.
• Develop or review technical requirements for replacement equipment and components.
• Support equivalent-replacement and substitution evaluations.
• Review supplier and vendor technical information.
• Support design, installation, testing, and turnover of modifications to assigned systems.
• Participate in future Aalo-0 and Aalo-X reactor design reviews with emphasis on operability, maintainability, reliability, testability, and configuration control.
• Support commissioning and turnover of new systems.
• Assume responsibility for additional systems as qualifications, workload, and organizational needs evolve.

Skills

Mechanical design

P&ID interpretation

Troubleshooting

Engineering calculations

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Teamcenter

AutoCAD

SolidWorks

Job description

Aalo Atomics in Idaho Falls, ID seeks a Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to own lifecycle management of assigned mechanical systems at the CAF on the Aalo-X site. You’ll ensure safe, reliable configuration and defend technical decisions throughout the lifecycle.

You will collaborate with operations, maintenance, QA, vendors, and design authority to meet safety and performance requirements, with a focus on operability and reliability.