Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer - Nuclear Reactors

Aalo Atomic; 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 is seeking a Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle technical ownership of assigned mechanical systems at the Critical Assembly Facility on the Aalo-X site. You will be the technical owner of system design, configuration, and performance throughout its operating life.

You will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Nuclear Safety, QA, vendors, project engineers, and the Design Authority to keep systems safe, reliable, and correctly configured while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or closely related engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in nuclear power, DOE facilities, power generation, high-hazard industry, aerospace, petrochemical facilities, or another regulated environment.
• 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.

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 systems engineering

Nuclear/DOE experience

Technical communication

Independent issue resolution

Interpretation of drawings & P&IDs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Professional Engineer license

Tools

Teamcenter

Job description

Aalo Atomics is seeking a Mechanical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle technical ownership of assigned mechanical systems at the Critical Assembly Facility on the Aalo-X site. You will be the technical owner of system design, configuration, and performance throughout its operating life.

You will work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Nuclear Safety, QA, vendors, project engineers, and the Design Authority to keep systems safe, reliable, and correctly configured while