Nuclear Safety Integration Lead - DOE PDSA & Readiness

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 seeks a Nuclear Safety Integration Lead to coordinate inputs for the DOE safety basis and PDSA, reporting to the Nuclear Safety Manager. You will align DOE requirements with engineering teams to ensure a complete, defensible safety case.

This high-visibility role requires strong cross-disciplinary judgment, DOE experience, and the ability to drive alignment across teams on complex analyses and regulatory interactions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nuclear/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in nuclear safety analysis, safety basis development, or technical integration at DOE facilities.
• Experience coordinating multi-discipline inputs into DOE safety basis documents such as DSAs, PDSAs, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of DOE safety-basis requirements, including 10 CFR 830 and DOE-STD-3009.
• Experience translating regulatory requirements into engineering analysis and documentation needs.
• Familiarity with probabilistic risk assessment, deterministic safety analysis, and dose-consequence methods for safety cases.
• Experience coordinating with DOE on analytical methods, codes, and assumptions for safety-basis applications.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills to present multi-discipline safety arguments clearly.
• Proven ability to manage multiple deliverables and drive cross-functional teams.
• Effective interpersonal skills across engineering, operations, and regulatory teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an integrated PDSA content, requirements, and responsibility plan that defines scope, ownership, interfaces, and delivery milestones for all contributing technical teams.
• Coordinate the preparation, integration, internal review, and technical defense of the PDSA and related DOE safety documentation, working with the DOE authorization lead and responsible technical teams.
• Translate applicable DOE safety-basis requirements and standards into specific analysis, report, and data needs for contributing engineering teams, including clear interfaces and dependencies.
• Identify analytical methods, codes, and key assumptions requiring DOE alignment, and coordinate early and ongoing engagement with DOE through the DOE authorization lead to confirm their suitability for intended safety-basis applications.
• Coordinate the integration of inputs from Risk and Reliability, including PRA, deterministic safety analysis, dose consequences, thermal-hydraulics, neutronics, fuel performance, hazards analysis, and supporting engineering information into the DOE safety case.
• Identify gaps, inconsistent assumptions, missing interfaces, and unresolved technical questions that could affect the PDSA, DOE authorization, design, resources, or schedule, and communicate them to the appropriate decision-makers.
• Establish a structured process for providing safety and risk feedback to design teams and tracking the resolution of safety-related design questions.
• Define how safety inputs are communicated to design teams, document the basis for their disposition, maintain traceability to affected analyses and requirements, and confirm closure with responsible teams.
• Facilitate technical integration meetings and working sessions to resolve cross-discipline analytical interfaces, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Track and manage the status of PDSA deliverables, technical inputs, and open items across contributing teams, escalating schedule or quality risks as appropriate.
• Support the development of responses to DOE requests for additional information, safety evaluation reports, and other regulatory interactions related to the safety basis.
• Coordinate with the nuclear safety team to ensure consistency between PDSA content and other safety basis documents, including hazard analyses, TSRs, and USQ evaluations.
• Maintain configuration management of integrated PDSA content, ensuring version control and traceability of technical inputs and assumptions across contributing disciplines.
• Support preparation for DOE readiness assessments and authorization milestones by ensuring the completeness and defensibility of the integrated safety case.

Skills

Coordination of multi-discipline input

Regulatory translation

DOE safety-basis knowledge

Probabilistic risk assessment

Deterministic safety analysis

Dose-consequence methodologies

DOE methods, codes, assumptions

Technical writing

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Interpersonal collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related discipline

Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field (preferred)

Job description

Aalo Atomics seeks a Nuclear Safety Integration Lead to coordinate inputs for the DOE safety basis and PDSA, reporting to the Nuclear Safety Manager. You will align DOE requirements with engineering teams to ensure a complete, defensible safety case.

This high-visibility role requires strong cross-disciplinary judgment, DOE experience, and the ability to drive alignment across teams on complex analyses and regulatory interactions.