Senior Electrical Engineer (Generation) - Nuclear

WSP in the U.S.; Hailey (ID); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

WSP USA is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer (Generation) - Nuclear to join our Power & Energy team. You will lead electrical design, analysis, and lifecycle support for nuclear projects, coordinating with utility owners, reactor vendors, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, compliant solutions.

This role focuses on Class 1E systems, licensing requirements, and project delivery from feasibility through turnover, with emphasis on quality, risk management, and mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• PE license in the US preferred.
• 10+ years nuclear industry experience.
• Experience with Class 1E systems and licensing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for nuclear generation projects, including operating plant modifications and new reactor development.
• Lead electrical design, systems engineering, analysis, verification, and technical oversight across the project lifecycle.
• Prepare and independently review nuclear-grade calculations, drawings, specifications, and design change packages.
• Coordinate electrical interfaces across instrumentation/controls, mechanical, civil/structural, and procurement teams.
• Ensure engineering work complies with nuclear procedures, quality standards, and licensing requirements.

Skills

Nuclear electrical design

Lead engineer

Power systems analysis

Regulatory compliance

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer license (US)

Job description

Job Description

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Electrical Engineer (Generation) - Nuclear to join our Power & Energy Team. The candidate will be involved in projects with our Power Generation Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.

The Senior Electrical Engineer (Generation) - Nuclear will provide technical leadership for nuclear generation projects, including operating plant modifications, new nuclear and advanced reactor development, life extension, plant restart and recommissioning, and owner’s engineer or program management assignments. The successful candidate will bring demonstrated nuclear electrical engineering experience and a working knowledge of the regulatory, licensing, quality, and configuration-control requirements that govern safety-related and important-to-safety structures, systems, and components.

This role will lead and perform electrical design, systems engineering, analysis, verification, and technical oversight across the project life cycle, from feasibility and conceptual design through detailed design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and operating support. The engineer will work directly with utility owners, reactor technology developers, architect-engineers, equipment suppliers, constructors, and multidisciplinary project teams. The position is accountable for technical decisions, engineering quality, design integration, and timely resolution of complex electrical system and equipment issues.

Your Impact

• Lead electrical engineering for operating nuclear plants, new nuclear, and advanced reactor projects, serving as the responsible engineer or discipline technical lead for assigned work.
• Design, analyze, and modify Class 1E and non-Class 1E AC and DC power systems, emergency power, batteries and chargers, switchgear, transformers, motors, cables, grounding, and protection and control systems.
• Prepare and independently review nuclear-grade calculations, drawings, specifications, design change packages, equipment procurement documents, and technical reports.
• Apply nuclear safety classification, quality classification, seismic categorization, equipment qualification, separation, single-failure, licensing-basis, design-basis, and configuration-management requirements.
• Lead power system studies, including load flow, short-circuit, motor starting, voltage drop, cable ampacity, grounding, battery sizing, protection and coordination, and arc-flash analysis.
• Support plant modifications, walkdowns, constructability reviews, vendor evaluations, factory and site testing, commissioning, outage execution, troubleshooting, and resolution of field and equipment issues.
• Coordinate electrical interfaces across instrumentation and controls, mechanical, civil/structural, fire protection, licensing, cybersecurity, quality, procurement, construction, and operations teams.
• Manage technical scope, schedule, budget, risks, assumptions, interfaces, and deliverables while ensuring engineering work is accurate, complete, timely, and compliant with approved nuclear procedures.
• Provide trusted technical advice to clients, reactor vendors, equipment suppliers, and contractors; mentor engineers and contribute to proposals, capability development, and follow-on work. Prepare and independently review nuclear-grade calculations, drawings, specifications, design change packages, equipment procurement documents, and technical reports.
• Apply nuclear safety classification, quality classification, seismic categorization, equipment qualification, separation, single-failure, licensing-basis, design-basis, and configuration-management requirements.

Nuclear Codes, Standards, and Regulatory Framework

Apply the codes, standards, regulatory requirements, regulatory guidance, and client procedures invoked by the facility licensing basis, design basis, contract, and approved quality assurance program. Relevant experience should include several of the following:

Requirements

• Safety-related, important-to-safety, and non-safety-related electrical systems and equipment
• Class 1E AC and DC power systems, where applicable
• Nuclear safety classification, quality classification, seismic classification, electrical separation, equipment qualification, and single-failure requirements
• Nuclear configuration management, design control, independent verification, procurement, corrective action, and nonconformance processes
• Applicable NRC requirements, ASME NQA-1, IEEE nuclear power standards, NFPA requirements, and other project-specific electrical codes and standards
• Equivalent Canadian or international nuclear regulatory requirements and standards, where applicable

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
• Professional Engineer license in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of nuclear industry experience, including operating plant, architect-engineer, owner’s engineer, reactor vendor, or nuclear equipment supplier experience.
• Experience with operating plant modifications, new nuclear or advanced reactor projects, small modular reactors, microreactors, life extension, power uprates, or decommissioning.
• Experience in one or more specialized areas: Class 1E systems, environmental qualification, seismic qualification, station blackout, alternate AC power, DC systems, electrical separation, fire safe shutdown, equipment reliability, aging management, or commercial-grade dedication.
• Experience with nuclear cyber security interfaces for digital electrical and protection systems.
• Qualification as a design verifier, nuclear lead engineer, or technical authority under an established nuclear engineering program.
• Operating nuclear plant experience in electrical design engineering, electrical systems engineering, plant modifications, outage support, equipment reliability, commissioning, restart, or operational readiness.
• Experience interfacing with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, or other nuclear regulators and authorized nuclear inspection organizations.
• Existing unescorted nuclear plant access.

Leadership Expectations

• Protect nuclear safety and quality, including the willingness to stop, question, document, and escape when requirements, assumptions, or field conditions are unclear.
• Exercise conservative technical judgment and maintain clear traceability from requirements and design inputs through analysis, verification, installation, testing, and final records.
• Accept accountability for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and configuration control of assigned engineering work, and ensure approved design criteria, procedures, codes, standards, and quality requirements are applied.
• Build trust with nuclear clients through technical credibility, disciplined execution, and transparent communication of risk, uncertainty, and trade-offs.
• Develop others through coaching, rigorous review, and practical transfer of nuclear engineering knowledge.

Working Conditions

This position may require travel to nuclear facilities, vendor facilities, construction sites, and client offices. Work may include plant walkdowns, outage support, field assignments, and access to industrial or radiologically controlled environments. Employment and site access may be subject to client-specific background screening, security, fitness-for-duty, training, medical, and drug and alcohol testing requirements.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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