Nuclear Facilities Engineer
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Serve as a Nuclear Facilities Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, specializing in electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering matters for plutonium facilities. This role involves performing engineering studies, designing various support structures, and ensuring facility integrity for national security.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for nuclear facility electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering matters
- Perform engineering studies, including short circuit, device coordination, equipment sizing, exterior lighting, fault current, and arc flash for medium and low voltage equipment
- Handle demolition, installation, upgrades, and repairs within plutonium facilities
- Become familiar with pressure safety, leak testing, piping supports, and flow requirements
- Design cranes, crane girders/support structures, canopies, equipment support stands, piping/conduit supports, wall/floor/ceiling penetrations, and concrete slabs
- Work alongside junior and senior engineers to complete collaborative full-system design solutions through mentoring and leadership (for Engineer 2 level)
Requirements
- Awareness of nuclear facility engineering in nuclear criticality safety analysis, safety basis, system engineer, project engineer, or design engineer
- Awareness of nuclear facility engineering work planning and control methods
- Awareness of engineering work, planning, construction, control methods, and project/process engineering/management practices
- Awareness of industry, regulatory, or national codes and standards, engineering principles and procedures, design guides, appropriate standards, and administrative practices
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited college or university
- 2+ years of practical work experience in nuclear facility engineering for Engineer 1; 3+ years for Engineer 2
Nice to Have
- Awareness of engineering maintenance techniques and construction methodologies
- Awareness of relevant Laboratory procedures, standards, and guides
- Familiarity with LANL engineering processes and procedures
- Current registration as an Engineer-in-Training (EIT)
- Professional Engineering certification
Benefits
About Los Alamos National Laboratory
Multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security.