Ceramics Process Engineer

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Framatome is a major global leader in the nuclear energy market recognized for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the international nuclear fleet. Offering a full range of reactor services requires an unparalleled passion and sense of purpose connected to our company’s mission and vision.

Essential to Framatome’s mission are our employees who provide a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experience that support us in providing competitive, reliable, and safe nuclear power plants. Our commitment to our employees is recognized through our competitive total rewards package. Enjoy competitive compensation, generous benefits and take part in innovative projects and development opportunities.

Framatome is seeking a Ceramics Process Engineer III for our Horn Rapids Road office in Richland, Washington. Process Engineering support of production activities: The Ceramics Product Center manufactures uranium and carbide ceramics for nuclear fuel fabrication.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Troubleshoot and identify root cause solutions for manufacturing equipment, quality issues or reliability problems.
• Use problem solving ability to define an issue, collecting data to quantify it, evaluating the data to support informed decisions, and implementing solutions all within a scheduled timeframe.
• Develop a design of experiments plan for process qualifications, complete tests to implement the manufacturing process, and provide supporting documentation.
• Write procedures to direct operators on how to perform a task with sequential written steps. Identify best practice actions to prevent errors or introduce unintended consequences.
• Support manufacturing by working with operators and maintenance to evaluate equipment needs, preparing and reviewing documents, and interacting with customers to communicate information about their product.

Travel: Occasional/sporadic