Principal Technical Advisor (Aiken, SC) 647771

Great opportunity to join a talented team with an outstanding company that values their employees and their career! OLH offers competitive salaries, benefit packages, holidays, and paid time off.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Provide technical oversight, technical support and engineering leadership for chemical process systems and unit operations (e.g., solvent extraction, dissolving, evaporation, ion-exchange, precipitation, calcination, etc.) in the Savannah River H-Canyon and HB-Line operating nuclear materials processing plants. Including:
Provide evaluations and recommendations to Engineering Management on nuclear operations

• Perform and support site organization in mission and strategic planning for H-Canyon and HB-Line
• Provide technical oversight to facility engineering organizations and mentoring of junior engineers
• Develop process flow sheets
• Direct SRNL in process flowsheet development and anomaly evaluation
• Perform technical reviews of engineering and nuclear safety documents
• Provide direction to safety basis development strategy and input selection
• Lead technical teams to resolve division-wide issues
• Provide general engineering support to ensure safe facility operations
• Perform daily work duties in accordance with Site procedure E7 and 11Q

Work Hours:
A 40-hour work week is scheduled. SRNS utilizes various work schedules; including 5/8s (8 hours/day; five days per week), 4/10s (10 hours/day; four days per week), and 9/80s (9 hours/day, five days on week A and 4 days on week B). Workweek excludes SRNS holidays. SRNS Management will determine best schedule depending on work needs. Each workday has a 30-minute lunch.

Area Security Access:
A security clearance is not initially required; however, candidates without a clearance must be capable of obtaining a Q clearance to perform assigned duties.

Education

BS degree in chemical engineering from an accredited 4-year institution

Experience/Skills

• Familiarity with H-Area and F-Area Separation processes is preferred.
• Technical and Safety related knowledge of SRS Fuel processing including PUREX and HM oxidation reduction flowsheets, and electrolytic dissolution is preferred.
• Minimum 30 years of experience of with DOE nuclear material processing.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills.
• Candidate must have ability to walkdown systems in the field.
• Teamwork skills for a high-matrix project environment.
• Must have understanding and have experience with the following properties and characteristics of nuclear materials such as 239Pu, 238Pu, 237Np, 233U, HEU, LEU, NU, 241Am, and other unique and rare isotopes.
• Experience with Nuclear system operations and supporting technical bases for the following: building air supply, exhaust, exhaust filtration (HEPA and Sand filter), chemical storage and distribution systems, steam, cooling water supply and return, compressed air (breathing, instrument, process, and plant), electrical, nuclear criticality alarm systems and their control schemes including distributed controls.
• Ability to integrate nuclear safety, operations, and chemical processes.
• Ability to interact with DNFSB to discuss/resolve technical issues and concerns.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance

OLH Inc., an Atlanta-based firm, was founded in 1993 to offer general consulting services in the areas of Project and Construction Management and Staff Augmentation. A female and minority owned firm, OLH Inc. (OLH) is a certified Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) in states throughout the Southeast and is a certified Small Business Administration (SBA) Economically Disadvantaged Woman-owned Small Business. Other offices are in Augusta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina and Huntsville, Alabama. OLH offers professional services including Project and Construction Management, Program Management, Software Development, and Staff Augmentation to federal, state, and local government agencies.

If you are a U.S. citizen, and your resume and experience meet the job description and requirements, please apply online. Upon review of your resume, we will contact you if additional information is needed.

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Recruitment Department

OLH, Inc.

Office: 470-242-0185

Direct Email: hr1@olhinc.com

NOTE: OLH will not accept resumes from third-party recruiters/staffing agencies. OLH will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.