What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nuclear Shielding and Criticality Engineer position at Protingent?
Job Description
Position Title: Nuclear Shielding and Criticality Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Remote contract Nuclear Shielding and Criticality Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Position Title: Nuclear Shielding and Criticality Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Remote contract Nuclear Shielding and Criticality Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform radiation shielding design and analysis for advanced nuclear reactors, including calculating dose rates, activation rates, neutron fluence rates, and energy deposition rates.
- Develop radiation sources based on material activation analysis for non-fuel in-vessel components.
- Perform criticality calculations and develop upper subcritical limits (USLs).
- Establish and maintain formal documentation of analysis results.
- Work at the company is dynamic and evolutionary. As such, new responsibilities often arise, and you should be capable of and excited about learning and applying specialized skills.
- B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering or equivalent experience; Advanced degree and 5 years of relevant experience with nuclear analysis preferred. For less than 5 years’ experience, a college transcript is required.
- Strong MCNP skills and experience with performing radiation shielding calculations for both gammas and neutrons are required. Experience in criticality safety desirable.
- Candidate should be familiar with variance reduction using MCNP, and features such as surface source read/write, mesh tallies, and weight windows. Familiarity with ADVANTG for weight windows generation is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal and communication skills required.
- Ability and professionalism to work within published regulatory guidelines required.
- Experience working under NQA-1 quality program desired.
- Strong computational expertise desired.
- Experience with Attila /Attila4MC and computed aided drafting (e.g., SolidWorks, SpaceClaim/ANSYS, Cubit) is a plus.
- Fast reactor experience a plus.
- Strong programming skills in any language is a plus, and Python is commonly used in this position.
- Knowledgeable or highly motivated to quickly learn basic nuclear reactor design concepts to meaningfully support engineering team.
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $60-$90/hr.
- Location: 100% Remote Acceptable
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person statu
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Salary : $60 - $90
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