Nuclear Engineer

Background

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) The NRC prides itself on creating a work environment rich in opportunity, diversity, leadership, training, teamwork and work life balance.

Begin a challenging career as part of a select group of professionals who protect people and the environment with the peaceful use of nuclear materials in medicine, industry, and research.

Duties

The position is with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), Division of Safety Systems (DSS) and Division of Advanced Reactors, Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities (DANU).

NOTE: Duty location is negotiable after selection.

As a Nuclear Engineer with DANU, you will be responsible for the following pertaining to reactor core or fuel design, nuclear methods, reactor systems and evaluations of operating performance for operating or new light-water or non-light-water power or non-power production or utilization facility applications:

• Performing and supporting reviews and evaluations of the reactor core, fuel and thermal-hydraulic systems design, process design parameters, nuclear methods, and performance.
• Supporting the resolution of complex technical issues and licensing problems.
• Providing in-depth technical assistance and authoritative advice relating to the safety aspects of the reactor core and systems design.
• Performing complex reviews and evaluations of nuclear and thermal-hydraulic aspects of the reactor core under steady-state, transient, and accident conditions, including issues pertaining to core physics, fuel behavior, and reactivity control system and control rod design.
• Performing reactor systems analyses using advanced computer simulation for licensing reviews, including independent calculations and engineering analyses to confirm or verify the applicants' or licensees' predictions of systems and component performance, including fuel and core performance, under postulated transient and accident conditions.
• Reviewing and evaluating technical policy issues related to reactor systems methodologies and requirements for proposed designs.
• Preparing safety evaluations (SEs), audit reports, and other documentation and presenting the results to internal and external stakeholders (e.g., NRC Commission, NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, international regulatory counterparts, industry and non-governmental organization representatives, the public).

Qualifications

Education: A Degree in Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

Combination of Education and Experience: College-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.

The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure. Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
2. Written Test. Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses. Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under the Education requirement, aboveRelated curriculum. Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least one year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance.

Be sure to review the complete details of the Qualifications sections in the official Job Opening Announcement (JOA) at USAJOBS.gov.

How to Apply

Visit www.nrc.gov and click on Job Openings in the Spotlight column. Scroll to locate the Nuclear Engineer (JOA Number NRR-2024-0039) and apply by September 21, 2024.

NOTE: Duty location is negotiable after selection.

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