Fire Protection Engineer (Program Improvement Support Specialist)

About the role

Edgewater Technical Associates is seeking a Fire Protection Engineer (Program Improvement Support Specialist) to support the Savannah River Site. The successful candidate will perform internal fire protection related assessments and observations; analyze the results of both internal and external fire protection related assessments; and work with Fire Protection Engineers (FPE), Design Authority Engineers (DAE) and Facility Operations personnel to effect resolutions to identified issues, gaps and vulnerabilities in the Fire Protection Program.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, review, assess, and extract relevant information from assessments, program documents, procedures and technical reports with little or no supervision.
• Support development, maintenance, and administration of Fire Protection related databases regarding S/RID and NFPA requirements including, but not limited to, the Fire Protection Database System.
• Perform Causal Analyses using CST and other assessment related sources to assist in effectively designing and implementing both root cause-based remediation and pro-active based resolution.
• Work with FPEs, DAEs and Operations personnel to revise/develop procedures, revise/develop training protocol and to develop/recommend other implementation actions as needed to support compliance with DOE-STD-1066-2012 and Site Manual 2Q.

Education

Bachelor of Science or Associate Degree in Business, Communications, Education or Engineering, with 10 years equivalent experience in project technical support or document/configuration control in nuclear/chemical facilities/environment.

Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with electronic document control and configuration management systems (e.g., SRS Linking Document Database (LDD) or Fire Protection Database System (FPDS)).
• Prior experience with S/RID requirements (e.g., Safety Basis) implementation at SRS.
• Prior QA auditor experience.
• Prior Causal Analysis experience.
• Interpersonal skills to establish and cultivate positive working relationships and interfaces with both internal and external customers.
• Fluency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Conduct of Operations training.
• Operational Readiness Review or comparable experience.

Other Job Requirements

Must be a US Citizen.