Nuclear Safety Analysis Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Safety Analysis Engineers, Safety Analysts, and Specialists
• Establish team priorities, allocate resources, and manage workload across multiple projects
• Conduct performance evaluations and support professional development of team members
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, safety consciousness, and continuous improvement
• Recruit and build a high-performing safety analysis team
• Establish and maintain safety analysis standards, procedures, and best practices
• Manage departmental budget and resource planning

Safety Analysis Program Management

• Oversee deterministic and probabilistic safety analyses for the IMSR design
• Direct the development and analysis of Design Basis Accidents (DBAs) and Beyond Design Basis Accidents (BDBAs)
• Evaluate plant response to postulated initiating events
• Manage assessment of safety systems and engineered safety features performance
• Direct dose consequence and radiological release scenario analyses
• Oversee sensitivity and uncertainty analyses programs
• Ensure integration of safety analyses across multiple engineering project teams

Regulatory and Licensing Leadership

• Prepare safety analysis chapters for licensing documentation including Preliminary Safety Analysis Report (PSAR) and Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) for NRC/CNSC licensing
• Oversee development of DOE-required safety analyses including Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA) and Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) in accordance with DOE-STD-3009
• Direct development of key safety decisions including target performance of structures, systems, and components (SSCs), safety system responses to normal and off-normal operations, and facility security considerations
• Establish classification rules and terminology for safety SSCs, including application of the hierarchy of controls and Defense in Depth principles to ensure safety
• Oversee analysis of most limiting potential dose consequences (e.g., unmitigated or Maximum Hypothetical Accident scenarios) to support Natural Phenomena Hazard (NPH) Design Category (NDC) categorization
• Ensure validity assessment of selected safety document format and content, applicability of SSC classifications, and other graded approaches
• Lead regulatory review processes and coordinate responses to technical questions from regulatory bodies (CNSC, NRC, DOE)
• Ensure all analyses comply with applicable regulatory requirements and guidance
• Represent the company in regulatory meetings and technical discussions
• Oversee development of technical specifications and operational limits
• Manage external consultants and contractors supporting safety analysis activities

Strategic Planning and Communication

• Develop long-term safety analysis strategy aligned with company licensing and deployment goals
• Collaborate closely with licensing team to support regulatory submissions and licensing strategy
• Identify and implement improvements to safety analysis methods and tools
• Present safety analysis results and strategies to senior leadership and board of directors
• Interface with Engineering Director and executive team on safety-related decisions
• Coordinate with other engineering managers to ensure integrated safety approach
• Support business development activities with safety analysis expertise
• Represent the company at industry conferences and technical forums

Modeling and Simulation

• Develop and validate computer models for safety analysis using industry-standard codes
• Build thermal-hydraulic models of reactor systems and components
• Perform single and coupled physics simulations
• Validate models against experimental data and benchmarks
• Document modeling assumptions, methodologies, and results

Documentation and Reporting

• Create detailed technical reports documenting analysis methodologies, assumptions, and results
• Create clear visualizations and presentations of analysis results
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of safety analysis activities
• Contribute to technical publications and conference papers
• Develop and maintain analysis procedures and quality assurance documentation

Quality Assurance and Documentation

• Ensure comprehensive documentation of safety analysis methodologies, assumptions, and results
• Maintain quality assurance program for safety analysis activities
• Oversee configuration management of safety analysis models and tools
• Ensure compliance with nuclear quality assurance requirements (CSA N286.7, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, NQA-1, DOE O 414.1D)
• Manage internal and external technical reviews of safety analysis work