Senior Nuclear Engineer

Responsibilities

• Concept development for future propulsion plants including fluid system design (types and sizes of the systems)
• Analysis (impacts to safety, cost, schedule, performance, operations, and maintenance)
• Arrangement integration (where things are located on the boat)
• Component development (what is needed to support the overall plant design)

Requirements

• Frequent interface with multiple Electric Boat engineering disciplines, vendors, Newport News Shipbuilding, Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), and NAVSEA 08

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical, chemical, marine, or nuclear engineering
• 5+ years of related post graduate engineering experience

Preferred Experience

• Working on fluid piping systems, components and/or arrangements
• Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and/or commercial nuclear experience
• Experience as a Naval nuclear operator or nuclear test engineer

Skills

• Strong interpersonal, organizational, project management, oral and written communication skills
• Detail oriented, highly motivated, able to work independently, and interact with other groups and organizations in an engineering environment
• Desired skills include: reading and developing diagrams/schematics and construction drawings; deriving requirements from specifications; making material and component selections; and performing engineering calculations