Principal Engineer - Mechanical-1273-SRS-Aiken, SC
Deadline: 12-30-2024(All official documents must be completed and returned before the deadline for candidate consideration.)
Projected Start Date: 1/20/2025
Duration: 1 YEAR with TWO (2) One Year Renewal Options
One (1) Position Available!
US Citizenship Required
**Hybrid schedule: 90% onsite (4 days) 10% remote.**

JOB SUMMARY
Define scope of technical programs and develop effective, quality solutions to challenges which involve unique or controversial problems. Creatively meet all company and industry requirements and apply site systems to achieve quality, timely and cost-effective results. Give quality guidance and assistance to less senior professionals on related tasks.

Duties/Responsibilities:
Apply technical experience in field of specialization or broad-based experience in multiple technical fields, to resolve complex problems.

Incorporate advanced technical practices and a variety of complex features such as complicated technical requirements, application of new or special materials or processes and difficult coordination or oversight requirements into problem solving and program planning.

Provide leadership in determining solutions to complex problems and be recognized as having expertise in a functional area(s) of technical expertise.

Provide direction and position responsibility both inside and outside department lines on programs seeking new approaches to problems and new application of existing engineering or scientific principles.

Evaluate the results of programs and prepares reports and recommendations based on these evaluations.

Identify and recommend improvements where established technology components and methodology are inadequate for solution.

Keep informed of the advancement of technology as applied through one's area of technology. Prepare plans including schedules, budgets and personnel requirements for solving technical tasks identified by management.

Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work performed.

Develop schedules, monitor progress, monitor expenditures of budget and review quality of work performed.

Communicate results and objectives verbally and in manuscripts form to customers colleagues and management.

Occasionally prepare reports for external publication.

Enhance expertise in field through leadership in local technical societies. Demonstrate creative ability through medium of patent disclosures, problem solving, engineering reports, technical papers and articles.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
Ph.D. degree in applicable science or engineering discipline and 5+ years’ experience. OR A MS with 8+ years’ experience. OR A BS with 10+ years’ experience or more.

Experience/Skills:
Candidate must demonstrate ten (10) years of recent design experience, four (4) of which shall include process pressure protection. Candidate must possess a working knowledge of Codes and Standards applicable to process piping, such as ANSI/ASME B31.3. Experience with 2D MicroStation Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) is preferred. Ability to use Windows Microsoft Office applications is required. Previous SRS Design Engineering experience is preferred.

General knowledge of electrical/control systems, connection diagrams, layout plans, logic diagrams, panel layout details, P&ID’s, and structure loading calculations and Deactivation and Decommissioning of Facilities.

Candidate must be able to perform field walk-downs of the job site for the engineering work being performed. These walk-downs may involve construction sites with uneven surfaces and work in progress, walking for distances over a half mile, climbing ladders to access remote areas, dressing out in protective clothing and environments where a respirator is required.

• Knowledge of Construction Codes and Standards.
• Produce written documents with clearly organized structure and grammar. Ability to operate Windows Microsoft Office applications.
• Communicate orally with management, project team members and DOE Customers regarding ACP project scope.
• Must be able to pass SRS Radiological Worker Training, if required.
• Must be able to walk down facilities and systems in non-climate controlled environments.
• Experience in environmental remediation is preferred.

PREFERRED SKILLS
• Familiarity with DOE Orders/Guides, EPA and SCDHEC Regulations with regards to Environmental Remediation and/or Facility Disposition.
• Familiarity with SRS procedures, engineering, operations, protocols, etc.
• Radiological and/or nuclear facility experience • Familiarity/experience in 2D Microstation Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD)

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Area Completion Projects (ACP) Work Planning and Control
• Asbestos Awareness Training
• Assisted Hazard Analysis (AHA) application User
• Behavior Based Safety Team Safety Workshop
• Conduct of Operations (CONOPS) for Engineers
• Consolidated Hazard Analysis Process (CHAP)
• Confined Space Decision Maker and Entry Program Training • Hazard Analysis for Engineers • HEC – Lockout Folder Function
• Initial Hazardous Energy Control
• Impact of TSCA Waste Project Execution
• Life Safety and Remote Worker Briefing
• OSHA’s Revised HAZCOM
• Pollution Prevention and Waste
• Project Management & Engineering Risk
• Quality Assurance Orientation NQR-1 Delta Training
• Quality Assurance Overview (DOE NTC)
• Rad Worker 2
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
• Scaffold Safety for Users
• SAF-152E, Quality Assurance Overview
• Safe Practices for Non-Manual Workers
• Suspect Counterfeit Items SRS Program Overview

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
No DOE Security Clearance Required

Work Hours:
Up to a 40-hour work week is scheduled. SRNS utilizes various work schedules including 5/8s (8 hour/day; five days per week), 4/10’s (10 hours/day; four days per week), and 9/80’s (9 hours/day, five days on week AA and four days on week BB. Work week excludes SRNS holidays. Each workday has 30-minute lunch. Overtime will be expected at times to meet deliverables and will be utilized at the discretion of the Manager.

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