Probabilistic Risk Assessment Engineer
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Overview
Remote
On-site
Compensation
$37-$74/hour
Job Description
Position Title: Probabilistic Risk Assessment EngineerPosition Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Probabilistic Risk Assessment Engineer opportunity.Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute to PRA work performed inside and outside of Company in coordination with plant design, deterministic and consequence safety analysis, and other disciplines.
- Ensure that the PRA is appropriate and used for the reactor design and within regulatory requirements, guidance, and standards such as risk-informed performance-based technology guidance for Non-Light Water Reactors (NEI 18-04) and ASME/ANS Non-Light Water PRA standard.
- Participate in the development of planning and scheduling for PRA related activities.
- Provide technical guidance to engineers and managers on reliability and various PRA-related topics.
- Participate in PRA peer reviews.
- Work on the development of event and fault trees, in-vessel radiological transport models, containment transport models, and mechanistic radiological release categories for PRA models.
- Work with an interdisciplinary team of engineers to establish core and reactor SSC functional, reliability, performance, safety, and quality requirements as well as support the overall design.
- Establish and maintain documentation of model development and analysis results.
- Perform engineering reviews of analyses and other engineering design media.
- Develop fault trees and event trees to reflect most up to date design using CAFTA.
- Group similar source terms for assignment to event sequence end states.
- Perform risk integration using the PRA model to report risk metrics and importance measures.
- Perform focused PRA analysis to support trade studies.
- Perform hand calculations using first principles to assess and validate more complex models for system performance, containment performance, and radiological consequences.
- Prepare topical reports describing PRA methods and analytical results for customers and regulators.
- Deliver presentations for internal management and external customers and regulators.
- B.S. in nuclear, mechanical, electrical, or aerospace engineering (or similar).
- One year or more of experience in Probabilistic Risk Assessment.
- Knowledgeable of PRA principles and familiar with the ASME/ANS Non-Light Water PRA standard.
- Knowledge on risk-informed performance-based regulations and applications.
- Knowledgeable of PRA fundamentals in data, human reliability, accident analysis, severe accidents, and source terms assessments.
- Experience with PRA software: CAFTA and FRANX in particular; SAPHIRE, Risk Spectrum, or other similar software still considered valuable.
- Experience with performing assessments using codes such as GOTHIC, MELCOR, RADTRAD, or similar tools is a plus.
- Demonstrated technical writing and communication skills.
- Experience with sodium cooled reactors or other advanced reactors preferred.
- Fluent in spoken and written English language.
- A broad understanding of the various engineering disciplines and how they interrelate in the design of a Nuclear Power Plant.
- High degree of trust, integrity, open communication, respect for others, and teamwork
- Travel Required: 0-5%
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $37-$74/hr (Pay rates are approved based on candidate location, education and experience)
- Location: 100% Remote
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status
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