Lead Piping Stress Engineer – Nuclear

Role Overview

• Provides senior level technical direction and supervision to the project team members in his/her discipline.
• Establishes project task schedules and budgets for his/her discipline to meet overall project requirements.
• Coordinates activities between disciplines.
• Is responsible for successful completion of project deliverables to meet all technical, quality, and project controls expectations.
• Serves as a technical liaison with the client and a lead technical resource on projects.
• Reviews complex calculations and approves simple calculations.
• Provides technical guidance to project team members.
• Ensures that calculations are technically sound and in accordance with project requirements.
• Reviews and approves simple system/structural designs and prepares and reviews complex system/structural designs to ensure completeness, accuracy, quality, constructability, and operability.
• Performs engineering review of drawings.
• Reviews design input for complex system/structures.
• Defines client expectations for drawings.
• Coordinates interface between design and engineering.
• Actively participates in design reviews to ensure quality, constructability, and operability.
• Prepares and reviews major system, installation, and material specifications.
• Defines technical and commercial requirements, including scheduling of vendor submittals needed for design input.
• Prepares bid evaluations for complex systems and installation scopes.
• Participates in bid negotiations with vendors.
• May evaluate change orders on behalf of the client.
• Prepares and reviews single-discipline, complex reports/studies.
• Participates in the preparation of multi-discipline reports.
• Reviews studies and reports to ensure that conclusions are technically sound, cost-effective, and clearly communicated.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Aerospace, or Structural/Civil Engineering, from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission-approved program
• P.E. license
• 12 or more years of relevant experience
• Extensive knowledge of ASME B31.1 and ASME B&PV Section III piping codes
• Knowledge of the design, selection, and application of pipe supporting elements
• Working knowledge of commercially available piping products and their application
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Valued but Not Required Skills and Experience:
• The ability to navigate a 3D CAD model
• Experience with AutoPIPE or PIPESTRESS software
• Knowledge of gas dynamics and hydraulic transients
• Knowledge of pipe condition assessment
• Experience with ANSYS Workbench and Mechanical
• AI & Automation at Sargent & Lundy

Benefits

• Health Plans: Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life & Accident Insurance
• Disability Coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Back-Up Daycare
• FSA & HSA
• 401(k)
• Pre-Tax Commuter Account
• Merit Scholarship Program
• Employee Discount Program
• Corporate Charitable Giving Program
• Tuition Assistance
• First Professional Licensure Bonus
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Paid Annual Personal/Sick Time (PST)
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Flexible Work Arrangements