Lead Piping Stress Engineer 2 - Nuclear

Sargent & Lundy is a trusted leader in nuclear engineering, design, and licensing. They are seeking a Lead Piping Stress Engineer to provide senior level technical direction and supervision to project teams, ensuring successful completion of project deliverables while coordinating activities between disciplines.

Responsibilities:

• 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, with an emphasis in solid mechanics, structural analysis, theory of elasticity, metallurgy, and finite element analysis
• 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
• 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 ADP