Process/Chemical Engineer Energy - Remote

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization seeking a Process/Chemical Engineer Energy for their Oak Ridge, TN office. The role involves delivering engineering, operations, and project management services within the Nuclear sector, focusing on both legacy and new build nuclear clients.

Responsibilities:

• Serves both legacy and new build nuclear clients who are designing, building, upgrading, operating and maintaining nuclear power generation and fuel cycle assets
• Executes Small Modular Reactor and nuclear fuel cycle facility projects
• Develops and conceptualizes system architecture, flow diagrams, and piping/instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) for nuclear facilities, auxiliary systems, or fuel cycle models
• Performs rigorous evaluations to ensure that systems, structures and components maintain chemical safety, criticality controls, radiation shielding, and defense-in-depth principles under normal and off-normal conditions, including accident scenarios
• Ensures that all engineering designs align with local, state, and federal standards, including DOE or NRC regulations
• Selects, tests, and specifies mechanical components, valves, and vessels to ensure they withstand highly regulated and hazardous environments
• Evaluates test or validation data to improve the efficiency of existing nuclear facilities
• Develops key design deliverables such as Process drawings, Process Flow Diagrams and Process & Instrumentation Diagrams/Engineering Flow Diagrams
• Prepares, checks and/or approves calculations including mass, energy and flow balances, and pipe and equipment sizing
• Prepares engineering documents such as specifications for process equipment
• Ensures that design deliverables are of a high standard and compliant with relevant standards, regulations and customer specific standards, including nuclear quality assurance standards
• Ensures that design consultants and sub-contractors deploy suitably qualified and experienced personnel
• Produces documentation that is technically accurate, grammatically correct, correctly formatted and professionally presented
• Develops resolutions to technical issues and ensure necessary change control is implemented
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or related field
• Minimum of two (2) years post-baccalaureate experience
• Previous experience providing engineering support to nuclear facility design, construction or operations
• Strong communication skills in a challenging, multi-tiered environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Knowledge of key NRC regulations, design codes and standards for commercial nuclear facilities required
• Knowledge in the use of related design software codes, including process simulation software
• Must be a U.S. citizen in order to be considered
• Professional Engineering (PE) License desired
• Design of Commercial and Department of Energy nuclear reactor projects
• Design of Commercial and Department of Energy nuclear fuel cycle facilities
• Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) experience