Senior Process/Chemical Engineer - Remote

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization focused on delivering solutions within the Nuclear sector in the United States. They are seeking a Senior Process/Chemical Engineer to develop and conceptualize system architecture for nuclear facilities, ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards while producing high-quality engineering documents.

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. You select, test, and specify 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 complex problems or technical issues and ensure necessary change control is implemented
• Works independently receiving only minimal guidance
• May act as a resource for other colleagues with less experience
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or related field
• Minimum of five (5) 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
• 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