Job Description Summary
Serve as the Engineering Manager - Nuclear Criticality Safety for NRC licensed activities under SNM-1097. Provide and direct criticality safety technical support of the Global Nuclear Fuel - America’s (GNF-A) commercial BWR nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. In addition, provide and direct technical criticality safety support of the design, analysis, and licensing of advanced High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) fuel cycle facilities involving UF6 deconversion, metallization, and metal alloy fuel fabrication pursuant to 10CFR70. Ensure criticality safety program compliance and recommend changes to the criticality safety program including design criteria, methods, analysis, procedures, and training.
About the Role
Lead and advocate professional development of nuclear criticality safety engineer professional staff.
Responsibilities
Perform neutronics calculations and documented nuclear criticality safety evaluations.
Assess normal and credible abnormal operating conditions.
Determine criticality safety limits for controlled parameters.
Specify criticality control requirements and functionality.
Perform technical verifications of documented CSAs.
Lead and coordinate nuclear criticality safety engineering technical staff.
Review and approve design changes.
Ensure that IROFS are designed and constructed to perform their intended safety function.
Recommend methods improvements and validation of Monte Carlo codes.
Provide criticality safety support of integrated safety analyses and configuration management.
Provide advice and counsel to area managers on criticality safety control measures.
Qualify as the primary Nuclear Safety Advisor in support of the site emergency organization.
Assess the effectiveness of the criticality safety program through scheduled internal and external audit programs.
Provide technical counsel to GNF-A nuclear packaging engineering and logistics.
Participate in cross-functional team of Operations, Engineering and Safety staff.
Participate in the ISA process as a representative of criticality safety.
Perform reviews of supporting safety bases documentation.
Approve proposed changes in process conditions or equipment involving fissile material.
Work closely with technical leaders, functional managers, project management.
Communicate/collaborate with a cross-functional team.