Senior Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical Engineer

Company Overview

Blue Energy's mission is to unlock energy abundance, energy affordability, energy security, and turn-key decarbonization by developing the fastest path to deploying new nuclear MWs at scale. We are utilizing shipyard manufacturing supply chains and techniques from offshore oil and wind to reduce the cost of nuclear plants by over 60% and the manufacturing timeline to 24 months. Blue Energy is a platform technology that makes use of the latest NRC-approved reactors and is in negotiations with existing nuclear and industrial sites, enabling a much faster regulatory pathway to deploy our first unit. With our innovative centralized shipyard manufacturing approach, we can put nuclear power on a cost-reduction learning curve akin to wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries.

As a Senior Engineer, you are the asset owner's representative in the engineering realm, collaboratively optimizing all technical aspects of the plant design, construction and execution with the goal of maximizing profits, by decreasing CapEX and OpEx while increasing generation revenue, while ensuring the new plant meets all operational, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Specifically, as Electrical and / or I&C Engineer, you will be primary responsibility for integrating all High, Medium and Low Voltage systems into the Power Distribution Center (PDC) architecture that will allow safe operation and control of the Blue Energy plant systems from the control room. From an I&C perspective, your role will be to ensure all procured equipment has the appropriate reliability, redundancy and maintainability (including sparing) for all instrumentation and control equipment and that it seamlessly integrates with the Blue Energy Distributed Control System (DCS). NERC compliance and ERCOT integration will be expected given the expected site location and appropriate cybersecurity consideration will need to be implemented. The role will be expected to develop and implement all commissioning testing and activities required to allow start-up in accordance with the integrated project schedule.

Expectations :

• Raise issues and concerns quickly, we strive for a culture where everyone can communicate openly so problems can be resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible. This is as important for technical issues as it is for non-technical and personnel issues. The longer things go "unmentioned", the longer they "fester" and the more painful they are to resolve.
• Budget and Schedule are important! Everyone, as owners and owners representatives, is ultimately accountable for accomplishing our goals on time and on budget. However, if "Doing it Right" means we need to spend a little more time or money, raise the issue to me and we will discuss the best path forward. It's a balance and we can address all "gray" areas as a team.
• People make mistakes, especially when developing a First of a Kind product. Be open with mistakes of yourself and others, we want to ensure we understand every error, potential error or near miss so that we establish engineered controls or procedural steps to prevent recurrence. These errors, omissions and oversights can be resolved in a professional manner without people fearing reprisal, if we build the culture the right way. We are all responsible for building this kind of working environment.

Responsibilities :

Proactively provide support to the Licensing team and identify issues that need oversight by leadership to ensure resolution

Team leadership will likely involve supervision of other Blue Energy employees and / or contracted staff.

Qualifications :

Familiarity / proficiency with relevant software and analytical tools such as MATLAB / Simulink, OrCAD EE PSpice, Multisim, ETAP, Power World Simulator, PSCAD

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

We look forward to your application and helping foster an era of safe, clean, affordable, and abundant energy.

Blue Energy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Blue Energy now or in the future.