What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer position at Holtec International?
Position Description:
The Senior Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer will review and provide critical comments and recommendations on RELAP and MELCOR vendor-related products.
Responsibilities:
The Senior Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer will review and provide critical comments and recommendations on RELAP and MELCOR vendor-related products.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and update SMR-300 RELAP and MELCOR base decks to ensure they reflect plant design changes;
- Prepare and review design deliverables and presentations;
- Support development of engineering and licensing documentation;
- Mentor and lead other PSA engineers on the techniques and requirements associated with evaluating the plant and containment response;
- Lead and execute key severe accident and containment response; and
- Provide mentoring to other PSA team members on the development and use of RELAP and MELCOR.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Nuclear Engineering, Thermal Power Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field;
- 4 years of experience as a Thermohydraulic Analyst, or a related occupation;
- Experience using thermal hydraulic and containment response codes (i.e. MELCOR);
- Experience in commercial nuclear design or operation;
- Experience conducting safety analysis of Pressurized Water-type reactors (PWR);
- Experience performing transient and accident analyses using system thermal hydraulic codes;
- Experience performing radiological consequences analyses using RADTRAD and RASCAL;
- Experience conducting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses; and
- Experience using: computer codes for NPP model development and risk quantification (i.e. CAFTA, SAPHIRE, RiskSpectrum, or equivalent).
- Must be eligible to work in accordance with DOE 10 CFR section 810.
