Senior Engineer - Integrated Plant Design

Summary
The Senior Engineer performs a leadership role within GE Hitachi’s Plant Systems Integration teams which focus on development of new advanced nuclear reactor projects (SMR and SFR). You will be responsible for engineering design support within a team environment, working with other disciplines, project/product stakeholders, partner organizations and suppliers to advance plant conceptual and detailed design and successfully deliver a new plants project. You will be part of a large team working on integrating and coordinating multi-discipline activities to support the design of safe and economically superior reactor designs by employing a balance of cutting edge and proven technologies and will be responsible for development and implementation of licensing and technical requirements along with the associated work processes for advanced work in new nuclear plants.

Responsible For Plant Integration Engineering (PIE) Activities That Support

• GE's BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and/or
• Gen-IV reactor technologies including Natrium and ARC sodium fast reactors (SFRs).

Roles And Responsibilities

• Drive the identification of verification and validation (V&V) requirements at the plant, system, and component level.
• Demonstrates accountability for cost, schedule, quality, and technical accuracy of assigned tasks.
• Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements. Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology, or engineering. Takes new perspective on existing solutions.
• Responsible for defining plant-level design requirements for the systems, components, subcontractors, and partner teams.
• Developing specialized knowledge in their discipline. Serves as best practice/quality resource. Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area. Contributes towards strategy and policy development and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership, oversee project scheduling and resource planning, develop talent through mentorship, and act as the point-of-contact between your engineering team and both internal and external customers.
• Manages interface between systems, components, and project/product management organizations.
• Conducts component and system integration with overall new nuclear plant design. All activities that span multiple components and systems that are concerned with how to integrate for maximum performance, operability, and design to cost.
• Manages product and systems requirements, specifications, and flow down.
• Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how your area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Physics from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in an engineering capacity.

Eligibility Requirements

• Relocation to Markham, ON is required.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong knowledge of plant operations, licensing and design bases, transient and accident analysis.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Experience as a Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) at a nuclear power plant is strongly desired.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Licensed Professional Engineer
• 10+ years of commercial nuclear engineering experience in multiple capacities including Design, Licensing, PRA, and/or Systems -OR- 10+ years of shipyard nuclear systems engineering experience.
• Requirements Management experience utilize DOORs or similar tool.
• Experience with Nuclear Island, Turbine Island and BOP plant systems and with the associated safety analyses design bases.
• SRO experience in multiple capacities including on-shift, outage prep, work control, and/or training.
• Masters or PhD in Engineering (Nuclear, Mechanical, Electrical, or Civil).

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening. This position requires access to and/or use of information subject to U.S. Export Control Laws, which mandate all citizenships be from the U.S. Department of Energy’s List of Generally Authorized Countries (10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A); otherwise a specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy will be required. More information can be found here:  https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/10-cfr-part-810 .  

You must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes