Digital Engineer - All Levels
About The Position
The Digital Engineer in the System Engineering Department supports station activities related to the operation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, lifecycle management, and recovery of digital plant systems and digital subsections of other plant systems. The Digital Engineer may develop engineering changes for configuration changes, software changes, graphics changes, and other changes in addition to the development of engineering evaluations that support Operations & Maintenance. These activities may address emergent technical plant issues, improve plant equipment, and support plant performance and reliability. The Digital Engineer supports backup and restoration activities, monitors digital system health, supports recovery actions, and acts as the technical conscience for maintaining the design basis of assigned digital equipment. The Digital Engineer position is responsible for learning the plant site, procedures, programs, digital platforms, and organization along with obtaining engineering qualifications as required in the allotted timeframe.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology.
- No experience is required (for EIT I)
- 6 months of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for EIT II)
- 1 year of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for Engineer)
- 3 years of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for Sr Engineer)
- 5 years of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for Staff Engineer)
- 8 years of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for Consulting Engineer)
- 12 years of digital engineering, engineering, maintenance or operations experience. (Required for Principal Engineer)
- Knowledge of digital system design, operation, maintenance, testing, configuration control, backup/restoration, recovery, and lifecycle management, preferably in nuclear power.
- Knowledge of PLCs, DCS platforms, embedded controllers, HMIs, plant computer systems, communications protocols, networking fundamentals, graphics, software/firmware configuration management, backup/restoration, and system health monitoring.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering documents, drawings, logic diagrams, configuration documentation, network architecture, vendor manuals, and software/firmware records.
- Strong technical writing and verbal communications skills required.
Nice To Haves
- 2 years is nuclear power related. (Preferred for Sr Engineer)
- 3 years is nuclear power related. (Preferred for Staff Engineer)
- 4 years is nuclear power related. (Preferred for Consulting Engineer)
- 5 years is nuclear power related. (Preferred for Principal Engineer)
- Engineering Management Team and GM approval is required to advance to Principal Digital Engineer level.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical support for Operations and Maintenance personnel regarding digital plant systems, digital subsections of other plant systems, digital control systems, plant computer systems, communications interfaces, software/firmware configurations, graphics, and associated plant equipment.
- Supports and helps guide the digital transformation and modernization of plant equipment by providing technical input, system knowledge, and engineering support for the implementation, integration, and lifecycle management of digital technologies.
- Reviews performance and health of digital plant systems and recommends changes regarding operation, maintenance, testing, configuration management, recovery, lifecycle management, or modernization strategy.
- Leads the interface with other departments, vendors, and regulatory agencies by leading meetings and discussions to provide specific information and analysis to questions/problems involving digital plant systems.
- Prepares and reviews engineering documentation (i.e., calculations, specifications, analysis, drawings, logic/configuration documentation, software change documentation, graphics change documentation, evaluations, etc.)
- Provides independent engineering support to Maintenance that requires field investigation, inspections, troubleshooting, recovery, and solutions to problems involving digital systems and associated plant interfaces.
- Supports investigations and reports for apparent or root cause analysis and generates recommendations for corrective actions.
- Reviews and evaluates industry documentation, vendor information, cyber/operating experience, and event reports for relevant application to STP and identifies appropriate corrective actions.
- Develops and supports engineering changes, evaluations, and corrective actions for configuration changes, software changes, graphics changes, restoration, replacement, upgrade, and long-term support of obsolete or aging digital equipment.
- Maintains technical oversight of software, firmware, configuration files, backups, backup/restore methods, version control, vendor information, and restoration documentation necessary to maintain and recover digital systems.
- Supports monitoring, backup, restoration, recovery, and lifecycle management of digital digital plant systems while maintaining the plant design and licensing basis.
- Accept Emergency Response Organization (ERO) position as needed.
- Accept outage position as needed.
- Support rotational engineering duty.
- Ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access.
- Successfully complete General Employee Training (GET) as required for position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
