Engineer - Balance of Plant
About The Position
The Systems Mechanical Engineer – Balance of Plant (BOP) provides expert-level technical support for the operation, maintenance, testing, and modification of assigned systems and programs. The role reviews system, component, and program performance and recommends changes to operations, maintenance, or testing. It also monitors compliance programs, trends system and component performance, conducts system walk-downs, manages corrective actions, and monitors and maintains preventive maintenance programs. The engineer recommends and implements changes, including responses to emergent issues, and serves as the technical conscience and reliability champion for assigned systems or programs to help ensure equipment is reliable and ready to support nuclear safety and plant generation. The position is within the Systems Engineering Department and works extensively with other Engineering departments, Operations, Maintenance, Work Control, and Chemistry. Balance of Plant systems are associated with the plant’s secondary side, including turbine systems, the main generator, condensate, feedwater, cooling/service water, and radwaste interfaces.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology.
- Ability to read and interpret Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) documents to implement required programs.
- 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 communication skills.
- Ability to meet ERO time-response requirements when accepting an ERO position.
- Ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access.
- Ability to successfully complete General Employee Training as required for the position.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for the operation, maintenance, testing, and modification of assigned systems or programs.
- Review performance of assigned systems and components and recommend changes to operation, maintenance, or testing.
- Prepare, review, and approve engineering documentation, including calculations, specifications, analyses, drawings, and evaluations.
- Evaluate causes of plant equipment failures and identify corrective actions to support equipment reliability.
- Use software to proactively trend for incipient conditions and prevent equipment failure.
- Optimize reliability and financial effectiveness through ownership and advocacy of planned maintenance scope.
- Prepare or review complex safety evaluations and significant hazards reviews for plant repairs and conditions.
- Review industry documentation and event reports for relevant application to STP and identify appropriate corrective actions.
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, maintenance, and external vendors to collect and interpret data and implement recommended resolutions.
- Provide input to at-power and outage schedules, including work prioritization and logic work grouping.
- Periodically observe maintenance work and testing, as well as Operations activities involving key system components.
- Conduct monthly system walk-downs to maintain awareness of system condition and performance and gather performance-monitoring data, as applicable.
- Adjust preventive and predictive maintenance activities based on feedback and information from maintenance personnel, corrective and predictive maintenance, PM results and as-found condition codes, test results, vendors, EPRI templates, operating experience, equipment history, and system walk-downs.
- Champion major maintenance and modification work that affects plant reliability or generation and ensure it proceeds through the funding process.
- Evaluate proposed modifications to assigned systems or components, including cost-benefit analyses, and recommend which modifications should be pursued.
- Provide engineering expertise for complex plant issues and requests for assistance from other organizations.
- Complete station, department, or division training as required for the position and directed by immediate supervision.
- Act as the champion for plant systems, advocating system or program health and improved plant performance and reliability.
- Accept an Emergency Response Organization (ERO) position as needed and meet its time-response requirements.
- Accept an outage position as needed.
- Obtain and maintain unescorted access and successfully complete General Employee Training as required.
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Job Type
Full-time
