Mechanical/Civil Engineer

Energy Northwest•Richland, WA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Provide independent engineering service and support to perform highly complex engineering tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the application of engineering fundamentals in support of the design modification, operating, and independent assessment of Energy Northwest facilities. Serve as an advisor to others.

Requirements

Engineer Principal: Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university and seven years of engineering experience; OR a high school diploma or GED and PE license obtained by accredited examination plus eight years of engineering experience.
Engineer Senior: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and three years of discipline specific engineering experience; OR a PE license obtained by an accredited examination and five years of discipline specific engineering experience.
Engineer Staff: Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and at least one year of engineering experience; OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination and at least one year of engineering experience.
High school diploma or GED is required.

Nice To Haves

Pipe Stress Analysis
Fluid Flow Analysis
Heat Transfer Analysis
Structural Analysis

Responsibilities

Perform highly complex engineering analyses and designs in support of operations, systems, programs, audit inspections, and assessments requiring skills and experience gained through application of engineering methods and analysis, codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
Work with minimal supervision.
Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
Solutions provided involve unconventional or innovative problem solving techniques.
Provide technical leadership and training on highly complex or extended projects.
Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues.
Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a mentor.
Provide training to others.
Identify need and initiate development of new policies, programs, plans, and procedures to meet strategic objectives.
Assure compliance with regulatory and industry guidance.
Provide interpretation of industry guidance for application.
Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operation and initiate corrective action.
Engineering employees are expected to be available and to support the following activities as a condition of employment with Energy Northwest: Emergency Response Organization (ERO) including being on-call (24/7) during your required team duty (2 weeks out of every 8 weeks).
12-hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7).
Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment. (This is a shared responsibility across all engineering positions).

Benefits

Annual incentive plan
Washington State has no state income tax
Substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan.
Multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Tuition reimbursement
Student loan repayment
Childcare subsides
Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA)
Health savings account (HSA)
Supplemental life insurances
Credit monitoring/identity theft insurance
Personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year
Nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year