Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer

Energy Northwest • Richland, WA

48d

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. This position is posted at multiple levels. Please see the job description below for more information. GENERAL SUMMARY Perform various highly complex Probabilistic Safety (PSA) tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the area of probabilistic analysis, including plant support for utilization of PARAGON for work control risk management, PSA model ownership/upgrade and maintenance, and other related PSA activities. Serve as an advisor to others, and as a mentor for PSA engineers in training. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Perform various highly complex PSA tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the area of probabilistic analysis, including plant support for utilization of PARAGON for work control risk management, PSA model ownership/upgrade and maintenance, risk-informed evaluations in support of NOED submittals, Tech Spec surveillance extensions, and other related PSA activities. Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues. Available guidance generally does not normally exist to fit problems encountered and advanced technological skills are required to provide solutions. Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements. Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers and operators. Serve as a mentor to PSA Engineers(s) in training. Provide training to others. Identify potential problems or areas for improvement related to PSA activities and/or operations support, and initiate corrective action in accordance with the plant Condition Report (CR) process. Participate in industry working groups and other discipline related activities. 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) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment (typically 1 week timeframe with requirements similar to ERO).

Requirements

• Engineer Principal - PSA Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and eight years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools; OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination with a high school diploma or GED and eight years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools. One diverse assignment is required. A diverse assignment is knowledge and experience in an area not related to your core engineering discipline. Significant new job skills or knowledge will have been acquired and successfully demonstrated. New job skills mean a significant change in tasks performed, not just an amplification of existing skills.
• Engineer Senior - PSA Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and three years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools in a high consequence industrial work environment; OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination with a high school diploma or GED and three years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools in a high consequence industrial work environment.
• Engineer Staff - PSA 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. A high school diploma or GED is required.

Responsibilities

• Perform various highly complex PSA tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the area of probabilistic analysis, including plant support for utilization of PARAGON for work control risk management, PSA model ownership/upgrade and maintenance, risk-informed evaluations in support of NOED submittals, Tech Spec surveillance extensions, and other related PSA activities.
• Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues.
• Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
• Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers and operators.
• Serve as a mentor to PSA Engineers(s) in training.
• Provide training to others.
• Identify potential problems or areas for improvement related to PSA activities and/or operations support, and initiate corrective action in accordance with the plant Condition Report (CR) process.
• Participate in industry working groups and other discipline related activities.
• 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) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment (typically 1 week timeframe with requirements similar to ERO).

Benefits

• Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance.
• EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan.
• Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees