Nuclear Engineer jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking to add a professionally licensed mid-level (6-10 years of relevant work experience) Nuclear Engineer to its engineering team with experience and capabilities in nuclear safety and hazards analyses, accident analyses, and safety evaluations; and integrating nuclear engineering/safety requirements with design requirements.

Company Background: The Parsons Nuclear Engineering staff includes engineers, scientists and physicists, health physicists, nuclear operators, safety analysts, and radiological protection engineers and technicians. Parsons is one of the largest Architect Engineer (AE) firms in the U.S. for nuclear facility design, construction, test and evaluation, startup and commissioning, and operations. Our analytic capabilities include fuels and materials performance studies; nuclear safety and criticality analyses; radiation shielding and As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) design; nuclear material handling and waste treatment process design and optimization; thermal and hydraulic analyses; and radiation assessments supporting Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) data package development.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Nuclear Safety Analysis; Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA); Hazard and Accident Analyses
• Safety Analysis Report Preparation; Safety Classification and Determination of Structures, Systems, and Component (SSC); Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ); Safety Basis Requirements
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (e.g., criticality, shielding, radiation field, dose rate, etc.)
• Operational and Technical Safety Requirement (OSR, TSR) Development
• Radiation Shielding Design
• Nuclear Reactor Physics
• Passive and Active (e.g., Radiography) Radiation Detection Systems
• Nuclear System Operations Review
• Criticality Prevention Evaluation / Analysis
• Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management; Hazardous Material Protection Evaluation
• Quality Assurance/Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) Requirements Development / Review
• Nuclear Regulations and Licensing Support
• Safeguards and Security Requirements Development / Review
• Hazard and Risk Assessment; Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Hazard and Operability Studies
• Dose Consequence Analyses; Fate and Transport Analysis; Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling
• Radiation Protection and Control, Health Physics, and Human Factors Requirements Development / Review
• Developing and performing assessments of safety basis documents including Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA) or Documented safety Analysis (DSA); verifying the adequacy of hazard analyses and accident analyses in compliance with applicable DOE Codes and Standards and supporting documentation; and confirming alignment of these analyses with applicable design bases, facility and system design descriptions (FDD/SDD), and other engineering documents
• Supporting nuclear facility design development and reviews in areas of nuclear safety and engineering
• Providing independent system design and operability reviews; assessments of facility and system construction and system / facility turnover; and assessments to verify that nuclear facility AE contractors have adequate safety basis design and quality documentation to support an Operational Readiness Review (ORR)
• Performing walk-downs of selected nuclear related systems, reviewing system turnover documentation, system testing procedures and testing results, and operational testing and testing reports
• Providing technical issue resolution and redesign effort oversight to address design and operability issues related to nuclear safety
• Reviewing nuclear facility design alternatives, proposed code of record exceptions, technical risk assessments, value engineering proposals, and significant baseline change proposals
• Identifying and preparing value engineering assessments for opportunities to reduce cost and schedule or reduce mission life cycle risk
• Performing reviews of nuclear facility startup and commissioning plans and strategies, testing schedules, and resource plans for reasonableness and risk.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• BS in Nuclear Engineering required; MS preferred
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or Engineer in Training (EIT) certification towards taking the PE exam
• Individual must possess knowledge in nuclear engineering and safety analysis functions, be proficient in application of nuclear engineering requirements to nuclear systems and facilities, with a minimum of 6-10 years of relevant work experience performing and documenting nuclear system hazards analyses, accident analyses, and safety evaluations; and successfully integrating nuclear safety requirements with other system / facility design requirements.
• Individual must have relevant experience in application of DOE-STD-3009-2014, Preparation of Nonreactor Nuclear Facility Documented Safety Analysis, and be knowledgeable of DOE O 450.2, Integrated Safety Management, ASME Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) for Nuclear Facilities, and Code of Federal regulations 10-CFR-830 Subpart B - Safety Basis Requirements.
• Significant engineering / design / operational experience in field execution.
• Demonstrated qualifications and abilities in providing planning, control and compliance of work documents, to include contracts, nuclear facility / system designs, drawings, calculations, hazards and accident analyses, procurement specifications, construction submittals, component/system testing plans, operational preparation documents, etc.
• Proof of U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required due to government or federal requirements
• Individual must be capable of obtaining a DOE site security badge

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Department of Energy (DOE-Q)

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what's next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range:
$83,300.00 - $145,800.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company's core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ .

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