Senior Nuclear Regulatory Affairs / Licensing Engineer

Job Description:

• Provide regulatory support for significant station initiatives and/or Energy Northwest objectives.
• This includes interface with Engineering Projects team members, other plant organizations, representatives of supporting vendors, peers in industry and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• This individual provides the regulatory and technical support detailed below for assigned tasks following defined station processes.
• At the Engineer level this requires the ability to perform basic tasks with a limited amount of independence.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Provide consultation to Energy Northwest management to assure nuclear safety, licensing, and regulatory issues are identified, addressed, and resolved.
• Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to management on matters affecting aging management and license renewal.
• Represent Energy Northwest with applicable regulators, industry work groups, workshops, and conferences.
• Understanding EN's Environmental Review needs which may include the conduct of field and onsite visits as needed.
• Collaborating with a team of experts in licensing, project management and engineering and other station departments to support discussion and resolution of regulatory issues associated with long term operation of Columbia Generation Station.
• Keeping management apprised of latest license renewal policies, rules, and standards that may need to be followed.

Skills and Experience:

• Requires knowledge and ability to apply general engineering principles, practices and theories, and methods to identify and solve routine problems.
• Ability to use more advanced techniques under guidance and provide guidance to others on matters related to Regulatory Affairs.
• Requires ability to use standard Microsoft Office suite products.
• Requires effective written and verbal communication skills with ability to cater to audiences which are non-technical or have varying levels of technical proficiency.

Required Education and Experience:

• Requires a Bachelors degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and twelve years of engineering experience in a technical environment, at least two of which must be in a Department of Energy or Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulated nuclear environment;

OR

• A PE license obtained by accredited examination and twelve years of engineering experience in a technical environment, at least four of which must be in a Department of Energy or Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulated nuclear environment.
• Prior experience preparing, submitting, and implementing license amendment requests, relief requests or other NRC approved licensing actions A high school diploma or GED is required.
• At least two career excellence activities (e.g diverse assignments, management certification or RO/SRO license, industry working group participation).

Desired Qualifications: (One or more of the following:)

• Prior experience supporting license renewal efforts for commercial nuclear power plants
• Experience as a technical reviewer of license renewal applications
• Participation in industry committees associated with license renewal
• Experience developing, implementing or auditing/inspecting aging management programs
• Experience preparing, submitting and implementing license amendment requests which are complex or unprecedented