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Electrical Engineer - (Electromagnetics)

Pantex Plant
Amarillo, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/28/2026
Location: Amarillo, TX

Job Title: Electrical Engineer - (Electromagnetics)

Career Level From: Associate

Career Level To: Senior Associate

Organization: Facility Engineering (50996892)

Job Specialty: Core Engineering

What You'll Do

Performs technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation, and evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability, and analyses for total systems. Analyses are performed at all levels of total system products, including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance, and disposal. Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detailed trade studies, requirements allocation, and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.

The Position Focuses On

  • Implementing Department of Energy (DOE) requirements for electrical equipment used in hazardous areas through analysis, documentation, and configuration management of proposed equipment
  • Characterizing electrostatic discharge (ESD), electromagnetic radiation (EMR), and lightning hazards to sensitive electronic components
  • Developing mitigating controls to reduce or eliminate hazards in order to support plant operations

What You Can Expect

  • Meaningful work and unique opportunities to support missions vital to national and global security
  • Top-notch, dedicated colleagues
  • Generous pay and benefits with a stable organization
  • Career advancement and professional development programs
  • Work-life balance fostered through flexible work options and wellness initiatives

Minimum Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering/science/information technology discipline with a minimum 3.0/4.0 cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA)
  • OR a Master's degree in an engineering/science/information technology discipline with a minimum 3.3/4.0 cumulative GPA
  • OR a PhD in an engineering/science/information technology discipline with a minimum 3.5/4.0 cumulative GPA
  • There is a minimum GPA requirement up to 4 years post-graduation at time of offer and confirmed by transcript
    • Beyond four years from graduation, engineering experience will supersede GPA as a requirement for hire
DOE Order 426.2A Requirements

  • In addition to the above requirements, the applicant must also meet the requirements of DOE O 426.2A (i.e., Baccalaureate in engineering or related science, 2 years job-related and at least 1 year nuclear experience, or a DOE O 426.2A alternative). DOE 426.2A experience requirements can be satisfied following employment. In the interim, newly hired personnel will not be assigned duties that could impact the safety basis of nuclear facilities. (Ref. DOE O 426.2A)

Preferred Job Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree from an Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) accredited program in the United States or designated equivalents from Canada or Mexico, the Washington Accord, or the list of substantially equivalent as documented by ABET
  • Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics
  • Use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques
  • Understanding of Conduct of Engineering, Conduct of Operations, and Conduct of Maintenance for facilities operating within a nuclear regulated environment
  • Ability to evaluate and provide feedback on new and proposed revisions to technical operating procedures, design drawings and requirements, and facility systems, structures, and components
  • Able to make informed decisions and support those decisions to peers and senior management

Why Pantex?

You get #morethanajob. We encourage employees to achieve a healthy personal balance among home, work and the community. One of the ways we embrace work-life balance is by offering flexible work arrangements that provide alternatives to the traditional workweek, while still meeting business needs. Top talent and personal commitment mean more to our success than any other factors, so we reward our people with the kinds of benefits that make a positive difference in the quality of their lives. Benefits such as: medical plan, prescription drug plan, vision plan, dental plan, employer matched 401(k) savings plan, disability coverage, education reimbursement and many more. Want to stay healthy and fit but hate the cost of a gym membership? Take advantage of one of our onsite workout facilities and eat healthy in our onsite cafeterias. Much more than a workplace, at Pantex you can build a career that lasts a lifetime.

Notes

The minimum education and experience for the lowest career level in the job posting range are listed under Minimum Job Requirements. Successful candidates hired into a higher career level than the minimum in the range must meet the requirements listed in the job leveling charts for the career level into which they are being hired.

If a range of Career Levels is posted, i.e., Senior Associate to Senior Specialist, internal applicants already in one of the Career Levels would come across at their current Career Level. Internal applicants currently in a lower level Career Level would move to the lowest posted Career Level.

Requires a Q clearance; however all qualified candidates will be considered regardless of their current clearance status. The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance is required.

Position may require entry into Materials Access Areas (MAA) and participation in the Human Reliability Program (HRP). If HRP is required, candidate must complete a counterintelligence-scope polygraph, pursuant to 10 CFR 709. Medical requirements may apply.

Pantex is a drug-free workplace. Candidates accepting a job offer will be required to pass a pre-placement physical, drug screening and background investigation. As an employee, you may be required to receive and maintain a security clearance from the United States Department of Energy in order to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information or matter. U.S. citizenship is a requirement for security clearance applicants. All employees are subject to being randomly selected for drug testing without advance notification.

Pantex is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, disability or veteran status.

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