Principal Engineer - Beaver Valley 2 Steam Generators

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Job Summary
This position is an organizational lead responsible for coordinating initiatives to ensure continued reliability of the Beaver Valley unit 2 steam generators. This individual will require both technical and project management skills for the success of both internal and contractor activities required to maintain existing unit 2 steam generators.

Job responsibilities may include some activities to support eventual replacement; however, the focus of the job will be management of currently installed assets. Additional responsibilities will include providing technical advice and assistance for the site engineering director, site projects manager, and fleet engineering leadership. The successful candidate would be expected to be placed in a project manager role following completion of steam generator replacement.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Coordinate the BV2 outage contract for steam generator inspection. This will include ensuring cross-department support and oversight of vendor activities.
• Intervene into vendor activities when inadequate performance is noted prior to impact on overall outage success.
• Provide direct oversight of outage activities both in the field and at project office.
• Validate vendor project management is meeting Vistra expectations.
• Apply sound technical theory and principles to assist in optimized decision-making on technical challenges surrounding online steam generator performance. Provide management with cost effective options for resolving operation and maintenance issues.
• Coordinate with industry engineering expertise, equipment specialists and site operations and maintenance site staff to ensure consistent, practical, and effective technical solutions.
• Ensure alignment with program engineering staff and outage management during day-to-day decision-making.
• Working with other site and fleet organizations, assist in the development of planning documents for steam generator performance recovery.
• Expect less than 20 percent travel. Most travel is expected to be local to contractor facilities in western PA.

Education, Experience & Skill Requirements:

• B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering or other closely related scientific discipline/physical science generally associated with power plant operations or equivalent work experience (equivalent experience defined as demonstrated success at the engineer/technical specialist level.)
• Experience in nuclear power design Engineering, Systems Engineering, operations or equivalent required. All levels of experience will be considered but a minimum of 4 years engineering experience is preferred.
• Thorough understanding of outage activities.
• Ability to adapt to both structured and unstructured tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal and leadership skills are required.
• Physical ability and desire to support plant walk downs and inspections
• Preferred- Active in Industry (e.g EPRI, NEI, or Owners Groups)
• Preferred - Cross-functional experience.

Key Metrics:

• Technical issues are resolved utilizing cross-department resources.
• Improved outage performance for steam generator team.
• High quality project plans are developed.
• Alignment of strategic plans through different budgetary and online and outage scoping processes.

** Final pay grade will be determined based on candidates experience and qualifications **

Job Family
Engineering Services

Company
Vistra Nuclear Operations Company

Locations
Shippingport, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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