Canadian Licensing Technical Leader

# Job Description Summary

The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the completion of various technical licensing work scopes assigned to support various projects, including new reactor licensing for the BWRX-300 Advanced Nuclear Projects, operating fleet licensing support, customer plant support on GE Hitachi (GEH) / Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF) nuclear methods, and working with GEH / GNF Engineering and Regulatory Affairs teams on major projects.

# Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will report to the Canadian Licensing Manager, and manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the following activities:

- Development of work plans and ensuring schedule adherence for all licensing deliverables while maintaining a high standard of quality.

- Reviewing and approving customer and regulatory deliverables to ensure high quality standards.

- Mitigating risks to deliverables and managing competing priorities on multiple projects.

- Adherence to all applicable procedures and to project-specific work plans and instructions.

- Identify and originate Condition Reports to drive continuous improvements as necessary.

- Ensure training of team members is up to date.

- Process documents in the Product Lifecycle Management tool including uploading quality records and supporting documentation and creating change actions with assigned reviewers and approvals.

- Prepare licensing basis documentation in support of customer licensing applications for new reactor construction and operations, including but not limited to Preliminary Safety Analysis Reports (PSARs), Pre-Operational Safety Analysis Reports (POSAR), Final Safety Analysis Reports (FSARs), Technical Specifications, Technical Specification Bases, and Availability Controls Manuals.

- Prepare licensing basis documentation and reports supporting customer licence amendments and licensing applications.

- Support customer requests for preparation or review of unreviewed safety question determinations, including preparation of Technical Safety Evaluation Reports and working with internal teams coordinating licensing status of various fuel design changes and fuel and reactor methods changes.

- Interface with customers and regulatory personnel on regulatory issues, and to secure applicable permissions and approvals related to work scopes.

- Support engineering in assessing licensing impact and developing licensing strategies to mitigate licensing risks.

- Support the commercial team in the development of Licensing Proposals and responses to Requests for Information by prospective customers.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 7 years of related professional work experience including:

- six (6) years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience

- two (2) years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

OR

- Master's Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 6 years of related professional work experience including:

- 3 years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience

- 2 years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

- Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a site security clearance, including any required regulatory background check.

- Position is remote with relocation optional and negotiable within the first year of employment, with ability and willingness to travel up to 25% as needed.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

- GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.

Desired Characteristics

- Technical knowledge in new nuclear plant design and/or licensing including knowledge of CNSC requirements

- Experience managing teams involved in licensing activities for operating and new nuclear power plant design, construction, commissioning, and operations

- Technical knowledge of one or more areas, such as nuclear fuel, operating plants, deterministic safety analyses, probabilistic safety assessments, etc.

- Working knowledge of advanced Small Modular Reactor light water reactor systems, fuel, or operations

- Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in working / communicating with regulatory and customer personnel

- Experience working with industry groups (i.e., NEI and Owners Groups) on nuclear licensing matters

- International licensing and/or technical nuclear power plant experience

- Excellent technical writing skills with the ability to create technical reports suitable for a wide range of audiences

- Effective interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills

- Process skills related to coordinating and documenting complex technical documents

- Externally focused: takes action to enhance the reputation of the company / represents the company well at all opportunities

- Clear thinker: communicates messages clearly and concisely with the ability to make decisions with speed and accuracy based on the best available information / ability to sift through complex information and focus on critical few priorities

GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.

This position requires access to and/or use of information subject to U.S. Export Control Laws, which mandate all citizenships (including dual citizenships) be from the U.S. Department of Energy’s List of Generally Authorized Countries (10 CFR Part 810 Appendix A, which includes Canada and can be found here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/chapter-III/part-810/appendix-Appendix%20A%20to%20Part%20810) unless a specific authorization from the U.S. Department of Energy is obtained or unless you are a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or protected individual under the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)). More information can be found here: https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/10-cfr-part-810.

You must have legal authorization to work in Canada and any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation. The drug screen requirement in the background check process is not required if the role is based in Canada.

Strong consideration will be given to Indigenous persons. The term Indigenous refers to individuals who identify as being descended from the original inhabitants (the first peoples) of what is now known as Canada. In this context, Indigenous people are First Nations, Métis and/or Inuit

# Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes