Engineering Supervisor

The Mechanical Design Basis Supervisor is responsible for leading the Mechanical Design Basis team in the development, review, and maintenance of plant design basis analyses. Provides technical oversight of mechanical calculations, ensures compliance with regulatory and licensing basis requirements, and coordinates work priorities to support plant operations, modifications, and outage activities. Supervises and mentors engineers, interfaces with cross-discipline groups, and ensures high standards for quality, safety, and schedule performance.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Supervise engineering staff by providing leadership, technical direction, and oversight of work execution, projects, and administrative functions within the Engineering department. Responsibilities include supporting group performance, reviewing engineering work products, resolving technical issues, supporting outages and emergent work, and driving continuous improvement. Collaborate with management on budgeting, scheduling, staffing, and long-range planning, and support station operations through routine and on-call work activities.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Managing - Manages employees using established Energy Northwest policies, procedures, and practices. Communicates a common vision consistent with that of the leadership team. Conducts pre-job briefs with staff to ensure mutual understanding of assigned work. Reviews and approves (per procedure) the work generated by group.

Developing - Responsible to develop workable personnel strategies to achieve the department’s vision and mission. Assures the engineers maintain their qualification through required training. Conducts frequent observations of his/her staff and provides constructive feedback to reinforce and enhance performance. Performs periodic performance reviews of the engineers in the group.

Planning/Scheduling – Use of work management system to assure workload priorities and completion dates for deliverable products. Work with the Engineering Manager to develop the group budget for each fiscal year.

Evaluating - Conducts periodic reviews of group activities to compare status versus the plan. When a deviation occurs, assures the corrective actions are identified and implemented, and conducts employee coaching. Frequently evaluates status of the groups’ budget and discusses deviations with the Engineering Manager. Takes necessary actions to avoid overruns.

Engineering employees are expected to be available and to support the following activities as a condition of employment with Energy Northwest:

- Emergency Response Organization (ERO) including being on-call (24/7) during your required team duty (2 weeks out of every 8 weeks).

- 12 hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center.

- Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment. (This is a shared responsibility across all engineering positions).

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Physics, Math or related technical field from an accredited college or university and a minimum of five years of related technical experience of which one year shall be nuclear power plant experience.

A maximum of two years of the required five years may be fulfilled by one advanced degree in engineering, business (MBA) or related field. A Professional Engineer (PE) license may be considered as equivalent to the Bachelor’s degree requirement. The Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license may be considered for up to two years of technical experience.

Pay Range

$141,070.00 - $211,604.00 Annual

Midpoint:

$176,337.00

Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.

Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.

Incentive Compensation

This role may be eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.

Benefits

Energy Northwest (EN) provides a phenomenal benefits package. Washington State also has no state income tax, and the Tri-Cities provides a cost-of-living lower than the national average.

EN offers substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan. EN also offers multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsides, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring/identity theft insurance, and more! Qualifying employees will typically start a personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year and EN provides nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year; personal time accruals grow significantly at various service intervals.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.

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