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 staff activities: provide leadership, technical guidance, work management, project management and administration within an Engineering department. The group is responsible for activities such as system performance monitoring and trending, maintaining system health reports, planned maintenance (PM) reviews, system-related action requests (AR) reviews, troubleshooting, outage support, and equipment reliability improvements. Additionally, provide input to the manager on budget, schedule, staffing, and system long-term planning, and work week involvement to support the operation of the Columbia Generating Station.

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:

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

2. 12 hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center

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

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related/relevant 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 a master’s degree in engineering or related field. A Professional Engineer (PE) license or SRO license may be considered as equivalent to the Bachelor’s degree requirement.

The Reactor Engineering/Fuel Design Supervisor(s) shall have a minimum of two years of experience in areas such as reactor/core physics and measurements, heat transfer, and physics testing.

Supervisors responsible for instrumentation and control shall have a minimum of five years of experience in instrumentation and control, of which a minimum of six months shall be in nuclear instrumentation and control.

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) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance. EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan. Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.