Mechanical Engineer

Top Required Skills:

• Knowledge and application of engineering theories and principles, concepts, and fundamentals

• Requires developmental experience in a professional engineering position

• Competency in applying engineering principles, fundamental concepts, practices and procedures requiring some evaluation, originality and/or ingenuity to achieve project objectives

• Understands and can apply knowledge of configuration management

Job Summary:

• Obtain Dominion Energy Mechanical Engineering Qualifications and/or possess a Standard Design Process or Digital Design Process qualification that is transferable to Dominion

• Work with application specific engineering team to gain understanding for different system functions and system requirements

• Review and Approve Mechanical Engineering plans developed by equipment vendor

• Review and gain a thorough understanding of Application requirements as driven by design specifications, regulatory requirements, and software/hardware requirements assisted by the requirements lead engineer

• Ability to report activity status and communicate with all levels of owner/leadership

• Additional duties include providing support for functional testing as well as both planned and emergent equipment maintenance.

• Performs and/or reviews engineering calculations, analysis, research and design.

• Provides cost analysis as needed and develops recommendation based on calculations (e.g. cost for equipment upgrade) for management review.

• Levels are distinguished by increased complexity in application of engineering skills required.

• Under direction of supervisor or work leader, exercises independence in evaluating, selecting and applying standard or well-defined engineering techniques, procedures and criteria.

• Uses judgment in prioritizing and making moderately complex adaptations and modifications.

• Assignments have clear and specified objectives and require investigation of a limited number of variables.

High Level Project Overview:

The engineer will be performing the duties of a system engineer. Duties include the development and implementation of trending & monitoring plans to ensure system and component health. Development of short- and long-term plans to improve system and component reliability. Performance of causal evaluations to prevent equipment failures, as well as the development of engineering technical evaluations supporting plant operation. Additional duties include providing support for functional testing as well as both planned and emergent equipment maintenance.

Preferred Years of Experience:

5+ years of hands on experience as a mechanical engineer on a large capital project in the nuclear field

Education:

• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an ABET accredited Engineering program based on the year that the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or

• Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own Engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or

• Possess a 4-year degree in Engineering (non-ABET accredited), Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate Engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same Engineering discipline is ABET-accredited based on the year the Engineering program was accredited by ABET.