BCP Engineers & Consultants

Mechanical System Engineer

New Jersey, United States

Contract

About This Job

Mechanical Systems Engineer

Project: NSSS Power Uprate projects

Work Location: Full Time Onsite or Part Remote (please reach out to discuss variable to decide which you prefer)

Pay Rate: Not Defined / need Candidate’s requested rate

Duration: Initially One Year w/ annual extensions expected

Schedule: (4) Ten Hour Days / week

Position / Scope: Provide technical expertise in the identification, investigation, and resolution of plant operating, safety, and design issues to ensure plant reliability and availability. Including use of technical expertise to support safe and reliable plant operation and maintenance of components.

Job Responsibilities

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Developing mechanical technical evaluations e.g. repair plans, bolting, torquing, and gasket evaluations.

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Monitoring, trending and assessing system, program and component health to improve plant reliability.

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Championing Strategic Improvements to Systems and Components

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Support maintenance and work management by resolving engineering technical issues within the work management process, including simple trouble shooting support

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Leading complex troubleshooting activities with maintenance and operations support.

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Leading design, development and installation of strategic, emergent and temporary modifications in the plant.

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Identify, prioritize and support other plant processes and programs including: the corrective action program, operability determination, adverse condition monitoring and operational decision making processes

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Perform field support of plant activities and conducting paired or individual system walk downs.

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Lead cross-functional teams to manage/resolve system performance issues.

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Ensure Program/Component/System readiness and compliance with design / license basis

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Address emergent issues to minimize the impact on engineering core business activities.

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Strategy recommendations and support for regulatory and industry inspections

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Perform other assigned duties as determined by the Engineering

Job Specific Qualifications

Required:

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BS Degree in Mechanical, Civil or Chemical Engineering or related technical degree with a minimum of (7) years performing Engineering work in a nuclear or in a related industry.

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Available for Shift Work during plant outages and generation challenges.

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Must meet Nuclear requirements for Unescorted Site Access.

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Support plant outage engineering priorities and participate in the Emergency Response Organization and Engineering Duty Team for emergent plant issues

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Attend/represent industry seminars, trainings and meetings.

Desired:

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Nuclear Power Plant Engineering or equivalent experience

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Current or Previous SRO license/cert

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Master's Degree or US Navy Nuclear experience

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Industry Leadership and System or Component SME

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Engineering In Training Certification

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Professional Engineer (PE) License

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Experience managing reliability of mechanical systems or components

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Experience managing projects and/or external vendors

Minimum Years of Experience: 7 years of experience

Education: Bachelor’s Degree