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Are you ready to embark on a rewarding career, as a nuclear professional, helping Duke Energy achieve a clean energy future? Duke Energy’s 11 operating nuclear reactors make Duke a clean energy leader in the electricity generation industry. The Nuclear Fuels Engineering (NFE) department is seeking candidates who are passionate about nuclear energy’s role in a clean energy future. Duke’s NFE department is unique in the industry by owning and performing in-house methods and analysis for nearly all aspects of the fuel cycle, from contracting fuel supply to long term storage of spent fuel. Duke Energy is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, a growing and vibrant city in the Carolinas. Candidates have the opportunity to work from Duke’s brand new, state-of-the-art, headquarters building, with on-site dining and a fitness facility. For those that prefer a suburban or rural lifestyle, we offer the flexibility to work from our nearby nuclear sites at attractive locations such as Lake Norman, NC or Lake Wylie, SC. All our office locations are easy driving distance to the ocean or the mountains, making Charlotte an ideal location for your next home.
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Job Description:
Nuclear Engineer I or II
This is the entry level of the Engineering classification hierarchy. Employees at this entry level solve problems in engineering areas of the Safety Analysis Applications group with close supervision. Incumbents are expected to develop skills, and the ability to work with greater independence. They have knowledge of fundamental concepts and procedures.
Safety Analysis Applications group is part of the Nuclear Engineering Division located at Duke Energy’s General Office in Charlotte. The Safety Analysis group is responsible for computer simulations of plant transients and accidents for all PWR Duke reactors. The group is responsible for all the non-LOCA analysis for UFSAR Chapter 15 and the containment response to pipe breaks described in UFSAR Chapter 6. In addition, this group performs the radiological engineering activities of UFSAR Chapter 15 dose analysis and Environmental Qualification shielding analysis. Some of the other Safety Analysis responsibilities include: reload core safety analysis, ECCS hydraulic simulations, Emergency Procedure Setpoints, Emergency Operating Facility (EOF) technical support, LOCA analysis vender interface, Radiological Engineering, and transient validations of the training simulators.
Group responsibilities and duties include:
- Perform a variety of complex transient thermal hydraulic simulations for all PWR Duke reactors using RETRAN, RELAP, and GOTHIC code packages
- Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, and documentation
- Develops, qualifies, and maintains computer codes used in safety analysis
- Collaborate/interface with Duke, industry, vendor, and regulatory personnel
- Participate in technical training activities
- Performs analyses to determine containment temperature and pressure response to postulated pipe breaks using NRC approved codes and plant models
- Works with Regulatory Compliance to create and/or review Licensing Amendment Requests (LAR) packages.
- Develops and help license improved Safety Analysis methods which improve thermal margin and/or provide plant operational margins
- Effectively plans work activities to produce high quality deliverables satisfying all station and NRC requirements on a schedule that meets reload licensing or project commitments
- Follows NRC approved methodologies to perform reload and containment analyses.
- Performs Ch 15 dose analysis with SNAP/RADTRAD and LOCADOSE code packages
- Performs shielding calculations with SCALE and MCNP
“Depending upon the desired qualifications of the successful applicant, the hiring manager may elect to fill this position at a higher level within the job hierarchy”
Basic / Required Qualifications
Nuclear Engineer I
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program
- A Master's degree in Engineering will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- 0-2 years of engineering experience
Nuclear Engineer II
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program
- A Master's degree in Engineering will be considered in lieu of a Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- 2-4 years of engineering experience
- Minimum of 1 year of nuclear experience
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from an ABET accredited program
- Fundamentals of Engineering Certificate and/or Professional Engineer (PE) license
- Experience with safety analysis codes, (e.g. RETRAN, VIPRE, RELAP, and GOTHIC, and/or equivalents)
- Experience with Radiological Engineering analysis codes, (e.g. RADTRAD, SCALE, MCNP, and LOCADOSE)
- Experience with nuclear fuel and PWR safety analyses design analyses
- Familiarity with the basic systems of a PWR
- Experience with development and support of License Amendment Requests and 50.59 Evaluations
- Unix and/or Linux workstation experience
- Computer programming experience (FORTRAN/Python/VBA/etc.)
- Knowledge in thermal hydraulic calculations – heat transfer, flow modeling, single failure analysis, NPSH analysis, etc.
- Experience in the utility industry.
Working Conditions:
- Hybrid office/remote work environment
- Flexible work schedule - typically four 10-hour days, 2 in office and 2 remote
- Some travel to other Duke sites, industry sites, and industry conferences/meetings
- Occasional off-hour emergent work required
Specific Requirements
- In lieu of 1 year of nuclear experience, a selected candidate is subject to the oversight and written approval authority of a designated qualified individual until the selected candidate becomes fully qualified
- Ability to achieve nuclear site Unescorted Access/Security clearance
- Emergency Response Organization (ERO) responsibilities which could include callouts with a defined response time to ERO facilities and an on-call duty rotation requiring the employee to be Fit for Duty
Travel Requirements
5-15%
Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)
Yes
Represented/Union Position
No
Visa Sponsored Position
No
Posting Expiration Date
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
All job postings expire at 12:01 AM on the posting expiration date.
Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.
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