Associate Criticality Safety Engineer – Active Clearance Required

What you'd do

• Assist with criticality safety evaluations in conformance with DOE-STD-3007 and LLNL administrative procedures and support the review of new or proposed changes to existing equipment or operating procedures.
• Perform walk-through inspections and assist with basic annual reviews of operations and work authorization/work control documents and support the review of safety procedures and documents for consistency with criticality safety evaluations and adequate implementation of criticality safety controls.
• Perform technical/scientific assignments of limited complexity using established methods and procedures under general direction, and provide technical support to engineers, scientists, and facility staff as a member of a team in scientific research and development projects and/or ongoing operations.
• Gather, organize, and assist in analyzing data and information in support of the work activities, and help prepare documents, calculations, recommendations, corrective action documentation, designs, or related technical work products.
• Contribute to solutions for routine or limited-complexity problems using standard techniques and established practices, supporting project and organizational goals.
• Travel to the Nevada National Security Sites as needed.
• Conduct Fundamentals of Criticality Safety training courses.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What they want

• This position requires an active Department of Energy (DOE) Q-level clearance or active Top Secret clearance issued by another U.S. government agency at the time of hire.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering, Physics, or closely related scientific discipline (e.g., mechanical/systems engineering, nuclear physics, particle physics, radiochemistry) or equivalent combination of education and prior relevant experience.
• Fundamental knowledge of and some academic, internship, research, or work experience in a nuclear facility, nuclear reactor, chemical, high hazard, radiological operation, or similarly regulated technical environment.
• Ability to apply fundamental technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills to assigned work using established methods and procedures.
• Familiarity with personal computers and exposure to radiation transport software such as COG, MCNP, GEANT, or SCALE is desirable.
• Experience modeling the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly (ISSA) and performing pulsed-neutron experiments.
• Experience performing reactor kinetics calculations and developing custom radiation transport code modules for specific experiments.
• Experience modeling critical and subcritical benchmark experiments in COG, MCNP, OpenMC.
• Ability to assist with preparing technical documents and calculations following established protocols and guidance.
• Basic familiarity with DOE orders, national consensus standards, and engineering practices is desirable.

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