Position Title: Primary Sodium Pump Test Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Primary Sodium Pump Test Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:- Will serve as the primary test engineer supporting the primary sodium pump design and deployment, with an emphasis on vendor testing oversight, test planning & execution along with testing system interface and design.
- Responsible for coordinating geographically diverse design team members to develop supporting design documentation. The team is composed of Company employees, subcontracted resources, partner employees, and customers.
- Develop, maintain, and refine plant level and system level requirement and specification documents, as well as support digital design tools and configuration management processes.
- Lead and support design reviews and resolution of cross functional technical concerns.
- Lead and support design of instrumentation for testing, based around data acquisition control hardware and software, to meet experimental test objectives.
- Lead and support the development and documentation of test plans, test designs and test procedures for experimental work in the large sodium test facility.
- Coalesce the work of multiple teams into single deliverables.
Ensure smooth flow between design engineers and test engineers. Pro-actively identifying and closing gaps on either end
Job Qualifications:- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
- At least 5 years of test engineering experience is preferred.
- Vendor test engineering oversight experience is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience working with high temperature alkali metals in a laboratory environment highly desired.
- Experience working in a laboratory environment or industrial environment.
- Experience in design and integration of data acquisition and control system platforms desired.
- Experience in design and application of experimental hardware, instrumentation, and engineering laboratory practices.
- Experience writing test plans, requirements and procedures.
- Experience with post-processing and documenting experiments.
- Experience in hands-on laboratory work (analytical methods, glovebox work, standard laboratory practices).
- Ability to work with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists in a design environment to develop novel testing approaches and equipment.
- Ability to work on tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
- Ability to analyze, develop, and plan tests of highly complex equipment with limited design inputs.
- Strong understanding of configuration management principles, as well as knowledge of design control tools application on nuclear or similar complex industrial applications.
- Ability to deliver projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives.
- Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently during a given work week.
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work on tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
- Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead a design team’s effort with minimal direction.
- Nuclear experience and working under a certified NQA-1 program preferred but not required.
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
- Travel Required: 0-10%
Job Details:- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $52-$85/hr *Pay rates are approved based on candidate location, education and experience*
- Location: Bellevue, WA, Everett, WA or 100% REMOTE
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
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