Position Title: Senior Fuel Handling Mechanical Design Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Fuel Handling Mechanical Design Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:- Coordinate and review inputs and requirements from Engineering and Project teams to produce equipment and components design solutions.
- Provide planning and schedule input for design activities.
- Create CAD models optimized for anticipated future work and engineering drawings
- Create engineering drawings, applying ASME 14.1 and Y14.5 standards
- Perform and review scoping analysis and calculations for design options.
- Interface with the team’s engineering analysis and testing activities.
- Present and review equipment and components design results for design reviews.
- Assess technical merit of solutions provided by team members and subcontractors, including leading design reviews.
- Interface with subcontractors, providing direction and assimilating their work.
- Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.
Job Qualifications:- Education: B.S. degree in Mechanical engineering or equivalent preferred, relevant M.S. and Doctorate degrees may be credited for up to two and four years of experience respectively.
- A minimum of 8 years of CAD proficiency is required, SoildWorks preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of equipment / component design experience
- Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing per ASME Y14.5M
- Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA).
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Strong analytical/problem solving skills, creative thinker.
- Ability to work with minimum direction to solve challenging problems.
- Ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently during a given work week.
- Nuclear equipment design experience preferred but not required
- Working experience with design codes such as the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section III, or Section VIII is 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.
- The Ideal Candidate:
- Experience or familiarity with the rules of ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code Section III Division 5.
- Experience in a testing / research and development environment with multiple types of testing (R&D, Acceptance, Validation, Qualification).
- Previous experience in the nuclear industry.
- Experience with design for Flow Induced Vibration (FIV) or working under a Comprehensive Vibration Assessment Program (CVAP).
- Experience writing design specifications, testing requirements and qualification plans.
- Experience in finite element stress analysis, mechanical analysis methods, and commercial mechanical stress analysis modeling tools with emphasis on ANSYS.
- Travel Required: 0-5%.
Job Details:- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $56-$95/hr (Pay rates are approved based on candidate location, education and experience)
- Location: 100% Remote Acceptable
- 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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