Position Title: Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Mechanical Design Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:- Coordinate and utilize inputs and requirements from Engineering and Project teams to produce equipment and components design solutions, including drawings, models, and specifications.
- Perform planning for design activities and manage execution to the established plans.
- Propose and develop tests required to validate functional and performance design requirements.
- Perform scoping analysis and trade studies for design options.
- Interface with cross functional team for design and analysis activities.
- Perform engineering reviews of team members’ products.
- Interface with engineers and subcontractors, providing direction and mentoring.
- 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.
- Minimum of five years of equipment / component design experience; relevant M.S. and Doctorate degrees may be credited for up to two or four years of experience respectively.
- Experience with 3D CAD, SolidWorks preferred.
- Experience with design of experiments with an emphasis on product testing.
- Experience in finite element stress analysis, mechanical analysis methods, first principles calculations.
- Familiarity 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.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- 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.
- Design experience in the nuclear industry with core assemblies is highly desirable.
- Experience with nuclear industry operation, DOE and NRC regulations
- Knowledge of neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and/or structural analysis.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary design activities
- Experience in finite element stress analysis using ANSYS and first principles calculations.
- Experience with writing test requirements documents and developing nuclear product test campaigns.
- Experience with manufacturing and methodology, especially in first article productions.
- Experience with technical evaluation, review, and nonconformance evaluation of vendors and suppliers.
- Travel Required: 0-5%.
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 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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