Principal Engineer - Electrical Power System Analytics

Job Description Summary

Makes decisions and recommendations recognized as fact based, reasonable, and authoritative with impact on designs, analysis, reports, etc. Demonstrates creativity, foresight, and mature judgment in anticipating and solving challenging discipline‑specific and cross‑discipline problems. Defines technical strategy, plans, objectives, requirements, work scope, nuclear regulations and industry standards, guides, etc. Assesses staff competencies. Provides mentorship and oversight, etc.

This role focuses on the analytical aspects of electrical systems discipline. Responsible for all aspects of electrical systems analysis including technical leadership and process ownership.

Includes Safety Class 1 (SC1) or safety‑related, SC2 and SC3 or augmented quality, and SC None or nonsafety‑related scope in nuclear island (NI) and turbine island (TI), balance of plant (BOP), and switchyard.

• Provide Technical Leadership and Process Ownership for the development of electrical models and analysis support the design of the plant electrical distribution system.
• Electrical models will include both AC and DC systems, component equipment. This generally includes the following equipment types:
  Utility Grid Interconnection, Main Turbine Generators including governor and excitation system, Large Power Transformers (GSU/UAT/RAT), Protective relaying, Standby Diesel Generators, Medium, Low Voltage Switchgear and MCCs, Load modeling including ASD, Motor and constant impedance loads, UPS/DC Systems including both lead acid and lithium‑ion battery technology.
• Typical AC analysis covered:
  Transient Stability, Transformer Optimization for generation interconnect, Load Flow, Short Circuit, Motor Starting, Protection and Coordination, Arc Flash.
• Typical UPS/DC Analysis:
  Battery Sizing and Discharge, Short Circuit, Control Circuit Analysis.
• Identify, develop, evaluate, introduce, and manage design solutions for plant electric power distribution systems (EPDS) design.
• Apply electrical circuit and electro‑magnetic theory, mathematical modeling, and simulation; power flow across modes of operation, setting boundaries, optimization, coordination within and across voltage levels, and understanding complex systems of systems.
• Collaborate with other disciplines to define and achieve functional, performance, reliability, availability, maintainability, inspect’ability (RAMI) goals using failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), and similar techniques.
• Support nuclear regulatory certification or licensing document preparation.
• Perform technical oversight, review, and verification of deliverables from suppliers to ensure their adequacy, accuracy, completeness, and compliance with requirements.
• Lead technical optioneering and assessment studies, root cause analyses, design reviews, etc.
• Ensure work products are on spec, budget, and schedule.
• Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and oversight with balanced, respectful mindset as well as staff competency qualification assessments.
• Champion knowledge capture and transfer, Lessons Learned, Best Practices, Design Guides, use of digital engineering tools, etc.
• Write and contribute to technical papers, awards, and patents – participate in industry groups.
• Establish productive working relationships with Engineering, Product and Project Management, support functions, and external suppliers.
• Deliver with integrity, safety and security, quality, then output at cost – champion nuclear culture.
• Support LEAN, Design To Cost, Value Engineering, etc.

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering for Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics or equivalent technical degree.
• 10 years of experience using digital tools preparing dynamic or transient physics‑based modeling, simulation, analysis [ETAP] of electrical systems.
• 10 years of experience in heavy and high reliability industries such as nuclear, power, process, marine, oil & gas, military, etc. design requirements, specifications, documentation, and related detailed design artifacts including procurement packages using digital tools such…