Senior Instrumentation Engineer

Overview

At GE Vernova, we are united by a single, urgent, and optimistic mission: electrify to thrive and decarbonize. The world needs us to accelerate the transition to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. Together, we have the energy to change the world.

As a Senior Instrumentation Engineer with Instrument Application Engineering (IAE), you will be responsible for strategic planning, requirements and application selections, inspection, testing, analysis, evaluation or qualification, and technical oversight to meet functional, performance, process, qualification, customer, and regulatory requirements. This role is focused on B21 BWRX-300 where under vessel instrumentation expertise is required. You will need to understand reactor design, application of local power range monitoring, wide range neutron monitoring, heater junction thermocouple, gamma-thermometers, reactor core quadrants, operational requirements of nuclear instrumentation, rod control interaction with nuclear instruments.

Knowledge of rod testing evolutions, nuclear fuel distributions, and overall reactor core physics desired. This role is a technical “thought leader” for the Instrumentation & Control and Electrical team.

• Define and lifecycle manage through commissioning the system requirements covering plant, system, and component: interfaces, function, performance, process, qualification, standards, regulatory guidance, certification or licensing commitments, technical contract, human factors, safety hazards, reliability, cyber security, etc.

• Work with design partners on the reactor under vessel scope of design work associated with local power range monitors, wide range monitoring systems, gamma-thermometers, heater junction thermocouples, under-vessel mechanical components, and any other instrumentation within the BWRX-300 SMR nuclear boiler system, as required.

• Understand or have the capacity to learn nuclear reactor physics and instrumentation sensor applications for reactor neutron, temperature, pressure, level, flow, and any other parameters monitoring (desired).

• Lead the planning and conduct the evaluation, selection, application, and adaptation of instrumentation / sensor / transducer application engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria to support cross- discipline integrated plant design (IPD) environment

• Develop and lead the selection and application of instrumentation, sensors, transducers, and packaged systems in a wide variety of electrical, HVAC, hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, ultrasonic, etc., designs using both traditional analog and digital “smart” instrumentation for the following types of measured parameters;
  Temperature, Pressure, Level, Flow, Machinery Rotation and Vibration, Area and Process Radiation Monitoring, Seismic Monitoring, Metro logical Monitoring, etc.

• Provide technical oversight, plus develop and provide technical oversight of the preparation and modification of instrumentation requirements, and other IAE engineering deliverables. Ensure deliverables are on-spec., on-budget, and on-schedule

• Support business and sourcing to:
  1) ensure that procurement specification packages are properly developed,
  2) evaluate and assist with selection of suppliers, and
  3) respond to questions/requests/submittals

• Develop and implement plan to address and close US NRC design certification [DCD] and customer specific plant licensing [COL] open items/request for information including but not limited to design acceptance criteria (DAC) and inspection, test, or analysis and acceptance criteria (ITAAC) and provide mentorship to less experienced engineers.

• Establish productive working relationships and provide technical expertise to Engineer-Procure-Construct (EPC) team, project management, support functions, suppliers, regulators, customers, etc and collaborate with external Architectural Engineering (AE) organizations.

• Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering, nuclear engineering, electronics engineering, or automation engineering, or related field.

• 8 years of engineering experience working with instrumentation as part of design or engineering…