Principal Design Engineer

Job Purpose

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Lead development of permanent design modifications, including business cases and cost benefit analyses, to plant systems, components, and structures to maintain and improve plant reliability and safety.
• Liaise with the design change committee to keep modifications prioritized and well communicated.
• Provide support in the management of functional locations and equipment master database to ensure accurate plant records for safety and maintainability.
• Provide support to the configuration management process and coach more junior engineers on the value of the process to keep the plant in configuration control.
• Support the unit start-up test, Power Ascension Test (PAT), to identify any possible engineering issues.
• Validate engineering documents and data to maintain accurate and relevant design engineering records.
• Manage the creation of consolidated equipment and process lists, such as set points and breakers, to keep it current and support additional analysis as required.
• Provide advanced technical support to operations, maintenance, engineering, and other plant or central organizations as required to solve difficult technical issues
• Identify and direct design engineering work to resolve issues via the corrective action and work management processes to support safe and reliable operation.
• Develop, review, and validate engineering products in accordance with defined standards and procedures to provide effective design modification.
• Provide support in the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) operational peer reviews to align to industrial best practices.
• Identify potential cyber-security items to the Cyber-Security Action team within I&C Design Engineering to ensure the items' proper evaluation.
• Lead Design seismic qualification reviews and specification development to ensure consistency with seismic program requirements.
• Lead the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) change impact assessment to ensure that design changes are consistent with the requirements of the FSAR.
• Lead the Structural Monitoring Program performed by the Civil Design Engineering section to ensure that current conditions can be well understood to support long-term operation and maintenance decisions (For Civil Design Only).
• Lead technical reviews and analysis of proposed software configuration management change items to track and control versions of application programs used for BNPP operation, design and analysis(For I&C Design Only).

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Provide feedback on training program effectiveness using operator performance evaluation to enhance the quality of the training and qualification program.
• Participate in training to equip necessary technical knowledge and skills.

Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Support outage and the ERO, as assigned, to ensure safe, reliable and continued operations; this may require shift work/off hours support.
• The incumbent is expected to perform standard activities as per attachments 4 & 5 in the Job Description procedure (relating to Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity, People Management, Excellence and Quality Management

Preferred

• APPU-ENG-IT-QC2001-SE.

Minimum

• Bachelors Degree or Diploma (or Equivalent) Degree in Engineering or related Science.
• 8 years of relevant experience, out of which:
• 1 year of Nuclear Power Plant engineering experience.

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with APR-1400 or OPR-1000 maintenance and engineering experience.