Criticality Safety Engineer

Job Title

Criticality Safety Engineer

Duties

As a Criticality Safety Engineer, you will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Reviews design criteria, construction, and operations of new equipment or modifications related to nuclear safety activities, e.g., critical experiments, activities, and operations.
• Maintains familiarity with current processes, materials, and status of facilities at the SRFO through frequent site visits, discussions, and reviews of reports to provide timely advice concerning nuclear safety. Based on oversight activities, makes decisions, provides guidance and technical expertise, assistance and direction regarding the safety of such activities and related programs.
• Provides safety base management to ensure that Nuclear Criticality Safety Programs are established at SRFO. The incumbent comprehensively addresses critical safety with all identified risks to acceptable levels; fully documents management authorizations to operate and assures protection of the public, employees, property and the environment from the effects of a critical accident.
• Investigates accidents and other abnormal conditions concerning safety/criticality issues ensuring that corrective actions are taken by contractor personnel to prevent recurrence. Technically evaluates such data to determine if trends are evident, which could indicate further problem areas and independently takes action to mitigate such.
• Plans (short- and long-term), manages coordinates, reviews, evaluates, develops and implements safety basis programs, providing technical consultation to senior NNSA/DOE managers on sensitive nuclear safety and security issues.
• Serves as a recognized expert regarding NNSA SRFO Safety Basis Programs. In this capacity, serves as a member or chairs NNSA or DOE, industry, or national technical committees, and provides expert technical and programmatic advice to other NNSA and DOE offices as well as contractor facilities where unique and highly complex problems arise.
• Monitors, reviews, and evaluates contractor's program performance and all related activities by conducting program reviews, establishing performance measures, and monitoring compliance and corrective actions and providing performance evaluation to assure compliance with all applicable DOE and NNSA orders, safety codes, technical specification, operating procedures, ANS standards, and other regulations and policy.