GE HITACHI NUCLEAR - Distributed Control System Design Senior Engineer

Job Description Summary

Instrumentation and Control (I&C) Simulation Assisted Engineering (SAE) engineer works along with the physical plant model SAE team, Human Factors Engineering (HFE) team and Electrical team to enable LEAN integrated plant design (IPD) using modern digital engineering tools and techniques. SAE is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, systems engineering approach to complex IPD, analysis, and optimization. SAE is based on the use of a modern, physics and mathematics, digital engineering modeling, logic development and simulation software toolkit. Focus is on technical risk, engineering labor, and schedule duration reduction during first of a kind (FOAK) plant design.

Job Description

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:
• Collaborate in cross-functional environment of; Physics based plant model, Electrical, and HFE to successful deployment, implementation, and lifecycle stewardship of the multi-organization and multi-geographic SAE environment.
• Own and maintain a singular Control Main Part List (CMPL) while ensuring requirements and configuration management are updated and baselined as necessary.
• Develop and run scenarios for single systems, collections of interrelated systems, or entire power plant for: startup, shutdown, and dynamic maneuvering throughout all modes of plant operations.
• Collaborate with simulation software discipline Leads to prepare plans, procedures, and reports then perform factory acceptance test (FAT) and site acceptance test (SAT) for simulator, Discrepancy Reports (DR), enhancement requests, technical oversight issues, and training needs.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Systems, or Physics, Chemistry, or equivalent technical degree.
• Significant proven experience in simulation, development of control logics, using modern physics, mathematics, and software based modeling tools for design, analysis, or training involving; nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, PID tuning, plant process fluidic and mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control, monitoring systems.

Desired Qualifications:
• Master of Science in Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Systems, or Physics, Chemistry.

• Expertise in the application of GE's MarkVIe product family and of GE's Cimplicity software (SCADA)

• Expertise in the application of Rockwell Automation of Allen Bradley/FactoryTalk, Siemen's Totally Integrated Automation (TIA)

• Experience working with Industry protocols like MODBUS, Profibus, Profinet, FF, CAN, Ethernet

• Proficiency in programming languages like C/C++/C#/Java/Python and ability to write code for macro functional block diagrams and test scripts.
• Experience using modern digital engineering collaboration and design tools (e.g., 3KeyMaster/WSC, Easy5/MSC, Simulink MATLAB/MathWorks)

• Experience developing high fidelity engineering simulator or FSS integrated with a DCS platform either via virtual controller or emulation.

• Knowledge of software design for cybersecurity.
• Knowledge of:

• ANSI/ANS-3.5-2009 Nuclear Power Plant simulators for use in operator training and examination

• REG GUIDE 1.149 Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Facilities for use in operator training, License examination and applicant experience requirements

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No