Senior Instrumentation Engineer

Job Description Summary

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.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• 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, Metrological 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 responsibilities in an industrial facility, preferably a nuclear power plant engineering environment and knowledge of electrical one-line diagrams, and mechanical process piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs).
• 8 years of experience with use of associated design/development, analysis, diagram/drawing, change, configuration, document, and workflow management systems.
• 8 years of experience with one or more of the following: IEC, NEC, CSA, ANSI, IEEE, ISA, ISO, NFPA, ASME, API standards for instrumentation and controls.

• For the United States the preferred work location for this role is at the GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy Headquarters in Wilmington, NC; but highly qualified (US based) remote candidates will be considered.
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
• For Canada this role requires working two days a week onsite in the Markham Ontario office.
• For Canada GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.
• Ability and willingness to travel 15-25%

• Master of Electrical Engineering, nuclear engineering, electronics engineering, automation engineering, reactor or nuclear physics degree, or related field.
• Professional Engineer (PE) - Control Systems by National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) or INPO Nuclear Engineering Training Program or Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program (NNPP).
• Experience with current US nuclear laws, rules, regulations, guidance, positions, memorandum, notices, bulletins, items, etc. [e.g., RG, NUREG, BTP, ISG, SRM, RIN, TMI]
• Experience with some or all of the following: US NRC regulatory guidance; RG 1.30, RG 1.89, RG 1.97, RG 1.105, RG 1.180, RG 1.209, IEEE Stds; 315, 323, 384, 488.1, 488.2, 488.1-1987, 497, 603, ANSI/ISA Stds; 5.1-2009, 5.2-1976 (R1992), 5.3-1983, 67.04.01-2006, 5.4-1991, 5.5-1985, 20-1981, RP67.04.02-2000 and EPRI Technical Reports and guidance; EPRI TR-102323, EPRI TR-106439.