Talent Bridge: Applied Mechanical Engineer Location: MFC Site, Idaho National Laboratory Schedule: 4X10’s with every Friday off Program Duration: 12 months, with a potential 1-year extension. Position Overview: Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is seeking a recent bachelor's graduate for our Talent Bridge program, designed to transition individuals from academic study to career readiness. As an Applied Mechanical Engineer, you will use engineering principles to design, build, test, and install specialized equipment that supports nuclear fuel fabrication activities. You will create CAD-driven designs, develop lab-scale components, run experiments, and assemble and test fabrication systems to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations. This role blends engineering design with hands-on fabrication, experimentation, and plant maintenance support. Responsibilities: - Decompose project objectives into defined and controlled design requirements. - Use design methodologies, technologies, and processes which are best practice for the technical discipline to develop and define a design, and to validate that the design meets defined requirements. - Maintain familiarity with and technical understanding of codes and standards applicable to the discipline. - Oversee or otherwise ensure that fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement are done in accordance with the design. - Provide solutions to technical problems and recommendations for improvements in production activities. This may include planning, design, and constructing manufacturing facilities and similar structures or production processes. - Support and lead the development of new projects at the INL in area of specialty, including the development of proposals and business plans. - Responsible for experiment design and fabrication and associated activities leading to irradiation. Establish experiment designs, demonstrate experiment requirements, and confirm experiment integrated analyses to ensure nuclear safety basis are met. Knowledge/Skills/Abilities - Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. - Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. - Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. - Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). - Ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. - Ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. - Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
