Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Reactor Project Instrumentation and Controls Engineer to work in our Reactor Project Engineering department. Our team works a 4x10 schedule located out of our Materials and Fuels Complex with every Friday off. INL is recognized as the lead national laboratory for DOE-NE, providing much of the nuclear research, development, and demonstration capability needed to move nuclear innovation forward to deployment. MFC hosts a unique combination of personnel, facilities and infrastructure and offers the ability to perform research and development of nuclear fuels from fuel development and fabrication through post irradiation analysis. Responsibilities Include: Provide instrumentation and controls engineering for a novel advanced reactor design project. You will use the application of engineering principles to research, develop, install, and maintain equipment required to manage the equipment and systems used in advanced nuclear reactors. The I&C engineer will design safety related reactor control systems including the reactor protection system. Will include preparing releasable drawings, calculations, and specifications for electrical or mechanical instrumentation and controls (including Distributed Control Systems and Programmable Logic Controllers) for design, construction, or maintenance. - Work with a diverse team of scientists and engineers on a novel advanced reactor design. - Decompose project goals into defined and controlled design requirements using a systems engineering approach and applying digital engineering tools for tracking requirements and design parameters. - Use design methodologies, technologies, and processes which are best practice for the technical discipline to develop a design, and to validate that the design meets defined requirements. - Work with all partners to identify requirements and commercially available technologies that meet specific specifications. Decompose project goals into defined and controlled design requirements. - Design instrumentation and controls systems for an advanced reactor, including the reactor protection system. - Use design methodologies, technologies, and processes which are best practice for the technical discipline to develop a design, and to validate that the design meets defined requirements. - Develop physics-based mathematical models of mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems to support and verify design. - Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements to ensure technical features important to design functions are maintained. - Oversee or otherwise ensure that fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement are done following the design. - Ensure that analysis needs are recorded and clearly understood. Document the design (controlled and approved models, drawings, specifications, design descriptions) to establish conformance with design requirements and applicable codes and standards. - Ensure that data and analysis generated by the instruments is of high quality and meet customer and user needs. - Maintain knowledge of new technologies and applications to the nuclear industry.
