Fellow Technical Advisor

Description

• Direct SRNL in process flowsheet development and anomaly evaluation
• Provide direction to safety basis development strategy and input selection
• Provide technical oversight, technical support and engineering leadership for chemical process systems and unit operations (e.g., solvent extraction, dissolving, evaporation, ion-exchange, precipitation, calcination, etc.) in the Savannah River H-Canyon and HB-Line operating nuclear materials processing plants. Including:
• Perform daily work duties in accordance with Site procedure E7 and 11Q
• Nuclear system operations and supporting technical bases for the following: building air supply, exhaust, exhaust filtration (HEPA and sand filter), chemical storage and distribution systems, steam, cooling water supply and return, compressed air (breathing, instrument, process, and plant), electrical, nuclear criticality alarm systems and their control schemes including distributed controls.
• Develop process flow sheets
• Provide evaluations and recommendations to Engineering Management on nuclear operations
• Perform and support site organization in mission and strategic planning for H-Canyon and HB-Line
• Provide general engineering support to ensure safe facility operations
• Provide technical oversight to facility engineering organizations and mentoring of junior engineers
• Perform technical reviews of engineering and nuclear safety documents
• Lead technical teams to resolve division-wide issues

Requirements

• DNFSB Interaction to discuss / resolve technical issues and concerns.
• Ability to sit/ stand for up to 8 hours per day.
• Ability to move freely for up to 8 hours per day.
• Technical and safety related knowledge of SRS Fuel processing including PUREX and HM oxidation reduction flowsheets, and electrolytic dissolution.
• Candidate must have ability to walkdown systems in the field.
• Candidate must have a minimum 30 years of experience with DOE nuclear material processing.
• Active DOE “L” or “Q” security clearance
• Ability to integrate nuclear safety, operations, and chemical processes.
• 20 or more years of experience working in plutonium facilities or on plutonium projects. 15 or more years of 413.3B project management experience 5 or more years of experience on NNSA/DOE capital line-item projects Experience/Skills: 10 or more years working at the Savannah River Site is preferred
• Candidate must have strong oral and written communication skills. Teamwork skills are important in the highly-matrixed project environment at the SRS.
• Master’s degree in a technical field with 25 years broad experience in engineering, operations, marketing, strategic and business planning, or a
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 30 years’ experience as described above.
• Familiarity with H-area and F-area Separations processes is preferred.
• Properties and characteristics of nuclear materials such as 239Pu, 238Pu, 237Np, 233U, HEU, LEU, NU, 241Am, and other unique and rare isotopes.
• PE License in the state of SC
• PMP Certification
• Must understand and have experience with the following:

Benefits

• A 40 hour work week is scheduled. SRNS utilizes various work schedules including 5/8s (8 hour/day; five days per week), 4/10’s (10 hours/day; four days per week), and 9/80’s (9 hours/day, five days on week AA and four days on week BB. Work week excludes SRNS holidays. Each workday has 30-minute lunch. Overtime will be expected at times to meet deliverables and will be utilized at the discretion of the Manager

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance