Position Description:
The Senior Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer will review and provide critical comments and recommendations on RELAP and MELCOR vendor-related products.
Responsibilities:
- Develop, maintain and update SMR-300 RELAP and MELCOR base decks to ensure they reflect plant design changes;
- Prepare and review design deliverables and presentations;
- Support development of engineering and licensing documentation;
- Mentor and lead other PSA engineers on the techniques and requirements associated with evaluating the plant and containment response;
- Lead and execute key severe accident and containment response; and
- Provide mentoring to other PSA team members on the development and use of RELAP and MELCOR.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Nuclear Engineering, Thermal Power Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field;
- 4 years of experience as a Thermohydraulic Analyst, or a related occupation;
- Experience using thermal hydraulic and containment response codes (i.e. MELCOR);
- Experience in commercial nuclear design or operation;
- Experience conducting safety analysis of Pressurized Water-type reactors (PWR);
- Experience performing transient and accident analyses using system thermal hydraulic codes;
- Experience performing radiological consequences analyses using RADTRAD and RASCAL;
- Experience conducting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses; and
- Experience using: computer codes for NPP model development and risk quantification (i.e. CAFTA, SAPHIRE, RiskSpectrum, or equivalent).
- Must be eligible to work in accordance with DOE 10 CFR section 810.
Top Skills
What We Do
Holtec International is a global turnkey supplier of equipment and services for the Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Fossil Power Generation sectors of the energy and petrochemical industry. As a fully integrated supplier, Holtec possesses in-house capabilities to design, engineer, analyze, construct, license, and deploy the technologies offered by the company; this includes technologies to manage used nuclear fuel and waste discharged from nuclear reactors and wet and dry (air cooled) heat transfer equipment for commercial power plants. Holtec is also developing a Small Modular Reactor (SMR), which will provide for modular, distributed, carbon-free, base-load energy.
Holtec International’s industrial activities are principally focused on six continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, China, Ukraine, Canada, Mexico, the United States and Brazil are among the countries where Holtec International has provided significant goods and services. The domestic market in the United States, however, has been the catalyst for Holtec’s technical innovations in its fields of endeavor, which the company has successfully parlayed into business successes in overseas markets. Over 70% of Holtec’s output is consumed by the domestic power industry; the balance is destined for foreign markets. Holtec’s corporate moorings are firmly and deeply anchored in the power industry: Over 150 power generation stations in the U.S., including over 80 commercial nuclear power plants, have been Holtec customers over the past two decades.
Holtec International has a long and excellent reputation for honesty and integrity in business dealings. This reputation is a priceless asset which must be safeguarded continually by all Holtec employees. To succeed, Holttec must have the trust and confidence of its customers, subcontractors, suppliers, fellow associates and the public. Maintaining an unwavering commitment to the highest standards of business ethics and conduct is crucial to Holtec’s future.
