Senior Structural Engineer/Analyst

Requisition ID:  273680

Requisition Posting End Date: 04/30/2024

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades. 

We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity!
 

Position Summary:

This role will support design development Structural engineering designs for the project by preparing studies, drawings, calculations, specifications, and evaluations, in accordance with applicable procedures, codes, standards, and contract requirements. Work with other Structural engineers and technical disciplines in a team environment. 
 

Responsibilities:

• Originate and check complex structural engineering deliverables, such as steel and concrete calculations and specifications.
• Originate and check complex structural analysis models using ANSYS or GT STRUDL.
• Reviews and coordinates technical documents with/from other engineering disciplines.
• Prepare technical reports relates to specific design issues.
• Provides technical direction to designers and less experienced engineers as directed.
• Assist in constructability reviews.

Qualifications and Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Engineering (Civil/Structural or related), from an accredited university, with at least 9 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, 15 years of professional experience. 
• This role requires a facility-specific clearance that requires U.S. Citizenship or permanent residency status.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proficient in the use of structural analysis software such as GTSTRUDL or ANSYS.
• Prior experience working in a Nuclear Quality and Safety Environment.
• Ability to independently perform structural analysis of nuclear structures.
• Ability to express technical issues in a clear and concise manner, both written and verbally.
• Excellent listening, oral and written communication, planning and organizational skills are essential.
• Experience with CADD applications, such as MicroStation, Tekla and NavisWorks.
• Experience with Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Must be able to complete a pre-employment drug screen, and background check.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have a U.S. Professional Engineering (PE) license

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