Technical Leader - Nuclear Advanced Applications

March 17

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

Although this job is listed in North Carolina, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $112k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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GE Vernova

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GE Vernova is a leader in the energy sector with over 130 years of experience, dedicated to electrifying the world while decarbonizing it. The company offers a broad portfolio of energy solutions including gas, hydro, nuclear, and wind power technologies, aimed at providing reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. With a strong focus on innovation, GE Vernova plays a significant role in reducing the carbon footprint of global power systems and supports the transition to net-zero emissions by 2030.

10,000+ employees

⚡ Energy

🚀 Aerospace

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• This role is within the Fuels and Digital Engineering Methods, Analysis, and Design team, which is responsible for the development, maintenance, analytics, technical consultation, and licensing of engineering computer codes, correlations, methodologies, and new fuel and core designs related to new and advanced reactor types, with a special focus on the Natrium Demonstration Reactor, a sodium-cooled fast reactor. • The team supports the design of advanced nuclear applications through engineering scope ownership of advanced methods and safety analyses, delivering high caliber development and analysis of complex technologies. • The Technical Leader is a senior-band position responsible for the planning and execution of work scope spanning multiple disciplines.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear or Mechanical Engineering, Computational Methods, Physics, Mathematics or related Science or technical discipline. • At least 8 years of experience in engineering design and/or project leadership experience. • At least 6 years of experience in the nuclear industry or equivalent large scale new build experience in the power industry. • M.S. or Ph.D. in computational methods, thermal-hydraulics, nuclear engineering, or a closely related discipline. • Experience with project management tools and schedule development. • Experience with team leadership, project management, and resource allocation. • Understand standard engineering work planning, scheduling, and conduct independent work requiring judgement in the application of engineering techniques. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skill. • Prior experience working on advanced nuclear designs. • Cognizant of current industry developments including the role of SMRs, microreactors, and non-electrical applications. • Experience in new product development within complex systems. • Extensive knowledge of the fundamental principles of nuclear engineering such as nuclear physics and thermal hydraulics. • Prior experience with subchannel thermal-hydraulic methods for any reactor type (e.g., TRACG, RELAP, GOTHIC, COBRA, DASSH, SUPERENERGY and variants). • Prior experience with neutronic methods (eg., MCNP, PARTISN, MC2-3, DIF3D). • Prior experience with the development of new fuel designs including the management of thermal hydraulic testing (integral effects or separate-effects; full-scale or reduced scale). • Prior experience with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) using ANSYS-Fluent or similar. • Experience with software Commercial Grade Dedication in accordance with NQA-1. • Programming experience with Fortran or C/C++, and Python. • Extensive knowledge of methodology development. • Experience with coding and code development. • Working knowledge of nuclear reactor core licensing, technical specifications, safety margin bases, code methodology licensing, and related federal regulations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; • access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; • access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling, and referral services. • Retirement benefits include the GE Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401 (k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, • access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. • Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.