This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Division of Risk Assessment, PRA Licensing Branch A. The supervisor is Bob Pascarelli. This position is in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position IS not subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS not subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.

Duties

The successful candidate will perform the full range of reliability and risk analyst duties.Such duties include but are not limited to:

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• This is a Drug Testing position.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:1. Demonstrated knowledge of structures, systems, component design and general operating characteristics of nuclear reactors. (EXAMPLE: Describe your experience performing reviews and evaluations in the design and functional capability of nuclear power plants to withstand transient and accident conditions.) 2. DOUBLE WEIGHTED - Demonstrated experience applying the principles, theories, and practices of probabilistic risk analysis in the assessment of new or operating commercial nuclear power reactors. Experience in reviewing risk-informed license amendment requests and pilot risk applications for new or operating reactors should be highlighted. (EXAMPLE: Describe experience, education, and training which demonstrates your knowledge of the principles, theories and practices of engineering or physical science as it relates to the application of reliability and risk analysis in nuclear power facility design, analysis, testing, maintenance and/or operations. Provide examples demonstrating your experience in the application of probabilistic risk analysis for nuclear power plants. Describe your accomplishments in areas such as Levels 1 and 2, internal and external events PRAs; human reliability analysis; common cause failure analysis; and fault tree and event tree modeling. Describe your experience reviewing risk informed license amendment requests and pilot risk applications for operating reactors; applying NRC guidance (i.e., SRP Chapter 19, RG 1.174, RG 1.200) to those applications; resolving issues with the applicant or licensee during these reviews; and writing safety evaluations.)3. Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and experience in the formulation of sound technical judgement on the adequacy of existing and proposed systems design and operation. (Describe specific experience, training, and accomplishments which demonstrate your ability to formulate technical judgement. Provide several examples of judgements, recommendations, or actions you have taken in regard to the adequacy of reactor systems design or analytical methods used in reactor systems analyses. Describe your ability to identify complex issues and recommend successful approaches for resolution. Highlight examples that demonstrate resourcefulness, initiative, and ingenuity in completing the work. 4. Ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, subordinates, executive management, ACRS, the Commission, members of the public, representatives of professional groups, or other Federal or State agencies. (EXAMPLE: Describe specific experience, training and accomplishments which demonstrate your communication skills, both orally and in writing. Describe your ability to lead complex technical discussions and consolidate complex and diverse opinions into concise presentations, memoranda, letters, reports. Describe your ability to formulate balanced and well-founded recommendations. Describe oral and written presentations you have performed within your organization, including published technical documents you have authored. Describe presentations you have made to outside groups including professional organizations, advisory groups, the public, and/or Congress.)  SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates a thorough knowledge of the theory, principles and practices in the area of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) and reactor systems with specialized knowledge of the application of reliability and risk analysis in nuclear facility design, fabrication, construction, analysis, testing, maintenance and operation; knowledge of PRA sufficient to evaluate the acceptability of licensing basis changes proposed by licensees that are supported by the plant’s PRA. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume.

Education

GG-0801 (General Engineering Series):

Basic Requirements:

A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.

OR

B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

GG-1301, (General Physical Science Series):

Basic requirements:

• Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. 

OR

• Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Attn: T2-A77M Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Lindsey Redden
• Phone: 301-287-0519
• Email: [email protected]