This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), Division of Reactor Oversight (DRO), Quality Assurance and Vendor Inspection Branch.  The supervisor is Kerri Kavanagh.   This position is Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208.  This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position is subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.

Duties

As a Senior Reactor Operations Engineer (QA/Vendor Inspector), you will have the responsibility for 1) the inspection of vendors of safety related items for nuclear power plants and 2) development of Commission QA policy nuclear power plants.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• This is a Drug Testing position.
• Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires

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 and experience in an engineering or scientific discipline, QA principles it applies to applicants, licensees, vendors of safety related items for nuclear power plants. Examples may include specific training, education and work experience that demonstrate your knowledge as a subject matter expert in an engineering or scientific discipline, or QA principles related to technical assessments of applicants, licensees, vendors of safety related items for nuclear power plants.  For example, completing safety evaluations, supporting inspection programs, enforcement, licensee amendments, and exemptions.  Have extensive experience with the Vendor Inspection Program, the Reactor Oversight Process, or NRC Enforcement Policy and Allegations Process. 2. Demonstrated knowledge of NRC regulations, regulatory guides, industry codes and standards applicable to QA programs. Examples may include work experience and training, gained through industry, NRC, or other organizations, that demonstrates your knowledge of the above.  Provide several examples of work assignments that required you to apply your knowledge of the regulatory instruments and standards listed. 3. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with internal and external organizations on projects on a variety of subjects related to quality assurance and inspection programs, as it applies to applicants, licensees, vendors of safety related items for nuclear power plants. Examples may include specific experience and accomplishments, including your role and responsibilities, communicating effectively with individuals of diverse backgrounds in various organizations to resolve problems and/or recommended solutions to these problems. Examples may include experience, training, and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to communicate and present complex technical information clearly and effectively to professional societies, peers, management, general public, governmental agencies, or others. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as extensive experience that demonstrates an ability to independently review, analyze and develop of policy and criteria pertaining to the procurement, design, fabrication and use of safety related items for nuclear power plants.  Provides expert technical and programmatic support on safety inspection activities in the area of design, fabrication, use and maintenance of safety related items for nuclear power plants which may include performing lead roles in complex, multi-disciplined team inspections.  Additionally, provides expert technical support on QA programs as it applies to applicants, licensees, vendors of safety related items for nuclear power plants.  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

0801/0840 Basic Requirements: 

1. 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

1. 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.)

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Human Resources Attn: Joanne Kennedy Washington, District of Columbia 20555 United States
• Name: Joanne Kennedy
• Phone: 301-415-0431
• Email: [email protected]