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 not subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position is not subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements

Duties

As a Reactor Operations Engineer (QA/Vendor Inspector), you will review and evaluate new reactor license applications in the areas of quality assurance and initial test programs and licensing activities that involve complex or controversial issues. You will perform technical, policy, and program functions related to the implementation of the vendor inspection program for new and operating reactors, including leading or participating in vendor and quality assurance (QA) inspections.  You will identify and participate in tasks required for development and implementation of policy. You will provide guidance and assistance in the resolution of issues raised because of reviews associated with the development of regulatory guidance, events reported by licensees, or identified by inspectors. Such duties include but are not limited to:

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. Knowledge of an engineering or scientific discipline, or radiation protection or QA principles, and demonstrated ability to conduct and lead multi-disciplinary inspections of NRC licensees, certificate holders, vendors, and suppliers.  (Describe specific work experience, education, and training that demonstrate ability to act as a subject matter expert in an engineering or scientific discipline, or QA principles.  Describe specific work experience, education, and training that demonstrate your ability to perform, as a member or leader of an inspection team, inspections of, certificate holders, vendors, and suppliers, or entities that operate under equivalent (DOE or NQA-1) QA programs.  Describe experience or ability to develop inspection plans and schedules, direct and coordinate inspection team activities, participate in interviews of licensee, etc., staff and management, and prepare inspection reports.) 2. Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.  (Describe specific experience, training and accomplishments that demonstrate your communication skills. Describe in detail your ability to (1) lead complex technical discussions and consolidate complex and diverse opinions into concise presentations; (2) formulate balanced and well‑founded recommendations.  Describe the various levels of individuals you interact with and for what purposes. Describe presentations or formal training you delivered and what topics.) 3. Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with peers, co-workers, and various levels of management both inside and outside the agency. (Describe your experience with collaborative efforts in which you were part of a diverse interdisciplinary team.  Describe opportunities where you worked as a part of a team and in which you had the responsibility for directing a team.  Describe experiences involving your co-workers and individuals from other organizations.  Describe experiences with dealing with various levels of management both within and outside your current organization.  Include a discussion of challenging situations including both technical and personal complications which had to be resolved.) 4. Demonstrated ability to manage all aspects of a complex project: development, coordination, review, scheduling, etc.  (Describe specific work experience that demonstrates your ability to handle the technical and administrative aspects of project management.  Address your experience with all aspects of project management from design through implementation to final product.) SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates knowledge of overall engineering or scientific principles related to the safety inspection activities in the area of procurement, design, fabrication and use of safety related items for nuclear power plants.  Additionally, knowledge of QA programs as it applies to applicants, licensees, and vendors of nuclear power plants is required.  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]