This position is located in Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), Division of Engineering and External Hazards (DEX), Instrumentation and Controls Branch and Long Term Operations and Modernization Branch.  The Supervisor of the position is Fanta Sacko. This position is Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position is not subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure or security ownership restriction reporting requirements.

Duties

The successful candidate will perform the full range of Electronics Engineer duties including the following:

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. In-depth knowledge of the theory, principles, and practices related to electrical or electronics engineering with emphasis on the design, operations, analysis, and safety of high reliability instrumentation and control systems, particularly when used in commercial nuclear power generation.  Describe education, training, experience, and accomplishments which demonstrate your ability in the listed areas. Provide examples of your experience in safety analysis and design of high reliability instrumentation and control systems, particularly those used in nuclear power plants. Provide examples of other actions you have taken in regard to the adequacy and safety of systems, components, and equipment in commercial nuclear power plants including instrumentation and control systems. 2. Knowledge of analog and digital technology applied to real-time systems, hardware, and software sufficient to evaluate design and operation of high reliability instrumentation and control systems, and particularly those systems as used in commercial nuclear power plant. Describe specific work experience, training, education, and accomplishments that demonstrate your proficiency in critical instrumentation and control systems with emphasis on system analysis, system requirements, interfaces, hardware, software, process dynamics, design life cycle, the verification and validation process, and the factors related to safety. 3. Knowledge of NRC regulations, regulatory guides, or industry codes and standards applicable to safety related instrumentation and control systems. Describe experience that demonstrates your knowledge and ability to apply standards and practices used to develop and qualify high reliability instrumentation and control systems. Experience with NRC requirements, NRC regulatory and/or inspection guidance, and applicable industry codes and standards related to instrumentation and control systems including digital systems should be specifically addressed. 4. Ability to analyze and resolve technical issues and to manage technical projects related to complex analog and digital and instrumentation and control issues such as those found in nuclear power plants. Experience with management of these issues at commercial nuclear power plants should be specifically addressed. Describe your professional experience with problem identification and resolution and give specific examples of instances which demonstrate your problem-solving skills.  Provide specific examples that demonstrate your experience and knowledge of project management, your ability to review, coordinate, and manage the activities of a project within schedule and resource limitations, establish effective interactions with technical individuals to accomplish common objectives, and consolidate complex and assorted opinions. Provide an indication of the approximate number, type and complexity of the projects in which you have been involved. 5. Ability to communicate clearly, both orally and in writing, on technical issues in a sound and logical manner.  Describe the types of writing you routinely generate. Discuss examples where you have utilized skills in communicating complex technical issues to professional societies, peers, management, general public, governmental agencies, or others. Describe oral briefings you have presented, including to whom, at what level, and for what purpose. Describe the opportunities you have had to be a lead author, presenter or briefer on a technical or regulatory issue. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as: Experience with current nuclear power plant design, construction, and operational experience particularly that pertain to electronics and instrumentation and control system engineering responsibility.  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

You must include an unofficial or official copy of your college and/or university transcripts with your application.  Education must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of credibility of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency.  If you have multiple degrees (e.g., BS, MS, PhD) please submit transcripts for each degree.

Electronics Engineering Series 0855:

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

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:

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.

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.

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.

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]