This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), Division of Engineering and External Hazards (DEX), Electrical Engineering Branch (EEEB). The supervisor is Wendell Morton. This position is in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury 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 an Electrical Engineer, 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.  Significant experience in applying in-depth knowledge of the theory and current practices related to the design, operation, control, and safety of commercial nuclear power plants with an emphasis for onsite and offsite electrical systems and equipment design and analysis.  Describe education, training, and experience which demonstrate your ability in the listed areas.  Provide specific examples of experience in applying your knowledge to issues associated with current and/or future commercial nuclear power plant onsite and offsite electrical systems and equipment designs. 2.  Demonstrated knowledge of electrical systems and equipment used in Nuclear Power Plants.  Knowledge of onsite and offsite electrical power supply and distribution system designs.  Knowledge of commercial nuclear power plant electrical equipment environmental qualification and requirements engineering.  Describe experience and proficiency in evaluating and assessing safety related electrical systems with emphasis on systems analysis, system requirements and factors related to plant safety such as load flow and coordination.  Describe experience in developing or evaluating electrical systems and equipment environmental qualification or aging mechanisms as they apply to electrical systems. 3.  Demonstrated knowledge of NRC regulations, regulatory guides, and industry codes and standards applicable to electrical systems and equipment including knowledge of electrical equipment aging management.  Describe your work experience and training, gained through industry, NRC, or other organizations, which demonstrates your knowledge of the above.  Provide examples of work assignments that require you to apply your knowledge of the regulatory instruments and standards listed or participation in standards development organizations. 4.  Demonstrated ability to independently plan, direct, coordinate, and manage complex, highly technical projects. Demonstrated ability to anticipate problem areas and/or emerging technical issues and develop projects/tasks leading to issue resolution.  Provide examples of relevant technical projects/tasks you have developed and managed, with a focus on identification of problem areas, emerging issues and processes used to achieve resolution.  Describe specific training, education, and experience that demonstrate your ability to manage complex, technical projects.  Describe your specific roles in the oversight and technical direction of the projects. 5.  Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical issues both orally and in writing.  Describe the reports and presentations you have made at technical meetings, conferences, or symposia, both nationally and internationally which demonstrate your capability in the above areas.  Describe work assignments that demonstrate your ability to communicate technical objectives, results, and findings of research studies and programs or other technical projects.  Describe the purpose, audience, and outcome of your written and oral communications. Specialized experience for this position is defined as: significant experience in the field of electrical engineering including analysis, design, and operation of electrical power systems, including alternating and direct current systems, and of related engineering models sufficient to independently review and evaluate the adequacy of the safety aspects of the design and functional capability of the plant systems and components. Knowledge of current nuclear power plant design, construction, and operational experience particularly that pertain to electrical power 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.

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.)

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]