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Posted: Mon Mar 04 2024
Nuclear Design and Shielding Engineer
Contract
Our client is seeking a Nuclear Design and Shielding Engineer to perform radiation shielding design and analysis for advanced nuclear reactors and medical isotopes separations facility, including calculating dose, activation rates, half thicknesses, DPA rates, energy deposition rates and gas production rates.
Location: Remote
Duration: 12+ month contract
Benefits: Three insurance levels, 401K + match, sick leave, and working with a great company!
Responsibilities
About Hansell Tierney:
Hansell Tierney is one of the premier staffing and recruiting companies in the Pacific Northwest. Launched in 2001, we are a woman-owned business that serves and staffs Northwest organizations by doing things the right way, not just the easiest way. Hansell Tierney partners with candidates and clients to match the best candidates with interesting local opportunities. We navigate every relationship with the highest level of discretion and service while holding ourselves accountable to our promises. Our business thrives on our deep understanding of the job market and our ability to skillfully tailor our recruitment process to meet our clients’ unique needs.
Location: Remote
Duration: 12+ month contract
Benefits: Three insurance levels, 401K + match, sick leave, and working with a great company!
Responsibilities
- Develop radiation source term based on materials activation analysis for non-fuel in-vessel components.
- Design and analyze new systems for solving complex problems.
- Design and execute sensitivity studies to understand the effects and validity of various modeling assumptions, including model geometry complexity, meshing, variance reduction techniques, transport options, cross section preparation, etc., and help build corrected methods if necessary.
- Establish and maintain documentation of analysis results and radiation shielding design solutions.
- Strong Experience with Silver Fir Attila Shielding Software and MCNP Unstructured Mesh capability
- Strong Experience with ANSYS Space Claim – or other CAD defeaturing experience
- Experience with Nuclear Software Qualification1. Strong Experience with Silver Fir Attila Shielding Software and MCNP Unstructured Mesh capability
- Strong Experience with ANSYS Space Claim – or other CAD defeaturing experience
- Experience with Nuclear Software Qualification
- B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering or equivalent experience; Advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience with nuclear analysis preferred.
- Knowledgeable or highly motivated to quickly learn basic nuclear reactor design concepts to meaningfully support engineering team with understanding of systems being designed and code being reviewed.
- Experience in core and/or radiation shielding design and analysis.
- Experience in criticality safety.
- Strong computational expertise.
- Experience with radiation shielding software such as Attila, MCNP, ADVANTG, Serpent, MAVRIC, MicroShield, SCALE, OpenMC, Whisper, PARTISN, etc.
- Experience with detailed depletion software such as ORIGEN
- Experience with nuclear core analysis software such as ARMI, DIF3D, MC2, DRAGON etc.
- Experience with computed aided drafting (e.g., SolidWorks, SpaceClaim/ANSYS, Cubit)
- Good working knowledge of nuclear and/or general numerical methods (e.g., activation analysis, dose rates, PDEs, dynamics, deterministic and stochastic particle transport, isotopic depletion, nuclear data, etc.).
- Excellent verbal and communication skills.
- Ability and professionalism to work within published regulatory guidelines for nuclear reactor design/
- An ability to perform professional-quality software development for nuclear applications is preferred.
- Strong programming skills in any language is a plus, but bonus points will be awarded for Python, Git, C++, and Fortran skills.
- Experience working under NQA-1 quality program desired.
- Maintain software by working with team to implement clearly defined enhancement requests and bug fixes.
- Strong communication skills desired
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
About Hansell Tierney:
Hansell Tierney is one of the premier staffing and recruiting companies in the Pacific Northwest. Launched in 2001, we are a woman-owned business that serves and staffs Northwest organizations by doing things the right way, not just the easiest way. Hansell Tierney partners with candidates and clients to match the best candidates with interesting local opportunities. We navigate every relationship with the highest level of discretion and service while holding ourselves accountable to our promises. Our business thrives on our deep understanding of the job market and our ability to skillfully tailor our recruitment process to meet our clients’ unique needs.
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