Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Talascend is currently seeking a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer for a remote, contract opportunity with our client.
Overview
This role involves designing and developing components and structures for advanced nuclear reactors, requiring strong technical expertise in equipment design, analysis, and project coordination within the nuclear industry.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and utilize inputs and requirements from engineering and project teams to produce equipment and components design solutions, including drawings, models, and specifications.
- Perform planning for design activities and manage execution to the established plans.
- Propose and develop tests required to validate functional and performance design requirements.
- Perform scoping analysis and trade studies for design options.
- Interface with cross functional team for design and analysis activities.
- Perform engineering reviews of team members’ products.
- Interface with engineers and subcontractors, providing direction and mentoring.
- Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.
Requirements:
- Education: B.S. degree in Mechanical engineering or equivalent preferred.
- Minimum of five years of equipment / component design experience; relevant M.S. and Doctorate degrees may be credited for up to two or four years of experience respectively.
- Experience with 3D CAD, SolidWorks preferred.
- Experience with design of experiments with an emphasis on product testing.
- Experience in finite element stress analysis, mechanical analysis methods, first principles calculations.
- Familiarity in Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA).
- Experience or familiarity with the rules of ASME Boiler Pressure Vessel Code Section III Division 5.
- Design experience in the nuclear industry with core assemblies is highly desirable.
- Experience with nuclear industry operation, DOE and NRC regulations
- Knowledge of neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, and/or structural analysis.
- Ability to lead multidisciplinary design activities
- Experience in finite element stress analysis using ANSYS and first principles calculations.
- Experience with writing test requirements documents and developing nuclear product test campaigns.
- Experience with manufacturing and methodology, especially in first article productions.
- Experience with technical evaluation, review, and nonconformance evaluation of vendors and suppliers.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. Talascend also offers a variety of benefits including: health and disability insurance, 401(k), EAP, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, plan requirements, schedule type, and client work site mandates.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.