Senior Engineer (Madrid)

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The Radiation Engineering & Analysis (REA) group at Westinghouse is looking for an experienced nuclear engineer, a physicist with an interest in nuclear applications, or a similarly-credentialled engineer to support its continued growth.

REA has supported the design and analysis of PWRs since the early days of the commercial nuclear power industry.  Its scope has expanded from the Westinghouse fleet to include the Combustion Engineering PWR fleet, the BWR fleet, and several advanced reactor designs such as the Westinghouse AP1000® plant, eVinciTM microreactor, and AP300TM small modular reactor.  Our market is global with customers in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, covering the operating fleet, decommissioning, and new build.  To meet this demand, our staff is also global with engineers in the U.S., Spain, Poland, India, and Germany.

The primary responsibilities and technical areas for this role include:

• Own and lead specific scopes on large commercial nuclear and decommissioning projects
• Neutron transport calculations in and around the reactor vessel
  • Review plant drawings and build transport models
  • Perform fluence, activation, heating rate, and dosimetry calculations
  • Critically analyze results & produce technical documentation
• Radiation source term calculations
  • Post-irradiation compositions using ORIGEN, coolant activity, etc.
• Licensing support for the Decontamination & Decommissioning (D&D) of retiring plants
• Radiation shielding calculations
• Decay heat analysis
• Operating Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) support:
  • Accident evaluation in compliance with Chapter 15 of NUREG-0800, related NRC Regulatory guides and Spanish Licensing requirements.
  • Set-point calculations for liquid and gaseous effluents monitors
• Radiation protection support

We use many state-of-the-art codes that were developed in-house including RAPTOR-M3G, our latest 3D discrete-ordinates tool.  The in-house codes supplement our use of publicly available nuclear codes (e.g. MCNP, DOORS and SCALE) to meet the specific needs of our customers.  Most calculations are performed in the Linux environment.

Occasional travel to industry meetings and/or to customer sites for short field work assignments may be required.  This full-time opportunity is located at the Westinghouse Electric Spain Headquarters based in San Sebastián de los Reyes, near Madrid, Spain.

Minimum Requirements

A successful candidate is required to possess:

• BS or MS in Nuclear Engineering (or similar) required.
• 5+ years applicable experience.
• English-language skills:  B2 (verbal) and C1 (written)
• Spanish-language skills:  B2 (verbal) and C1 (written)

The following characteristics are preferred but not required:

• Experience with Linux, programming, and computational simulation
• Experience with relevant computer codes (MCNP, SCALE, etc.)