The Department of Nuclear Engineering at NC State University is seeking a Research Engineer to support the operation, research, and development activities of the PULSTAR research reactor facility. This role involves ensuring safe reactor operation, developing experimental facilities, conducting complex research, and contributing to documentation and proposals.
Requirements
- Utilization of reactor facility including administration of a service center.
- Providing technical input for generating proposals for academic and corporate users.
- Design and installation of experimental apparatus, and performing testing and generating reports.
- Understand technical operating, service or repair manuals.
- Nuclear reactor analyses, nuclear reactor benchmarks; Experimental nuclear facility design, nuclear data evaluation and validation, and modeling using molecular methods.
- Strong capabilities in using MCNP, Serpent, NJOY, OpenFoam, VASP, and PHONON codes.
- Strong programming skills using languages such as Fortran and Python, and utilities such as MATLAB.
Responsibilities
- Receive comprehensive training to obtain licensure as a Senior Reactor Operator from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
- Participate in the design, installation, testing, operation, and maintenance of reactor plant and experimental facility systems.
- Develop detailed specifications for reactor and experiment system components, including design requirements and operational and maintenance procedures.
- Create and implement laboratory safety and radiation protection procedures and protocols to support reactor research.
- Formulate and execute reactor core and system simulations using high-performance computing (HPC) resources to ensure safe reactor operation.
- Design experimental facilities and conduct complex research utilizing computational resources.
- Perform nuclear system simulations, experimental facility design, and nuclear data generation to support the safe operation of the PULSTAR nuclear research reactor.
Other
- Relevant Ph.D degree in Nuclear Engineering.
- Greater than or equal to 10 years of experience with each of the following activities: Utilization of reactor facility including administration of a service center. Providing technical input for generating proposals for academic and corporate users. Design and installation of experimental apparatus, and performing testing and generating reports.
- Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Familiarity with tenets and implementation of safety and security culture and cyber-security mitigations at a research reactor facility desirable.
- Valid NC Driver's License required.
