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About AMEC NSS
AMEC NSS is a rapidly growing engineering and nuclear safety analysis company. We provide specialized services primarily to the power generation industry. Headquartered in downtown Toronto, AMEC NSS has a staff of 450, and we provide technical solutions to more than 50 client’s world wide. We are a member of the AMEC global family, which is a leading supplier of high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services to the world’s energy, power and process industries with a staff of 23,000 in 30 countries
Engineer/Analyst
Risk Management Directorate
Technical Support Services Division
You will be a member of the Risk Management Directorate of the Technical Support Services group which provides (deterministic) safety analysis, Probabilistic Safety Assessments (PSA), licensing, and engineering support to operating nuclear plants, plants undergoing refurbishment, and new build projects.
These opportunities exist for individuals interested in furthering their career in the area of Probabilistic Safety Assessments (PSA), severe accident analysis, reliability analysis, risk-informed decision making, risk analysis and operational PSA support. An urgent need exists for individuals with specific expertise or interest in Level 2 aspects of PSA including: severe accident progression modeling, severe accident phenomena, containment analysis, severe accident source term analysis and risk integration. Experience or interest in severe accident analysis codes especially MAAP-CANDU is highly desirable
Successful candidates will become members of highly qualified project teams working in a challenging and rewarding work environment.
Our Requirements:
To deliver/assist in delivering risk-informed engineering expertise to power generation utilities and other customers. Successful candidates would be expected to be capable of performing some of the following specific accountabilities in the positions available:
- Participate in teams responsible for developing and maintaining integrated probabilistic safety assessments and reliability assessments for nuclear plants and other hazardous technologies or facilities.
- Perform risk and reliability analysis to evaluate the design and performance in terms of nuclear safety adequacy of complex systems under both normal operating and abnormal operating conditions (including accident conditions).
- Develop and use integrated Risk Monitors for evaluation of instantaneous risk for at-power and outage operating configurations, and assist in operational decision-making on nuclear safety and licensing issues.
- Provide risk assessment support to nuclear safety design and operation initiatives such as planned plant outages, design modifications, benefit-cost analysis, condition assessments, periodic safety reviews, Environmental Qualification (EQ), Safe Operating Envelope (SOE), fire protection, compliance with Regulatory Standards for NPP Reliability Programs, and licensing.
- Application of PSA techniques to improve station operation, such as optimization of planned outage frequency and duration, or testing and maintenance programs for safety related systems.
- Provide expert advice on station application of risk methods such as risk ranking exercises, e.g., systems importance analysis for development of a list of systems important to safety.
- Participate in the development and application of risk-based tools to support efficient and safe plant operation.
- Conduct accident analysis and contribute to the development of risk mitigation and prevention measures, emergency response plans and procedures.
- Interface with senior staff client contacts and other technical experts.
- Interface with the regulator on behalf of our clients.
- Contribute risk management expertise to help solve problems across a wide range of subject areas within AMEC NSS.
Successful candidates will have:
- A good understanding of CANDU or PWR nuclear power plant design, operation and regulatory requirements,
- Excellent project management skills and knowledge of quality assurance programs,
- Good written and oral communication skills,
- The ability to develop and maintain relationships with customers,
- A Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Science, Physics, Chemistry or Applied Mathematics,
- Candidates for engineering positions are expected to have or pursue attainment of the P.Eng. designation,
- Demonstrated capability in the areas of risk and reliability analysis or a related discipline,
- Experience in applying hazard analysis techniques such as HAZOP or FMEA to complex engineering systems,
- Experience in the use or development of modern PSA computer codes or methods including fault tree analysis and event tree analysis,
- Experience in Level 1 and 2 PSAs.
AMEC NSS offers a competitive and comprehensive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience. Candidates with exceptional experience will be considered for higher level positions.
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