Description :
Business Unit: GE Infrastructure, Energy
Function: Engineering/Technology
Location: Wilmington, NC
Job #: 840459
Posted: Sep 19, 2008 Responsibilities
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In this position the Engineer will help develop and maintain Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRA) for General Electric designed boiling water reactors. He or she will make use of the PRA results to assist in the detailed design of new reactors and to create programs (such as the Maintenance Rule and Reliability Availability and Maintainability) for the new reactors.
Maintain and modify ESBWR PRA system models.
Interface with design engineers to ensure that the as-designed plant is consistent with the risk analysis assumptions.
Define and perform sensitivity and uncertainty analyses; and to identify critical components.
Independently apply risk insights to the new power plant design, technical specifications, and operational programs.
Develop and analyze reliability functional requirements for purchase specifications.
Determine plant-level availability goals and system-level availability allocations.
Develop component reliability tasks and schedules.
Qualifications
B.S. degree in an engineering discipline.
Minimum of 10 years of experience in BWR (or PWR) PRA.
Minimum of 1 year of experience in BWR (or PWR) system analysis including design and licensing bases.
Desired
Knowledge of ANS and ASME PRA Standards and R.G 1.200 requirements.
M.S. degree or PhD in engineering discipline related to thermal-hydraulics.
Maintenance Rule Program experience.
Equipment reliability experience.
Experience with MAAP 4 or MELCOR.
Perform Human Reliability Analyses.
Experience in performing fire PRA.
Experience in performing seismic PRA.
Decisive: is able to make decisions with speed and accuracy based on the best available information.
Communicates in an open, candid, and consistent manner.
Seeks simple solutions to complex problems; consistently gets tasks accomplished with available resources.
General
BWR Program is committed to incorporating the latest ASME and ANS standards into the design PRA for ESBWR.
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