Nuclear Electrical Design Engineer

The ocean is the largest undeveloped frontier on earth and the next chapter of abundant energy will be written at sea. Were building the infrastructure to power it.

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing licensing and assembling a standardized nuclear electric power plant and the surrounding support systems for maritime applications. We will install these plants on any vessel built to our nuclear-ready standards and will provide end-to-end sustainment in our planned nuclear lifecycle dockyard. We will help develop the licensed operators to unlock this new capability for your energy intensive application at sea. To move fast and to lead the creation of this new market we are leveraging the compact proven systems enabled by water-cooled reactors.

Scale nuclear energy. Power generations.

A maritime commons thriving with abundant economical modern and safe nuclear-powered activity built serviced and staffed by re-industrialized American shipyards and people.

Role Summary

Electrical System Design

• Develop the electrical power system design for the nuclear plant from functional requirements through detailed one-line diagrams schematics elementary and connection diagrams cable schedules and equipment specifications.

• Establish and document the design basis for each system and load including voltage and frequency load classification safety class and division assignment design life duty cycle and applicable codes and standards.

• Design safety-related and non-safety-related distribution: switchgear load centers motor control centers vital AC and DC systems batteries chargers inverters and their protection.

• Specify power supplies to reactor plant loads including control rod drive mechanisms coolant pumps motor-operated valves heat tracing and instrument and control power and define the isolation between safety-related and non-safety-related circuits.

• Perform protective device coordination and selectivity and specify protection and control schemes consistent with the plants safety and availability requirements.

• Produce design specifications design reports and the supporting calculation packages that flow to suppliers and to the certifying authority.

• Lead design reviews at concept preliminary critical and final design stages. Drive resolution of action items and design changes through formal configuration control.

Vessel Integration

• Define the boundary and interface between the nuclear plant electrical system and the vessels generation and distribution including which loads are served from which source under each operating and casualty condition.

• Define equipment arrangement mounting and access requirements within the constraints of the vessel hull deck structure and surrounding plant systems.

• Design equipment mounts restraints and cable support to transfer loads into the ships primary structure without compromising either the equipment or the hull.

• Route cable and define penetration treatment across watertight fire and shielding boundaries while preserving divisional separation and boundary integrity.

• Coordinate with naval architecture and structural engineering on deck accelerations at equipment locations weight and center-of-gravity impact and the load path from equipment to hull.

• Resolve interface issues with adjacent disciplines: mechanical piping instrumentation and control HVAC shielding and maintenance access.

• Support outfitting sequence planning so that equipment can be installed terminated tested and commissioned within the shipyard build strategy.

Required

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering Technology or a closely related discipline.

• 10 years of electrical power system design experience on nuclear marine utility or other code-governed power systems with at least 5 years on nuclear systems.

• Demonstrated working knowledge of safety-related (Class 1E) electrical design requirements including redundancy divisional independence single-failure criterion and separation.

• Strong proficiency with power system analysis software (ETAP SKM EasyPower or equivalent) including load flow short-circuit protective device coordination and motor-starting analysis.

• Direct experience producing design reports calculation packages or equivalent code-compliant analyses that have been reviewed by a third party or regulator.

• Experience sizing and specifying DC systems and uninterruptible power: station batteries chargers inverters and vital AC and DC distribution.

• Working knowledge of cable and raceway design: ampacity and derating voltage drop raceway fill separation and segregation and penetration treatment.

• Working knowledge of equipment qualification principles environmental seismic and shock and vibration and of how qualification evidence is assembled and defended.

Preferred

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.

• Professional Engineer (PE) license.

• Experience applying the IEEE nuclear standards set and the corresponding NRC Regulatory Guides.

• Experience with an environmental qualification program under 10 CFR 50.49 including qualified life determination and maintenance of the EQ file.

• Experience supporting a regulatory licensing submittal or a classification society design appraisal.

• Experience with classification society electrical rules (ABS DNV Lloyds Register) and with IEC 60092 shipboard electrical installation requirements.

• Experience in shipbuilding offshore or naval applications including main and emergency switchboard design generator paralleling power management systems blackout recovery and dead-ship start and shore power connection.

• Experience with medium-voltage distribution integrated electric propulsion variable frequency drives and harmonic analysis and mitigation.

• Experience with loss-of-offsite-power and station blackout coping analysis emergency generator sizing and loading and load shedding and sequencing schemes.

• Experience with grounding and ground-fault detection philosophy for both solidly grounded and isolated (IT) distribution systems.

• Experience with arc flash and incident energy analysis and with electrical safety program requirements.

• Familiarity with NQA-1 quality assurance program requirements.

Dont meet every bullet Wed still like to hear from you. If youre excited by the mission and most of this resonates apply.

Export control notice

This role involves access to information subject to U.S. export control laws including unclassified nuclear technology governed by the U.S. Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. Depending on a candidates status access may require DOE authorization which Ocean Atomics may apply for. Any offer is contingent on your ability to work in compliance with these requirements. We evaluate all applicants regardless of citizenship or national origin except where required by law.

Every industry on Earth needs scalable clean energy and the ocean is the ideal place to unlock it. Joining Ocean Atomics means building real lasting infrastructure the kind that powers generations. The world needs abundant energy. Lets make it happen.

We are committed to a workplace free of discrimination and do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations; if you need an accommodation during the application process contact

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