Talascend is currently seeking a Remote Plant System Analysis Engineer for a remote contract opportunity with our client.

Overview

This role involves performing analyses related to sodium-cooled reactor systems, including the development of models, control strategies, and transient analysis to support design and operational safety in nuclear power applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop RELAP5-3D models for steady state and transient hydraulic analyses.
• Develop plant level control strategies and component level controllers.
• Perform calculations using heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics principles to support analysis results.
• Analyze reactor normal operations, upset events, emergency events, and faulted events to establish design and testing limits.
• Perform analysis of plant-wide transients for operational evaluations and design solutions.
• Conduct multiscale and multidisciplinary control analyses involving various thermal fluids.
• Collaborate with engineering groups on component, system, fuel, and control system design and testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in nuclear, mechanical, or electrical engineering.
• Experience with system codes such as RELAP5 or TRACE is required.
• Experience with modeling control systems and I&C is highly desirable.
• Experience with nuclear power plant design or operations is desirable.
• Experience in developing new analytical methods is desirable.
• Strong thermal-hydraulic analytical skills with expertise in one-dimensional hydraulic network analysis, system codes, and transient analysis.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.

Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.