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Senior Materials Engineer
Nuclear Regulatory Commission · Posted 54 days ago
Hybrid Rockville, MD $169K – $197K Apply by Aug 5, 2026 Materials Engineering ENTJENTPINTJINTP Engineering
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This position is located in Division of Engineering and Risk Analysis. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies within the agency. The supervisor is Meraj Rahimi This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position is subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements.
What You'll Do
- →The successful candidate will perform the full range of duties such as plans, organizes, directs, coordinates, and conducts assigned research associated with chemistry and, in particular, nuclear chemistry aspects of metallurgy, materials behavior, irradiation effects, environmental effects, and/or structural integrity of NRC-licensed facility components.
- →Provides technical assessments of exceptionally complex chemistry related aspects of materials engineering in nuclear power plant systems needed for safe operation and safe shutdown of nuclear facilities subject to the NRC Regulatory programs.
- →Manages and performs studies and analyses of complex technical issues within the Branch's area of review, including chemistry aspects of materials degradation, water chemistry, fuel oil, neutron absorbing material and coatings for nuclear power plants and chemistry related materials issues for spent-fuel storage and transportation systems and components.
- →The purpose of such research is to support the technical bases for NRC licensing decisions.
- →Provides specialized technical assistance and advice to other Divisions and Offices.
- →Such duties include but are not limited to: Provides primary management and technical direction for the assigned research and development program activities related to metallurgy, materials behavior, irradiation effects, environmental effects, fracture mechanics, and structural integrity of the reactor primary system.
- →Bears primary responsibility for the development of technical criteria, regulations, and regulatory guides associated with the materials engineering aspects of the safe design, construction, and operation of light water reactors.
- →Performs technical reviews of national and international codes and standards related to the assigned areas.
- →Maintains a liaison with appropriate organizational components of the NRC in order to keep them informed of plans and programs in the assigned functional areas.
- →Coordinates and leads ACRS, CRGR, and NSRRC presentations related to assiqned functional areas.
- →Develops objectives and plans for programs on metallurgy, materials behavior, irradiation effects, environmental effects, fracture mechanics, and structural integrity of the reactor systems as they relate to safety analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary system performance to be expected during the plant license period.
- →Prepares work schedules, scope of work, milestones, etc.
- →Reviews and evaluates plans and proposals submitted by laboratories for undertaking a research effort under contract.
- →Evaluates the proposal and laboratory, considering past record of performance, capabilities of staff, nature of equipment and facilities, and contract terms.
Requirements
- ✓You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.
- ✓All information in your resume must be true and accurate.
- ✓Conditions of Employment: This is a Drug Testing position Must be able to meet and maintain security & suitability requirements.
- ✓Qualification for 0806 series: Basic Requirements: Degree: Engineering.
- ✓OR Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering.
- ✓The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
- ✓Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration.
- ✓For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- ✓Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
- ✓Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A.
- ✓The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
- ✓Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
- ✓(The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S.
- ✓Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/files/all-professional-engineering-positions-0800.pdf.
Benefits
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