Principal Engineer

1 week ago


Burr Ridge, United States Westinghouse Electric Company Full time

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, Westinghouse Fauske & Associates, Inc. (FAI) has an exciting opportunity for aPrincipal Engineer. Fauske & Associates, Inc. (FAI) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, and is now a Division of Stone & Webster, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC.

This position is hybrid in nature at the manager's discretion requiring 2-3 days/week on-site in Burr Ridge, IL located 40-minutes from downtown Chicago. We can entertain all candidates authorized to work without sponsorship now and in the future as we are unable to sponsor Visa's for this opportunity.

Your Day-to-Day:

The Principal Engineer will lead/ mentor others for state-of-the-art calculations and support validation experiments to maintain and improve safety performing engineering calculations/assessments for nuclear safety including nuclear power plants, waste treatment and severe accident modeling like thermal-hydraulics modeling and analysis, heat & mass transfer radiological source term.

  • Lead software development and implement mathematical models into a C++ code base, Fortran, and Python
  • Prepare documentation for evaluations
  • Verify first of a kind evaluations
  • Meet assignment requirements within schedule and budget
  • Plan independent assignments and support business strategic initiatives

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

  • BS Engineering (Chemical, Nuclear or Mechanical)

Minimum 5 years:

  • Modular Accident Analysis Program (MAAP)
  • C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, MathCAD, and/or Python
  • Source control
  • General mathematical and modeling skills
    • Technical writing
    • Thermodynamics
    • Transport phenomena (momentum, heat, and mass)
    • Kinetics
    • Multi-phase flow modeling
    • Probability Risk Assent (PRA)


Nice-to-Have:

  • PE Certification
  • 10-15 years

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

  • Safety and Quality
  • Integrity and Trust
  • Customer Focus and Innovation
  • Speed and Passion to Win
  • Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
  • Paid Vacations and Holidays
  • Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Educational Reimbursement Program
  • Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability

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