Research Nuclear Materials Scientist

17 hours ago


West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States Naval Nuclear Laboratory Full time
About the Position
We are seeking a skilled Chemical Engineer to join our team at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory. As a key member of our Materials Manufacturing area within the Fuel and Poison Materials (FPM) unit, you will be responsible for researching and testing nuclear fuel materials, including test design, specimen fabrication, manufacturing development, and characterization.

Key drivers of this role include delivering fuel systems that enable increasing core performance objectives with improved quality and reduced cost. FPM manages several development contracts with external vendors to execute this mission.

This position is targeted at engineers interested in the research, development, and deployment of equipment and facilities for the research production of novel nuclear materials, components, and systems. Experience in as many of the following areas as possible is desired:
- Materials science
- Control systems and chemical engineering
- Data analytics, statistical design of experiments, machine learning
- Demonstrated software programming skills in Lab VIEW and Python environments
- Experience in the core material and core manufacturing technical areas
- Core material vendor contract and production oversight.

Responsibilities
  • Working within a team of engineering, laboratory, facility, and compliance organizations to enable and conduct test programs.
  • Development and fabrication of unique materials systems up to and including small scale production demonstration and factory installation, testing and deployment.
  • Development and implementation of optimized process parameters up to and including small scale production demonstration and factory testing and deployment.
  • Planning, designing, modeling / analyzing, manufacturing, and deploying laboratory equipment which include nuclear, chemical, mechanical, structural, and electrical components and systems.
  • Documenting progress, analyzing results, and conducting presentations as needed.
  • Occasional travel to domestic vendors (3 to 6 times per year).
Requirements
A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in engineering or science related field and 6 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree from an accredited college or university in engineering or science related field and 4 years of relevant experience; or PhD degree from an accredited college or university in engineering or science related field and 1 years of relevant experience or Currently or previously Shift Supervisor Part I qualified; or EDO qualified and 2 years EOOW qualified in the Nuclear Operations Program; or 3 years SRE qualified and Water Instructor and Refueling Facility Area Refueling Engineer and Fuel and Barrier Shift Supervisor (ECF only); or SRE qualified and 6 years of experience.

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