Natrium Instrumentation and Control Human Factors Engineer
Our client is seeking a highly motivated Natrium Instrumentation and Control Human Factors Engineer.This position reports directly to the I&C Programs Manager.In this role, the successful candidate will act as the Lead I&C HF Engineer for Sodium Fast Reactor technologies, including responsibility for the instrument and control system design, prototype development and testing, plant level system integration, and commissioning.
This role integrates Human Factors Engineering (HFE) into the design of Natrium's digital I&C systems and Human-System Interfaces (HSIs), ensuring that operator, maintenance, and support tasks are compatible with human capabilities and limitations and that Natrium meets its Chapter 18 / NUREG-0711 licensing commitments.The I&C HF Engineer will also identify, specify, and integrate custom instrumentation with advanced control systems for Generation IV advanced nuclear reactor technologies.The role will support the I&C System Design Leads with overseeing cross functional design amongst I&C systems.
The I&C HF Engineer will support the I&C Programs Manager with coordination scope, schedule, and technical integration for all I&C systems.They will also support cross functional collaboration with procurement, licensing, safety analysis, and PRA.
The I&C team is responsible for Natrium plant I&C design and oversight of key I&C development. The I&C HF Engineer will work with the plant design oversight teams to support communication, identify and work through roadblocks, and align design details, and project execution strategies. The I&C HF Engineer is a core member of the Natrium HFE Design Team and the I&C Design team.
Tasks:
- Responsible for interfacing and supporting geographically diverse and international design team members to develop supporting design documentation.
- Conduct and oversee task analyses for displays, controls, to develop the strategy for monitoring, control, and protection functions for various plant systems.
- Collaborate and oversee system communication and implementation of HSI Design requirements
- Collaborate with Operations and Engineering for input on HFE tasks analysis and screen development.
- Lead design of I&C systems and sub-system functional requirements through final design.
- Validate the HSI aligns with the simulator, plant operating, abnormal, surveillance, and emergency procedures.
- Interface with a team of internal and external customers, suppliers, partners, licensing, and regulatory authorities on technical issues.
- Provide direction to team members and assist the I&C Programs Manager with oversight of team members and suppliers.
- Develop and review system- and component-level specifications and scopes of work.
- Perform engineering and design evaluations in the application of nuclear codes and standards, licensing requirements, and NRC regulations.
- Analyze and apply regulatory criteria and standards to complex I&C system design.
- Develop and review technical design documents, such as System Requirements Documents, System Design Descriptions, Human Factors Analysis, User Interface Specification (UIS), etc.
- Provide technical direction and oversight of supplier projects, working with the contract administrator to ensure delivery of data and other deliverables to meet client's requirements, as well as coordination and performance of technical reviews of deliverables.
- Develop and maintain UIS and data connection mappings so that instrumented parameters and controlled components are correctly allocated to displays and controls across panels and VDUs, consistent with the Natrium HSI design process.
- Work with PRA/HRA engineers to develop scenarios for Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) that involve digital HSIs and I&C system responses.
- Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.
- Collaborate between I&C engineering, HFE, plant operations/maintenance, and licensing to ensure HFE requirements are properly implemented in vendor I&C designs, documentation and licensing submittals regarding HSI design, function allocation, and HF considerations.
- Contribute to internal design reviews, design change evaluations, and OE reviews where HFE or I&C HSIs are impacted.
- Interface with and support licensing activities associated with Safety Analysis Reports.
- Support design, planning, and execution of HFE V&V and Integrated System Validation (ISV) per the Natrium HFE V&V Execution Plan
Key Qualifications and Skills:
- M.S. or PhD Degree in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering or equivalent or 8+ years' experience in Operations and Controls, Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in I&C engineering for complex processes or nuclear systems, including design of digital control / monitoring systems and HSIs
- At least 3 years' cumulative experience applying HF principles to human-computer interfaces (control room or comparable process control environments), and workplace / workstation / panel design (layout, reach, visibility, maintainability)
- Familiarity with nuclear-relevant HF and I&C standards and guidance, such as: NUREG-0711, NUREG-0700, MIL-STD-1472, IEEE 845, IEEE 1289, IEEE 2411, ANSI/ANS-3.1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, ASME NQA-1
- Candidates must have experience in I&C development, diagnostics, and implementation with a demonstrated ability to design and deliver industrial I&C platforms.
- Collaborate with project partners to complete Human Factors Engineering Deliverables and tasks
- Demonstrated experience working in multi-disciplinary engineering teams and producing high-quality technical documentation (requirements, design descriptions, analysis reports, test plans).
- Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives.
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence.
- Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead a design team's effort with minimal direction.
- Ability to work on multiple simultaneous tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork. Will actively support the client's guiding principles.
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
- Familiarity with working with and/or developing industrial process flow diagrams (PFD) and piping & instrument diagrams (P&ID) desired but not required.
- Experience in the nuclear industry to include nuclear plant emergency operating procedures, abnormal operation procedures, and human factors reviews is highly desirable.
- The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.
Natrium Instrumentation and Control Human Factors Engineer
Our client is seeking a highly motivated Natrium Instrumentation and Control Human Factors Engineer.This position reports directly to the I&C Programs Manager.In this role, the successful candidate will act as the Lead I&C HF Engineer for Sodium Fast Reactor technologies, including responsibility for the instrument and control system design, prototype development and testing, plant level system integration, and commissioning.
This role integrates Human Factors Engineering (HFE) into the design of Natrium's digital I&C systems and Human-System Interfaces (HSIs), ensuring that operator, maintenance, and support tasks are compatible with human capabilities and limitations and that Natrium meets its Chapter 18 / NUREG-0711 licensing commitments.The I&C HF Engineer will also identify, specify, and integrate custom instrumentation with advanced control systems for Generation IV advanced nuclear reactor technologies.The role will support the I&C System Design Leads with overseeing cross functional design amongst I&C systems.
The I&C HF Engineer will support the I&C Programs Manager with coordination scope, schedule, and technical integration for all I&C systems.They will also support cross functional collaboration with procurement, licensing, safety analysis, and PRA.
The I&C team is responsible for Natrium plant I&C design and oversight of key I&C development. The I&C HF Engineer will work with the plant design oversight teams to support communication, identify and work through roadblocks, and align design details, and project execution strategies. The I&C HF Engineer is a core member of the Natrium HFE Design Team and the I&C Design team.
Tasks:
- Responsible for interfacing and supporting geographically diverse and international design team members to develop supporting design documentation.
- Conduct and oversee task analyses for displays, controls, to develop the strategy for monitoring, control, and protection functions for various plant systems.
- Collaborate and oversee system communication and implementation of HSI Design requirements
- Collaborate with Operations and Engineering for input on HFE tasks analysis and screen development.
- Lead design of I&C systems and sub-system functional requirements through final design.
- Validate the HSI aligns with the simulator, plant operating, abnormal, surveillance, and emergency procedures.
- Interface with a team of internal and external customers, suppliers, partners, licensing, and regulatory authorities on technical issues.
- Provide direction to team members and assist the I&C Programs Manager with oversight of team members and suppliers.
- Develop and review system- and component-level specifications and scopes of work.
- Perform engineering and design evaluations in the application of nuclear codes and standards, licensing requirements, and NRC regulations.
- Analyze and apply regulatory criteria and standards to complex I&C system design.
- Develop and review technical design documents, such as System Requirements Documents, System Design Descriptions, Human Factors Analysis, User Interface Specification (UIS), etc.
- Provide technical direction and oversight of supplier projects, working with the contract administrator to ensure delivery of data and other deliverables to meet client's requirements, as well as coordination and performance of technical reviews of deliverables.
- Develop and maintain UIS and data connection mappings so that instrumented parameters and controlled components are correctly allocated to displays and controls across panels and VDUs, consistent with the Natrium HSI design process.
- Work with PRA/HRA engineers to develop scenarios for Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) that involve digital HSIs and I&C system responses.
- Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.
- Collaborate between I&C engineering, HFE, plant operations/maintenance, and licensing to ensure HFE requirements are properly implemented in vendor I&C designs, documentation and licensing submittals regarding HSI design, function allocation, and HF considerations.
- Contribute to internal design reviews, design change evaluations, and OE reviews where HFE or I&C HSIs are impacted.
- Interface with and support licensing activities associated with Safety Analysis Reports.
- Support design, planning, and execution of HFE V&V and Integrated System Validation (ISV) per the Natrium HFE V&V Execution Plan
Key Qualifications and Skills:
- M.S. or PhD Degree in Human Factors, Industrial Engineering or equivalent or 8+ years' experience in Operations and Controls, Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in I&C engineering for complex processes or nuclear systems, including design of digital control / monitoring systems and HSIs
- At least 3 years' cumulative experience applying HF principles to human-computer interfaces (control room or comparable process control environments), and workplace / workstation / panel design (layout, reach, visibility, maintainability)
- Familiarity with nuclear-relevant HF and I&C standards and guidance, such as: NUREG-0711, NUREG-0700, MIL-STD-1472, IEEE 845, IEEE 1289, IEEE 2411, ANSI/ANS-3.1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, ASME NQA-1
- Candidates must have experience in I&C development, diagnostics, and implementation with a demonstrated ability to design and deliver industrial I&C platforms.
- Collaborate with project partners to complete Human Factors Engineering Deliverables and tasks
- Demonstrated experience working in multi-disciplinary engineering teams and producing high-quality technical documentation (requirements, design descriptions, analysis reports, test plans).
- Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives.
- Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
- Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence.
- Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead a design team's effort with minimal direction.
- Ability to work on multiple simultaneous tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork. Will actively support the client's guiding principles.
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
- Familiarity with working with and/or developing industrial process flow diagrams (PFD) and piping & instrument diagrams (P&ID) desired but not required.
- Experience in the nuclear industry to include nuclear plant emergency operating procedures, abnormal operation procedures, and human factors reviews is highly desirable.
- The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.
