Electrical & Controls Engineer - Vogtle 1&2
About this role
Electrical or Controls Engineer supporting systems reliability and engineering design at Vogtle 1&2 (two Westinghouse PWRs). You will ensure long-term plant system performance through monitoring, analysis, maintenance strategies, and design modifications; perform root cause analyses; and lead improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- —Ensure long-term system health through monitoring, analysis, and maintenance strategies
- —Perform root cause and causal analysis for equipment or system failures
- —Develop and implement corrective actions and improvements to prevent recurrence
- —Develop and implement design changes and plant modifications
- —Prepare engineering calculations, specifications, and design change packages
- —Interpret and develop engineering drawings, schematics, and technical documentation
- —Support design reviews and configuration control
- —Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards in all designs
- —Lead or support system ownership and performance trending
- —Participate in equipment upgrades, modernization, and troubleshooting
- —Support refueling outage assignments and special plant projects
- —Collaborate across teams for implementation of improvements
Qualifications
- —B.S. or higher degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited program OR Professional Engineer (PE) license
- —Background in Electrical or Controls Engineering with working knowledge of applicable discipline codes and standards
- —Ability to learn systems to the component level
- —Ability to support or lead design modifications, including equipment upgrades and system improvements
- —Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make sound engineering decisions
- —Ability to clearly and effectively communicate issues, design concepts, and proposed solutions
- —Must meet background screening and NRC Fitness for Duty requirements
Desired
- —2 or more years of engineering experience (nuclear or energy-related experience is helpful)
- —Experience in digital and/or analog controls (e.g., integrated plant computer systems, circuit boards, transmitters, analog or digital controllers)
- —Experience or familiarity with engineering design processes
- —Behavioral attributes: accepts ownership, develops reliability strategies, works well in teams, resolves conflicts effectively, values diversity
Location
Onsite at Vogtle 1&2 near Waynesboro, GA; periodic on-call duty (~5 weeks/year); infrequent overnight travel
Job details
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About the company
Southern Nuclear →Operator of Southern Company's nuclear fleet, including Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 — the first newly constructed reactors in the U.S. in over three decades — plus Hatch and Farley.
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