Manufacturing Engineer - Fuels Component Operation

Job Description Summary

Early career engineer accountable for multiple technical processes and equipment in the production of commercial nuclear components. Part of the technical team responsible for the fuel component operation of tubing, water rods, and channels for nuclear fuel bundles. This engineer will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, maintaining, and enhancing machinery within the shop.
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Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

Include but are not limited to -

• The manufacturing engineer is responsible for equipment and assembly manufacturing processes including process development, monitoring, analysis, issue resolution, and change; in Channels, water rods, and/or tubing,
• Embrace Global Nuclear Fuel's nuclear safety culture, where work is performed with an overriding priority on integrity, safety, and quality.
• Ensure compliance with all safety and quality regulations and metrics through use of compliance calendars, databases and tracking systems.
• Review, design, generate, update, and monitor manufacturing equipment, devices, systems and processes in the fuel fabrication area, including both mechanical and electrical/instrumentation aspects of equipment.
• Develop and/or improve process automation of existing or new manufacturing processes.
• Modernize manufacturing techniques and process monitoring to predict and prevent process upsets and downtime and minimize scrap/waste generation.
• Maintain, review, update and create area operating procedures (OPs), temporary operating instructions (TOI's), job hazards analyses (JHA) and chemical job hazards analyses (CJHA).
• Responsible for supporting planned and unplanned maintenance activities.
• Support New Product Introduction (NPI) initiatives in the fuel component operation, including process development and design of experiments (DOE)'s.
• Identify and implement proactive solutions for incremental and step change process improvements related to safety, quality, and output through use of Lean and Six Sigma tools.
• Assist supervision in training and assessing hourly operators in sound techniques and proper operation of equipment to meet safety, quality, and output targets.
• Other relevant job duties as assigned

• 4 Year Technical Degree in Engineering or equivalent technical discipline from a regionally accredited college/university
• A minimum of 2 years' experience in areas related to manufacturing engineering

• Strong mechanical aptitude and process engineering skills.
• Familiar with basic operation, troubleshooting and application of industrial equipment and processes such as pumps, piping, motors, fans, valves, gears, mixing, heating, cooling, chemical reactions, furnaces, heat exchangers, hoods, vibrators, hydraulics etc.
• Experience with programmable logic controllers (PLC), and/or Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and the associated human/machine interfaces (HMI).
• Experience with creating and supporting process automation systems, process monitoring systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) creation and maintenance.
• Experience with creation and support of automation equipment (steppers, servos, solenoids, cylinders, actuators, relays, etc.)
• Experience with selection, calibration, and application of appropriate process monitoring I/O hardware (Temperature, Flow, Pressure, Level, Concentration, Density, etc.)
• Experience with developing, implementing, and using process historians to monitor operations.
• Experience with equipment installation and facilities modifications, including management of capital and expense projects.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills and success working on cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated work record of meeting goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated use and understanding of a change management process.
• Experience in manufacturing procedure and training development.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and function calmly and effectively in stressful situations.
• Demonstrated high integrity in decisions, communications, actions, and interpersonal relationships.

• Walk up and down stairs multiple times during the day. Occasionally climb ladders.
• Crawling, kneeling, crouching, reaching around manufacturing equipment on a weekly basis.
• Expert using PC and productivity software [examples include MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint]
• Experience with AutoCAD 3D
• Experience programing and troubleshooting CNC Machines
• Must maintain after hours cell phone availability.
• Must be available to work extended hours, off-shifts, and weekends if necessary.
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.