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Averro · 4 days ago

Lead Mechanical Engineer, Heat Exchanger Engineer

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$170K/yr - $200K/yr

10+ years exp

Averro is a Veteran-Owned organization seeking a Nuclear Lead Heat Exchanger Engineer who will act as the design lead for heat exchangers and contribute to the design of primary heat transport systems for nuclear reactors. The role involves project oversight, supplier management, and ensuring adherence to design codes while developing technical requirements and managing design activities.

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Responsibilities

Develop and manage technical requirements for the Intermediate Heat Exchanger. This responsibility will include preparing or reviewing design specification and ensuring the correct application of ASME code rules to the design and fabrication of the component

Responsible for project oversight, supplier management and lead design and analysis reviews

Perform technical vendor oversight of intermediate heat exchanger designer

Review and perform owners’ acceptance of intermediate heat exchanger vendor deliverables

Support planning efforts and maintain schedule adherence for design activities within a system, as well as their integration with an overall plant design delivery schedule

Identify and ensure effective application of correct design codes into the design of plant systems such as ASME, ANS, ASTM, IEEE, NFPA, etc

Analyze and allocate regulatory criteria and standards to complex mechanical and process system design

Interface with the design team to create and manage drawing packages of system designs, including but not limited to Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), 3D models, and system interface drawings

Support design reviews as plant system and subsystem designs are established and refined

Develop testing requirements, test specifications, and provide technical oversight for testing

Work with other lead engineers on physical and fluid interface requirements and design

Coordinating with other teams regarding the results of analyses, such as thermal, seismic, structural, pipe stress, heat transfer, and other analyses performed by others and integrate the results into plant design and operational decisions

Establish and maintain system requirements and design basis documents for the primary heat transport system

Generate design package for systems, sub-systems, and equipment designs including coordination of calculations, design reports, mechanical drawings, and engineering design specifications

Qualification

Heat Exchanger DesignASME Code ApplicationProject ManagementHigh-Performance SystemsNuclear Industry ExperienceMechanical Systems DesignQuality Standards Compliance

Required

Degree and 10-15+ years direct experience. Advanced degrees can be accepted in lieu of experience

10 years of heat exchanger experience

Background working with high-performance systems or equipment design

Experience applying ASME Section III Code to the design of tube and shell heat exchangers

Experience with tube-and-shell heat exchanger design and applying TEMA standards, preferably with experience with heat exchangers that provide a portion of a reactor primary coolant pressure boundary

Demonstrated experience in the design of complex mechanical systems, structures and equipment

Experience working to quality standards on design activities, such as ASME NQA-1