Job Description

I&C Engineer

Dominion Energy - Surry, VA

1 year contract

$100 per hour

**Preference for hybrid candidate with part of time physically at Surry

**Flexibility for full remote for the right candidate, but occasional travel will be needed for site walkdowns and stakeholder meetings

PER DIEM (live more than 50 miles from site)

The candidate will fill a position as an I&C Project Engineer for the Surry Digital I&C Program. The Digital I&C project is a 10+ year effort as part of Subsequent License Renewal (SLR) to upgrade safety and non-safety-related analog systems to state-of-the-art digital technology and modernize the main control room. This role works with a cross-functional team of station stakeholders, project leads, and project managers to prepare and evaluate modifications to the plant design.

Responsibilities include:

• Developing and contributing to safety system I&C architecture decision-making, conceptual designs, and scoping refinement
• Reviewing and/or preparing engineering products (e.g., Design / Engineering Change packages, Specifications, Calculations, Technical Evaluations, Hazard Analyses)
• Overseeing contracted engineering work and ensuring consistency and compliance with Dominion Energy and industry standards
• Providing technical support, input, and oversight for Factory and Site Acceptance Testing and Simulations (e.g., reviewing and approving procedures and observing activities)
• Interfacing with the primary equipment supplier and project stakeholders to support technical reviews and input
• Analyzing engineering risk and failure modes and incorporating mitigating strategies in the designs
• Reporting and presenting status to engineering team lead, project managers, and management team on a periodic basis

Top 3 Required Skills:

1. Experience with nuclear power plant design, systems, and components
2. Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills in I&C
3. Specification, technical, engineering writing ability

Strongly Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• 50.59 (screen and evaluation) and nuclear licensing experience, including usage of vendor topical reports
• Standard Design Process qualification for nuclear Engineering Changes desired, but not required
• Engineering specification qualification, including the ability to interpret and apply industry regulations and standards
• Candidates will be expected to have or gain familiarity with Surry’s nuclear power plant design, including the Electrical Distribution System and or the Instrumentation and Control Systems at the station.
• Knowledge of and experience with nuclear protection systems, specifically PWR process protection, reactor trip systems (RTS), and engineered safety feature actuation systems (ESFAS)
• Knowledge of and experience with requirements engineering and management
• Experience with digital industrial systems such as Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and/or Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) systems and associated computers, communications, and networks
• In-depth knowledge of industry advances in control system monitoring, testing and analysis of control equipment, and controls theory
• Knowledge of and experience with power plant controls, steam turbine control systems, combustion turbine control systems, balance of plant control systems
• Knowledge of and experience with electrical and electronics theory

Preferred Years of Experience:

• 6+ years of directly-related instrumentation & controls design engineering experience in a power generating station, nuclear background strongly preferred
• 10+ years of industry experience

Education:

• Possess a 4-year Electrical, Computer, or Systems Engineering Degree or equivalent extensive electrical/I&C/computer/systems engineering field experience
• Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license can be used in lieu of a 4-year degree

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