US ITER Project Engineer, Port Integration

Oak Ridge | Permanent | www.tiptopjob.com |
Requisition Id12925

Overview:

The United States is a partner nation in ITER, an outstanding international collaboration of scientists and engineers working to design, construct, and assemble a burning plasma experiment that can demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy.
A self:heated burning plasma is a crucial step in fusion energy development. US ITER is a DOE Office of Science project hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. Partner labs are Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL).
ITERs other partners are the Peoples Republic of China, the European Union, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation. Find out more about this exciting project at usiter and iter .

On the perimeter of the Tokamak, facing the plasma, are multiple ports which house diagnostic systems to monitor plasma activity and other key factors for operation. The Port Integration team's responsibility is to design, analyze and integrate multiple diagnostic systems to be housed in each port.
The US responsibility is designated to four of these ports, Equatorial Ports 3 and 9 and Upper Ports 11 and 14.

US ITER is seeking an experienced engineer with a background in design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex structures and integrated systems. A primary function will be communicating regularly with an international team with IO and diagnostic system counterparts.
. This position will contribute to documentation development and review in line with our immediate goals of achieving design approval. This position will support the manufacturing feasibility, procurement fabrication, assembly, and testing phases through delivery to ITER.
It will also work with vendors, engineering personnel within the US ITER project and personnel at the ITER headquarters in France. This role reports to the US ITER Port Integration Team Lead and has this role's authority and approval levels include providing work direction to group members within guidelines established by the US ITER.
You may serve the role of Technical Project Officer (TPO) for specific procurement contracts.

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an extraordinary 80:year history of solving the nation's biggest problems. We have a dedicated and creative staff of over 6,000 people Our vision for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is to cultivate an environment and practices that foster diversity in ideas and in the people across the organization, as well as to ensure ORNL is recognized as a workplace of choice.
These elements are critical for enabling the execution of ORNL's broader mission to accelerate scientific discoveries and their translation into energy, environment, and security solutions for the nation.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

 •  Partner with the Team Lead, Project Engineers, QA, and Procurement within US ITER to develop technical specifications, statements of work and drawing packages detailing the requirements for Port Integration to establish external standards for suppliers and vendors.
 •  Develop and evaluate plans and criteria with peer Project Engineers for projects and activities to be carried out.
 •  Coordinate and implement collaborative team meetings with domestic and foreign diagnostic counterparts to report status and develop actions to push joint progress.
 •  Perform technical review of final design documents and drawings including Process Flow Diagrams, Process and Instrumentation Diagrams, Technical Specifications, analysis, and calculations.
 •  Prepare and give presentations for meetings of technical scope and progress.
 •  Determine applicability and appropriateness of requirements and internal controls.
 •  Work with Team Lead to schedule and assign work to meet completion deadlines on assigned projects.
 •  Prepare documentation (in
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