Job Description
Interested in making an impact on clean energy initiatives? Grow your career at Framatome!
Framatome is a major global leader in the nuclear energy market recognized for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the international nuclear fleet. Offering a full range of reactor services requires an unparalleled passion and sense of purpose connected to our company’s mission and vision.
Essential to Framatome’s mission are our employees who provide a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experience that support us in providing competitive, reliable, and safe nuclear power plants. Our commitment to our employees is recognized through our competitive total rewards package. Enjoy competitive compensation, generous benefits and take part in innovative projects and development opportunities.
Framatome is seeking an Early Career Mechanical Engineer for our Mount Athos Road office in Lynchburg, Virginia. The Fuel Field Services team includes Design and Project Engineers supporting fuel related products and services at the Mount Athos Road (MAR) facility as part of Fuel America. The individual in this position will be responsible for specification, design, testing and qualification of fuel inspection related equipment tools and products. The position includes troubleshooting, diagnosis, modification and support of maintenance programs. Also will assume responsibility for a tooling group to support assigned field product function (such as post irradiation inspection services, fuel reconstitution and repair, sipping, etc.) as well as machine shop interface for tool/component production. The individual will also contribute to a variety of other emergent projects and support onsite fuel inspection and repair deployments as required.
The mission of Fuel Field Services is performing field services (inspection, reconstitution and repair) of fuel assemblies and core components (control rod assemblies, fuel channels) at reactor sites under contract for fuel and fuel related product supply executing research and development programs, experience feedback on product performance and warranty service. Additional services and products are provided to non-fuel supply customers and nuclear institutions for joint industry development programs as part of commercial sales.
Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of tooling/equipment design, including conceptual development, R&D of First Of A Kind principles, formal design using CAD software packages, detailed drawings, tolerance studies, design reviews, qualification, and implementation/startup of tooling/equipment
- Working with Fuel Field Service Operations throughout the process including hands-on tooling assembly, training and training manual development
- Will report directly to the Supervisor, Field Service Engineering.
- Overtime will be required during peak workloads, with anticipated sporadic travel 10-25% of time to conduct physical work in commercial nuclear facilities and power plants worldwide.
Travel: Up to 25%
Required Experience
All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for this opportunity:
- BS in Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Technology plus 0 -2 years of engineering experience. In applicable states a PE license will be accepted in lieu of a 4 year engineering degree
- Please attach a copy of your unofficial academic transcript as part of your application. Transcripts can be added in the Profile Attachments section (Step 5) of the online application.
- Strong technical problem-solving abilities
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent technical writing and verbal communication skills
The following may be used to differentiate candidates who apply for this position:
- Previous internship/co-op experience in field of study
- Strong desire for the applicant to have the ability to design specialized remote or field service tooling
- Able to prepare cost and schedule input, and monitor both throughout the design effort
- Ability to identify problems/risks in the design and fabrication processes, resolve, and report to management
- Medically and physically qualified to work in a radiological contaminated area at commercial nuclear facilities and power plants worldwide
- Able to gain unescorted access at commercial nuclear power plants (subject to background investigation)
- Electro-Mechanical background
- Strong background in CAD using a solids modeling platform. The department uses Pro-E/Creo, but will train an individual that is already experienced in other solid modeling packages such as Solid Works or Mechanical Desktop.
- Demonstrated the ability to produce shop-ready drawings, and work with machine shops to bring designs to implementation.
- Experience in a production environment related to specialized tooling design is desired.
- Strong interpersonal skills, as well as strong written and verbal communications.
- Able to use standard Microsoft Office products.
Our total rewards package
The range of base salary for the position is between $61,000 – $79,000, and may also include annual incentives, performance bonuses and benefits. Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
Framatome offers a broad employee benefits portfolio as a key component of your total rewards. This includes:
Multiple medical plans; dental and vision plans; Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment; long- and short-term disability; optional plans including dependent life, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance; retirement savings plans (401k) with employer match; paid time off including up to 3 weeks of vacation, 8 days of sick leave, and 11 paid holidays; education reimbursement; adoption assistance; employee assistance programs; opportunities for professional development.
This opportunity is in Lynchburg, Virginia
After work you will enjoy all that Central Virginia has to offer. From beautiful Smith Mountain Lake to the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains you can hike, mountain bike, snowboard and water ski to your hearts content. You’ll avoid the traffic hassles of a major city, while being in driving distance to many of the major cities, beaches and attractions along the mid-Atlantic coast. Take in a minor league baseball game or one of the many festivals in the region. Our Young Generation Nuclear group hosts numerous social and professional development events that will allow you to quickly build relationships and advance your career.
Discover Lynchburg, Virginia: https://www.opportunitylynchburg.com/
Framatome is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.