Safety Analysis Engineer

  • Burr Ridge
  • Westinghouse Electric Company

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Safety Analysis Engineer.

Your Day-to-Day:

* As an entry level engineer, you will perform and support state-of-the-art calculations and validation experiments as required under the mentorship of your manager or more senior engineers with a focus on maintaining and improving safety within the nuclear industry. Other duties and responsibilities listed below and may be assigned on an as-needed basis by your manager.
* Perform engineering calculations related to nuclear safety, fluid flow, probability risk assessment, severe accident analysis, equipment qualification, heat and mass transfer, and other duties as assigned by manager
* Prepare appropriate documentation supporting evaluations and analyses
* Verify routine design evaluations and analyses performed by others, as qualified.
* Interface on a limited basis with customers, vendors, and other internal functional groups on engineering level to obtain information necessary to perform work assignments
* Develop skills necessary to assume more independent assignments and support the business strategic initiatives
* Identify and recommend improvements in processes on continuing basis and assist in implementation as well as identify and assist in the development of new business opportunities.
* Plan and schedule own work to meet assignment requirements within schedule and budgetary requirements

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical, Physics)

* Prior Nuclear Industry experience preferred.

* Prior Westinghouse Internship experience preferred.
* 0 - 2 year of experiece. New Grads encouraged to apply.
* Coding in one or more of the following: MathCAD, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, dispersion modelling, severe accident modeling and analysis, thermal-hydraulics modeling and analysis (i.e., RELAP, MAAP, MELCOR), facility hazard modeling and analysis, equipment qualification, and/or laboratory experience with custom experiments

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

  • Safety and Quality
  • Integrity and Trust
  • Customer Focus and Innovation
  • Speed and Passion to Win
  • Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
  • Paid Vacations and Holidays
  • Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Educational Reimbursement Program
  • Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting

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