Mechanical Design Engineer

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 a Mechanical Design Engineer for our IB-Services (Stearns Roger Group) at our Mill Ridge Road office in Lynchburg, Virginia. IB-Services (Stearns Roger Group) is a multi-disciplinary engineering group that provides maintenance, upgrade and design support for existing and new equipment at nuclear power facilities throughout the world. Our group specializes in the design and maintenance of fuel handling equipment for both BWR and PWR markets to preserve the financial, safety, and environmental benefits of nuclear power, thus promoting the Framatome vision of providing access to cleaner, safer, and more economical energy to as many people as possible. This is accomplished through the talents of a mechanical, electrical, and software engineering team.

Under direct supervision, the candidate will integrate into a multi-discipline team of engineers including mechanical, electrical, and software engineers. Activities range from development of new designs, software and processes to maintenance of existing systems.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Perform hardware design and development activities for various projects ranging from small to large.
• Identify new applications and opportunities to improve existing processes
• participate in all aspects of the product lifecycle on assigned projects:
• Development of technical requirements and specifications
• Mechanical design and drawing preparation
• Formulation of acceptance criteria
• Writing testing and validation documentation
• Development of user manuals
• Perform acceptance testing in accordance with acceptance criteria
• Overseeing fabrication and construction of equipment
• Overseeing and conducting testing and qualification of equipment
• Support hardware maintenance in the form of improvement implementation and, at times, hands on maintenance
• Support products by on-site presence
• Participate in team environment on medium to large projects.
• Ownership of project budget and scheduling for assigned tasks
• Researches and assesses best practices, proposing methods and improvements
• Performs other related duties and tasks, as required

Travel: Occasional/sporadic. Domestic travel is, at times, required. Foreign travel may, at times, be required.

Required Experience

All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements to be considered for this opportunity:

• BS in Engineering/Engineering Technology plus a minimum of 2 years of engineering experience. In applicable states a PE license will be accepted in lieu of a 4 year engineering degree

The following may be used to differentiate candidates who apply for this position:

• Experience in mechanical design
• Mechanically inclined and understand how machines work and how to design them so they are functional, simple to use and service
• Familiar with inter-disciplinary design combining mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electronics, electrical, software, etc.
• Ability to communicate clearly and precisely in oral, written, and presentation formats
• Some experience in solid modelling software (Solidworks with SmarTeam preferred)
• Other solid modelling experience acceptable (Microstation, Pro-Engineer, Inventor, etc.)
• Welding, machining and fabrication experience a plus; Familiarity is acceptable, but hands-on preferred.
• Candidate should have strong troubleshooting skills and understand mechanical systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, etc.
• Electromechanical or additional courses of study in EE, BSCS, Automation or robotics is a plus
• Experience in nuclear industry, outages, and with nuclear fuel handling equipment

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.