Navarro Research and Engineering

Designer

• Assess engineering requirements and translate them into technical blueprints, drawings, layouts, and simulation models using CAD/CAM/CAE software.
• Develop and revise 2D drawings, 3D parametric models, assemblies, and associated documentation from approved engineering inputs.
• Create complete, unambiguous drawings defining geometry, interfaces, materials, finishes, processes, tolerances, inspection requirements, quantities, and assembly relationships.
• Select and apply GD&T features and tolerances in accordance with ASME Y14.5-2009.
• Evaluate tolerance accumulation and fit at part and assembly interfaces.
• Apply sound parametric modeling practices and maintain stable design intent and clean assembly structures.
• Check drawings and models for fit, form, function, completeness, consistency, manufacturability, inspectability, and standards compliance.
• Verify parts lists, item balloons, quantities, references, notes, weld symbols, revisions, and change markings across drawing packages.
• Maintain drawing, model, and reference-file integrity through document control, revision control, configuration management, and records processes.
• Resolve technical comments from engineers, checkers, fabricators, inspectors, and document change reviews.
• Coordinate with engineers and other disciplines to clarify requirements, document assumptions, identify missing inputs, and recommend drawing or modeling solutions.
• Plan assigned work, provide progress updates, and raise scope, resource, or schedule concerns.
• Support backlog reduction and mentor drafting personnel when requested.
• Perform other duties assigned by the BEA Technical Point of Contact.

Drafter

• Plan, lay out, prepare, revise, and check engineering drawings manually and with CAD software across architectural, structural, civil, mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation disciplines.
• Produce accurate technical deliverables using advanced GD&T and sound modeling and drafting practices.
• Prepare complex new drawings and revise existing drawings using 2D line work and 3D modeling in accordance with company procedures and nationally recognized standards.
• Determine drawing elements, dimensions, parts, components, tolerances, and design and process parameters using input from project and design engineers.
• Perform mathematical calculations, including geometric and tolerance stack-up calculations.
• Collaborate with design engineers to specify parts, assemblies, and installation requirements.
• Contribute design modification ideas that improve product quality or facilitate construction and fabrication.
• Provide field documentation and as-built drawing support.
• Maintain proficiency in Creo, AutoCAD, and other organizational modeling software, and adapt to company CAD standards and product data management and product lifecycle management systems.
• Report work progress to project and line management.
• Mentor less experienced drafters and check or red-line drafting work to support accurate, standards-compliant deliverables.
• Perform other duties assigned by the BEA Technical Point of Contact.
• Help reduce the existing drawing backlog and serve as a quality checkpoint for drafting deliverables.

Mechanical Engineer

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers on the design of a novel advanced reactor.
• Perform mechanical system design and evaluation and support assigned project completion and implementation.
• Design and evaluate high-temperature springs, safety-related steel and concrete nuclear structures, shielding systems, and pipe supports in accordance with ASME B31 requirements.
• Document electromechanical device designs, including control rod and control drum drive mechanisms, through controlled models, drawings, specifications, and design descriptions.
• Decompose project objectives into controlled design requirements using systems engineering and digital engineering tools.
• Apply best-practice design methodologies, technologies, and processes and validate designs against established requirements.
• Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements.
• Ensure fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement follow the approved design.
• Ensure designs satisfy technical baseline requirements, codes, and regulations.
• Develop, verify, and maintain configuration management for the technical baseline and assigned systems.
• Maintain consistency across drawings, technical manuals, operating instructions, and emergency operating procedures.
• Develop experiment requirements; perform conceptual and final designs; follow fabrication and inspection; lead experiment assembly; support installation, testing, integrated analyses, reactor operations, and experimentation.
• Perform design, fabrication, and related activities leading to reactor operations and experimentation.
• Perform other duties assigned by the Lead Reactor Project Engineer or Engineering Manager.

Applied Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer

Engineer

• Apply engineering principles to the analysis, modeling, simulation, and design of structural and mechanical systems for a novel advanced nuclear reactor project
• Perform linear and nonlinear, static and dynamic evaluations of stress, force, vibration, material plasticity, and related mechanical behavior
• Compare analysis results with governing codes, standards, orders, and design requirements
• Perform dynamic seismic analysis of structures, systems, and components, including soil-structure interaction and site response analyses
• Support advanced reactor design and safety analysis through calculations, models, design documentation, peer review, and multidisciplinary coordination
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers
• Perform thermomechanical analyses of reactor internals, including high-temperature graphite and other exotic materials
• Apply ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, ASCE 7, and other mechanical and structural codes to analyses
• Develop physics-based mathematical models of mechanical, chemical, or electrical systems
• Support alternatives analyses, equipment selection and sizing, vendor equipment summaries and evaluations, specifications, drawings, supporting analyses and calculations, and engineering design files
• Perform structural mechanics designs and analyses under normal operating conditions, natural phenomena hazards, and accident conditions
• Support safety analysis by simulating postulated accidents and evaluating structural and mechanical consequences
• Document designs and engineering analyses in accordance with approved processes and applicable codes and standards
• Investigate nonlinear response of nuclear facilities and systems to seismic ground motion, including advanced nonlinear site response analyses
• Provide technical leadership, peer review, checking, and consultation to fellow engineers
• Author professional technical reports and presentations
• Contribute to business planning and development, advise management, and serve as a technical spokesperson to customers when assigned
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Reactor Project Engineer

Applied Mechanics Engineer

• Provide applied mechanical engineering support for a novel advanced reactor design project
• Apply engineering principles to mechanical challenges involving the motion and dynamics of heat, gases, air, fluids, and solid materials
• Perform system and component design, evaluation, documentation, testing, configuration management, fabrication oversight, and implementation
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers
• Perform mechanical system design and evaluation and support project completion and implementation activities
• Design reactor vessels in accordance with the ASME BPVC for high-temperature service, including creep and fatigue considerations
• Design high-temperature gaskets, sealing systems, and bolting
• Document electromechanical device designs, including controlled and approved models, drawings, specifications, and design descriptions for control rod or drum drive mechanisms
• Decompose project objectives into defined and controlled design requirements using a systems engineering approach and digital engineering tools
• Apply discipline best practices, design methodologies, technologies, and processes to develop and validate designs
• Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements
• Oversee or ensure fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement activities comply with the approved design
• Ensure designs meet technical baseline requirements and applicable codes and regulations
• Develop, verify, and maintain configuration management for the technical baseline and assigned systems
• Ensure consistent operating characteristics across drawings, technical manuals, operating instructions, and emergency operating procedures
• Coordinate with designers, customers, and analysts to develop experiment requirements, complete designs, follow fabrication and inspection, lead assembly, support installation and testing, and develop integrated analyses demonstrating facility safety bases are met
• Perform design, fabrication, and associated activities supporting reactor operations and experimentation
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Lead Reactor Project Engineer or Engineering Manager

Applied Mechanical Engineer

Technical Project Manager

• Support and manage discrete technical construction scope, ensuring timely completion of all project elements
• Oversee technical requirements and define and manage project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risks
• Support, and at times lead, the project team in planning, tracking, and executing scope from initiation through turnover
• Manage project activities in alignment with Triad’s prime contract, NNSA, and DOE 413.3B requirements
• Organize work into control accounts and corresponding work packages defining tasks necessary to meet programmatic objectives
• Report to the Manager of Projects (MOP)
• Provide day-to-day administrative and operational management of an assigned project/program area
• Develop, implement, and evaluate policies, procedures, and standards related to construction and work execution within a nuclear facility
• Support development and monitoring of program budgets
• Provide technical guidance to project teams, support departments, and matrixed resources

Designer

Drafter

Applied Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer

Applied Mechanics Engineer

Applied Mechanical Engineer

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