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This position is posted at multiple levels. Please see the job description below for more information.
GENERAL SUMMARY
Perform various highly complex Probabilistic Safety (PSA) tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the area of probabilistic analysis, including plant support for utilization of PARAGON for work control risk management, PSA model ownership/upgrade and maintenance, and other related PSA activities. Serve as an advisor to others, and as a mentor for PSA engineers in training.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Perform various highly complex PSA tasks requiring specialized skills and broad experience in the area of probabilistic analysis, including plant support for utilization of PARAGON for work control risk management, PSA model ownership/upgrade and maintenance, risk-informed evaluations in support of NOED submittals, Tech Spec surveillance extensions, and other related PSA activities.
Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues. Available guidance generally does not normally exist to fit problems encountered and advanced technological skills are required to provide solutions. Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers and operators. Serve as a mentor to PSA Engineers(s) in training. Provide training to others.
Identify potential problems or areas for improvement related to PSA activities and/or operations support, and initiate corrective action in accordance with the plant Condition Report (CR) process.
Participate in industry working groups and other discipline related activities.
Engineering employees are expected to be available and to support the following activities as a condition of employment with Energy Northwest:
Emergency Response Organization (ERO) including being on-call (24/7) during your required team duty (2 weeks out of every 8 weeks).
12 hour work shifts during outages as part of our overall Outage support (24/7) including Outage Command Center and Engineering Outage Center
Engineering duty cycle support (24/7) including call-out availability during your responsible duty assignment (typically 1 week timeframe with requirements similar to ERO).
REQURIED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Engineer Principal - PSA
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and eight years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools;
OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination with a high school diploma or GED and eight years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools.
One diverse assignment is required. A diverse assignment is knowledge and experience in an area not related to your core engineering discipline. Significant new job skills or knowledge will have been acquired and successfully demonstrated. New job skills mean a significant change in tasks performed, not just an amplification of existing skills.
Engineer Senior - PSA
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and three years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools in a high consequence industrial work environment;
OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination with a high school diploma or GED and three years of engineering experience, which must include a minimum of two years involving Probabilistic Safety tasks or use of risk management software tools in a high consequence industrial work environment.
Engineer Staff - PSA
Requires a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and at least one year of engineering experience;
OR a PE license obtained by accredited examination and at least one year of engineering experience. A high school diploma or GED is required.
Pay Range:
Engineer Principal - PSA Salary: $122,681 - $184,021
Midpoint: $153,351
Engineer Senior - PSA Salary: $106,670 - $160,006
Midpoint: $133,338
Engineer Staff - PSA Salary: $92,750 - $139,124
Midpoint: $115,937
Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.
Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.
Incentive Compensation
This role is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan. Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.
Benefits
Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance. EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan. Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability.