Mid-to-Senior Process Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Provide practical process engineering support for a cutting-edge nuclear fuel facility.

• Create and verify calculations, revise P&IDs, draft equipment specifications, assess vendor documentation, and assist in process design coordination for nuclear, chemical, DOE, or high-hazard facility systems.

• Collaborate with senior technical leads, designers, vendors, and interdisciplinary teams to advance design deliverables while ensuring safety, quality, technical precision, and configuration management.

• Generate process calculations, hydraulic assessments, equipment sizing, heat and material balances, datasheets, technical evaluations, and supporting design documentation.

• Prepare and refresh PFDs, P&IDs, process design criteria, line lists, equipment lists, and descriptions of process systems.

• Aid in the preparation of equipment specifications and procurement packages for process equipment, piping components, valves, heat exchangers, vessels, pumps, and associated systems.

• Liaise with vendors to examine submittals, address technical comments, assess deviations, and facilitate procurement decisions.

• Engage in design reviews, hazard assessments, operability evaluations, constructability reviews, and commissioning planning.

• Coordinate process interfaces with piping, instrumentation & control, mechanical, HVAC, electrical, safety basis, radiological controls, criticality safety, quality assurance, construction, and operations teams.

• Offer field and startup assistance for issue resolution, walkdowns, test planning, troubleshooting, and turnover activities.

• Maintain engineering documentation, configuration control, calculation integrity, and effective communication with technical leads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.

• Over 5 years of process engineering experience in supporting nuclear, DOE, chemical, high-hazard, fuel cycle, manufacturing, or highly regulated industrial facilities.

• Practical experience with calculations, P&IDs, equipment specifications, datasheets, technical evaluations, and vendor collaboration.

• Capability to interpret process requirements, drawings, specifications, vendor data, design criteria, and on-site conditions.

• Proficiency in hydraulics, equipment sizing, process safety concepts, process controls interfaces, and design practices for regulated facilities.

• Excellent technical writing, analytical, communication, and cross-disciplinary coordination abilities.

• Capacity to obtain and maintain necessary site access, training, and security clearances.

• Due to the requirements of government contracts and/or clearance protocols, US citizenship is mandatory.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with nuclear fuel facilities, uranium processing, chemical processing, hot cells, gloveboxes, GTS, or high-temperature process systems.

• Experience in supporting commissioning, startup, field engineering, or operational readiness.

• Engineer-in-Training certification, Professional Engineer license, or progress toward licensure.

• Active DOE L or Q clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• Retirement Plan (401k)

• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

• Paid Time Off (Vacation & Public Holidays)

• Short Term & Long Term Disability