Natrium, Construction Coordinator (Electrical)

• Relocation Authorized: None
• Telework Type: Full-Time Telework
• Work Location: Reston, VA
• Salary Range: $105,060 - $160,220 annually (Determined by function, education, experience, and qualifications of the applicant.)

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier, and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining, or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity!

Job Summary:

In this role, you will provide project field engineering specialization and expertise with work planning and packaging, material management, quantity verification and validation, safety and quality control, technical inspection and testing knowledge, and subcontract coordination. Your recommendations will ensure field engineering activities operate safely, are complete, and conform to quality standards and project requirements. Ensures that construction requirements are made known to the project team in a timely manner and obtains construction responses to the needs of other members of the project team. Early participation in the design development process by providing constructability input, with a focus on improving construction safety and quality, while seeking to optimize cost and schedule. This is a Short-Term Assignment full time remote, the position will later transition to a full time in-project position in Kemmerer, WY.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develop constructability concepts and provide guidance to the design effort during the early phases of the project.
• Participate in constructability reviews during the design process.
• Collaborate with the development of construction procedures, plans, and strategy documents.
• Work with the design teams to ensure requirements are incorporated into the design, layout, and specifications.
• Participate in design development and suggest/implement economical construction details to be incorporated into design drawings and specifications, utilizing lessons learnt from other projects and construction best practices.
• Monitor and track engineering action items critical to support construction activities.
• Monitor the completeness of engineering and procurement deliverables to support the construction schedule.
• Support establishment of logistics strategy with design and procurement teams.
• Support engineering and procurement schedule development.
• Support Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (required onsite date) schedule optimization.
• Represent construction in engineering and procurement schedule review meetings.
• Utilize the plant design model to identify construction sequencing.
• Drive consistency of engineering data to ensure compatibility with construction automation tools.
• Participate in office and field meetings with project team members and client personnel, as required, e.g., project review meetings.
• Identify potential problem areas or trends and work on total installed cost and continuous improvement issues.
• Maintain communication with the field organization and office project team members regarding significant problem areas and potential solutions.
• Perform and coordinate the construction review of engineering drawings and specifications.
• Coordinate the construction review of vendor drawings, shop fabrication details, and erection procedures, on behalf of construction.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Required bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience​.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of Nuclear Power Construction preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of a specific construction engineering discipline gained through a combination of related education and construction experience.
• Broad-based knowledge of the function and interrelationships of field construction entities and operations.
• Knowledge of Bechtel Construction Nuclear Work Process Procedures.
• Understands and applies the requirements of the Project Environmental, Safety & Health handbook and the Bechtel Core Processes to area of responsibility.
• Knowledge of the impact and effect of using field automation tools.
• Knowledge of environmental compliance laws and requirements.
• Knowledge of government compliance standards.
• Knowledge of Bechtel’s Zero Accident Safety Philosophy.
• Detailed knowledge of the National Electrical Code and NFPA 70E Codes.
• Understanding of electrical single line diagrams, electrical block diagrams, electrical wiring diagrams, electrical panel schedules, raceway/cable tray plan drawings, and electrical support drawings (engineered specific and generic “cookbook”).

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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