Procurement Engineer I - Nuclear
Support a commercial nuclear generating station by ensuring replacement parts and equipment meet plant design, quality, fit-form-function, and regulatory requirements. This engineer will protect work-control schedules through technical evaluations, commercial-grade dedication, procurement specifications, equipment qualification, and resolution of procurement issues.
The strongest candidate is a procurement or component engineer with direct commercial nuclear experience, a strong grasp of safety-related parts and quality classifications, and the ability to independently evaluate substitutions and digital electrical components.
Location: Richland, Washington
Schedule: Four 10-hour days per week
Work Setting: Onsite preferred; remote candidates may be considered by the hiring manager
Role Type: Contract
Contract Duration: Long-term contract opportunity with the ability to extend over 5-10 years
Openings: 1
Citizenship: U.S. citizenship required
Pay Rate: $50.25-$73.50 per hour, depending on experience level and client approval
Benefits
- Eligible full-time CRG contract employees who work at least 30 hours per week may enroll in the CRG benefits program.
- Coverage begins on the first day of the month following 30 days after the hire date.
- Three Aetna medical plan options are available, including an HSA-compatible option; in-network preventive care is covered in full.
- Voluntary dental and vision coverage.
- Company-paid $25,000 basic life and AD&D coverage for employees enrolled in a CRG medical plan.
- Voluntary life and AD&D, short-term disability, long-term disability, and accident coverage.
- Employee assistance resources and benefit advocacy support.
- Weekly pay, direct deposit, referral bonus opportunities, and ongoing CRG recruiting and account-management support.
- 401(k) eligibility after 12 months as a CRG employee.
- Washington employees earn at least 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked. Over a 2,080-hour work year, that equals 52 hours, or 6.5 eight-hour days; unused balances of 40 hours or less carry over to the next accrual year.
- This is a summary only. Eligibility, coverage, exclusions, limits, waiting periods, payroll deductions, and employee costs are governed by official CRG plan documents and carrier materials.
Responsibilities
- Prepare technical and quality evaluations for replacement equipment, parts, and plant components.
- Verify fit, form, function, design-basis alignment, and availability of spare parts needed to protect the work-control schedule.
- Evaluate equivalent replacements and substitutions, document technical conclusions, and maintain design-basis data.
- Develop commercial-grade dedication plans, critical characteristics, acceptance methods, and supporting technical documentation.
- Prepare procurement specifications and define applicable engineering, quality, testing, inspection, and documentation requirements.
- Perform or support equipment qualification analyses, including evaluations involving digital electrical components.
- Classify equipment and parts in accordance with plant quality and regulatory requirements.
- Resolve technical and quality-affecting procurement problems with engineering, supply chain, maintenance, operations, and quality personnel.
- Identify design, quality, or operational concerns and initiate corrective action through the plant condition-report process.
- Apply codes, standards, regulatory commitments, and station procedures while working with minimal supervision.
- Provide technical direction, mentoring, and training when assignments require senior-level judgment.
- Support audits, inspections, tests, assessments, and engineering problem resolution.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited college or university and at least eight years of engineering experience; or a high school diploma/GED, a PE license obtained by accredited examination, and at least eight years of engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience evaluating replacement parts, alternate items, or equipment for fit, form, function, and design requirements.
- Working knowledge of technical evaluations, procurement specifications, quality requirements, and configuration-controlled engineering records.
- Ability to analyze complex technical issues, document defensible conclusions, and work independently in a regulated environment.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Commercial nuclear procurement engineering, component engineering, or procurement specialist experience.
- Commercial-grade dedication and safety-related procurement experience.
- Equipment qualification, quality classification, receipt inspection, or supplier-quality interface experience.
- Experience evaluating digital electrical or instrumentation-and-controls components.
- Experience with nuclear condition reports, corrective action, audits, and regulatory compliance.
