Nuclear Certification and Licensability Engineer

Nuclear Certification and Licensability Engineer

About the Position

We are looking for a Nuclear Certification and Licensability Engineer to participate in the development, certification, and licensing processes of PWR-based SMR and nuclear energy technologies.

This position will be responsible for establishing the relationship between nuclear legislation, regulatory requirements, design criteria, safety analyses, and project documentation.

The primary objective of the position is not merely to prepare documents, but to support ensuring that the developed nuclear design is traceable, verifiable, auditable, and licensable in terms of applicable legislation and standards.

Key Responsibilities

1. Monitoring Legislation and Regulatory Requirements

  • Track legislation and guides of the NDK, IAEA, NRC, and relevant national/international regulatory bodies.
  • Review relevant laws, regulations, regulatory guides, standards, NUREG, RG, IAEA Safety Guides, and technical documents.
  • Identify regulatory changes and assess their impacts on the project.
  • Determine applicable regulatory requirements for the project.
  • Flow down regulatory requirements to the system, equipment, design, and documentation levels.
  • Establish traceability between regulatory requirements and project requirements.

2. Licensability Assessments

  • Support the evaluation of the PWR/SMR design from a licensing perspective.
  • Examine the licensing impacts of design decisions.
  • Evaluate the licensing impact of design modifications.
  • Identify critical technical issues concerning licensing.
  • Contribute to the establishment of the "Licensing Basis".
  • Monitor compliance between design requirements and licensing requirements.
  • Track open licensing issues, assumptions, and technical decisions.
  • Contribute to the identification and mitigation of licensing risks.

3. PSAR / FSAR and Licensing Documentation

  • Provide technical contributions to the preparation of PSAR and FSAR documentation.
  • Coordinate the preparation of relevant sections of licensing application documents.
  • Ensure the collection of required technical inputs from design teams.
  • Verify consistency among system designs, safety analyses, and licensing documents.
  • Track sources and bases of technical information used in licensing documents.
  • Support the preparation of technical responses to regulator inquiries.
  • Track regulatory commitments, action items, and review comments.

4. Alignment of Requirements with the Project

  • Establish the Regulatory Requirement → Project Requirement → System Requirement → Design Document → Verification Evidence chain.
  • Identify which system, equipment, or document satisfies specific requirements.
  • Create and maintain Compliance Matrices / Requirement Traceability Matrices.
  • Ensure the tracking of evidence regarding the fulfillment of requirements.
  • Detect missing, conflicting, or unfulfilled requirements.
  • Ensure traceability of requirements throughout the design lifecycle.

5. Technical Coordination with Design Teams

  • Collaborate with nuclear systems, mechanical, electrical, I&C, safety analysis, PSA/PRA, fuel, materials, and other engineering teams.
  • Review the alignment of design outputs with regulatory requirements.
  • Contribute to the licensing-focused review of P&IDs, system descriptions, design criteria, and calculation reports.
  • Support tracking of system safety classifications and related design requirements.
  • Evaluate the impacts of design changes on the licensing basis.

6. Management of Standards and Codes

  • Contribute to evaluating the applicability of the following and similar standards within the project scope:
  • ASME NQA-1
  • ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code
  • ASME/ANS RA-S
  • IEC standards
  • ISO 9001
  • ISO 19443
  • IAEA Safety Standards
  • NRC Regulatory Guides
  • NUREG documents
  • NDK legislation and regulatory documents
  • Other national and international standards designated by the project.

7. Certification and Compliance Management

  • Support Design Verification and Design Validation processes from a documentation standpoint.
  • Prepare Compliance Matrices and Conformance Matrices.
  • Track whether design outputs meet applicable standard and legislative requirements.
  • Ensure test, analysis, calculation, verification, and validation records are linked to relevant requirements.
  • Check the integrity of technical evidence required for certification.

8. Regulatory Tracking and Digital Systems

  • Contribute to the development of the nuclear legislation tracking system.
  • Support the creation of data structures for tracking NDK, IAEA, NRC/ADAMS, and other sources.
  • Contribute to processes for automatically or semi-automatically detecting regulatory changes.
  • Ensure the mapping of legislative clauses to project requirements.
  • Provide technical contributions to the development of AI-supported legislation analysis and classification systems.
  • Contribute to the establishment of a Regulatory Requirement Database.
  • Support workflows aimed at performing impact analyses of changes.

Qualifications Sought

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Nuclear Energy, Energy Systems, Electrical-Electronics, Control and Automation, Chemical, Materials, or related engineering departments.
  • Preferably a Master’s degree in nuclear energy, nuclear safety, nuclear engineering, energy systems, or related fields.
  • Knowledgeable in nuclear legislation and licensing processes.
  • Knowledgeable in PWR or SMR technologies.
  • Knowledgeable in PSAR / FSAR structures.
  • Fundamental knowledge of nuclear safety and design requirements.
  • Experience working with ASME, IAEA, NRC, and/or NDK documents is a plus.
  • Proficiency in English at a level to read and analyze technical documents.
  • Competent in preparing technical reports and documentation.
  • Experienced in requirements management and inter-document traceability.
  • Proficient in MS Office and preferably Jira, Confluence, PLM, or requirements management tools.
  • Possesses systematic thinking and the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Competencies

  • Experience with NDK legislation.
  • Knowledge of NRC 10 CFR Part 50 / Part 52.
  • Experience working with NRC Regulatory Guides and NUREG documents.
  • Knowledge of RG 1.206 / NUREG-0800.
  • Experience with IAEA Safety Standards.
  • Experience in preparing PSAR / FSAR.
  • Experience in Licensing Basis development.
  • Experience in creating Compliance Matrices / Requirements Traceability Matrices.
  • Familiarity with PSA/PRA studies.
  • Ability to read P&IDs and system design documents.
  • Knowledge of nuclear quality assurance systems.
  • Experience in ASME NQA-1 / ISO 19443.
  • Experience in Jira/Confluence or similar digital workflow systems.
  • Experience working in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, or regulatory automation.