[Hiring] Senior Consultant Energy @AtkinsRéalis

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Consultant Energy – Remote. This remote position is based out of our Oak Ridge, TN office.

• AtkinsRéalis US Nuclear is focused on serving government and commercial clients within the Nuclear sector in the United States.
• We aim to be recognized as a premier nuclear solutions company, delivering engineering, licensing, operations, safety analysis, and project management services.
• Serves both legacy and new-build nuclear clients who are designing, building, upgrading, operating, and maintaining nuclear power generation and fuel cycle assets.
• Supports commercial nuclear projects as business and project needs develop.
• Provides senior technical leadership and consulting support in probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), risk-informed decision-making, and the integration of risk insights into licensing, design, operations, maintenance, and project execution.
• Supports operating plants, new-build projects, advanced reactor development, and other nuclear facility projects in the United States and internationally.
• Reviews PRA methodologies, models, assumptions, results, and supporting documentation for technical quality, regulatory alignment, consistency, and fitness for purpose.
• Supports hazard identification, screening, evaluation, and risk quantification for internal events, shutdown conditions, internal flood, seismic events, high-wind events, and other external hazards.
• Evaluates plant response, system interactions, accident progression, system reliability, and risk-significant contributors.
• Integrates PRA insights into licensing strategies, safety cases, SSC classification, technical specifications, maintenance strategies, operating programs, and design decisions.
• Supports risk-informed and performance-based licensing approaches, including NEI 18-04 and RG 1.233 implementation.
• Develops, proposes, reviews, or advises on PRA methodologies, technical approaches, analysis assumptions, and model-development strategies.
• Coordinates PRA interfaces with deterministic safety analysis, severe accident analysis, source term development, emergency planning, fire protection assessments, and other nuclear safety analysis disciplines.
• Supports regulatory interactions, technical meetings, audits, workshops, and responses related to PRA and risk-informed licensing topics.
• Supports the preparation and review of proposals, scopes of work, schedules, estimates, and execution plans for PRA and risk-informed licensing activities.
• Provides mentoring, knowledge transfer, and technical development support to engineers and analysts.
• Ensures work is performed in accordance with applicable nuclear quality assurance requirements, project procedures, PRA standards, regulatory guidance, and client expectations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering or technical discipline.
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant nuclear industry experience, including significant experience in PRA, risk management, or risk-informed applications.
• Demonstrated experience applying PRA insights to nuclear plant licensing, design, operations, maintenance, or safety decision-making.
• Strong technical knowledge of PRA methods, risk-informed decision-making, and nuclear safety analysis.
• Strong understanding of nuclear plant systems, operations, accident response, and safety functions.
• Ability to rapidly develop familiarity with different reactor technologies, plant designs, regulatory frameworks, and licensing approaches.
• Ability to interpret PRA results and translate risk insights into actionable licensing, design, operational, and maintenance decisions.
• Familiarity with PRA software tools used for fault tree and event tree modeling, model quantification, external hazards analysis, risk monitoring, and related risk-informed applications.
• Knowledge of applicable US and international nuclear licensing requirements, PRA standards, industry guidance, and quality assurance expectations.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound technical judgment, and manage multiple priorities.

Requirements

• Experience supporting Level 1, Level 2, and/or Level 3 PRA preferred.
• Experience supporting operating plants, advanced reactors, small modular reactors, new-build, refurbishment, or first-of-a-kind projects desired.
• Experience with risk-informed licensing methodologies, such as NEI 18-04 and RG 1.233 a plus.
• Experience with internal events, shutdown risk, internal flood, seismic PRA, other external hazards, severe accident analysis, source term development, or operational risk applications preferred.
• Experience using PRA modeling, quantification, and risk-management software, including the EPRI Phoenix Architect software suite, RiskSpectrum, or comparable software platforms a plus.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license and other relevant nuclear industry qualifications or certifications are desirable.
• Must be a U.S. citizen in order to be considered.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, company-paid life and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Employer-matched 401(k) with 100% vesting.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid Time Off and leaves of absence options.
• Flexible work options.
• Recognition and employee satisfaction programs.
• Employee assistance program and voluntary benefits.