PWR Nuclear Design Engineer, Westinghouse Västerås

Westinghouse Electric Company is a pioneer in developing solutions for the nuclear industry and a leading supplier of products and technologies for nuclear power plants. We have 9000 employees in 19 countries around the world. Today, Westinghouse technology is utilized in half of the world's operational nuclear power plants and we are building new reactors. Operations in Sweden started in 1969 and was incorporated in the Westinghouse group in the year of 2000. We offer nuclear fuel, products and services in automation, maintenance, testing and decommissioning to customers around the world. Westinghouse Sweden has 900 employees in Västerås and Täby. Find out more at www.westinghousenuclear.com
PWR Nuclear Design Engineer, Westinghouse Västerås
Are you interested in working with advanced technology and being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? Do you have physics knowledge, analytical skills and do you enjoy a dynamic and international working environment? Great – you should join our team!
The EMEA Fuel Engineering department in Västerås, Sweden is responsible for core design for both BWR and PWR reactors. Our work provides a critical contribution to the operations and business of nuclear power plants around the world. Thermohydraulic analysis, fuel rod design analysis and criticality analyses, to assure safe and optimized fuel to our customers, are other responsibilities of our skilled and dedicated team.
Your Day-To-Day Work
Using Westinghouse-specific PWR core simulators such as ANC, PHOENIX and PARAGON, your task is the nuclear design for our customers’ PWR reactors. Our work is partly cyclical and involves close collaboration with our American colleagues. Developing nuclear fuel design for manufacturing and performing core simulations based on the fuel assemblies’ placement in the core, you contribute to the optimization of fuel utilization and assurance that the safety requirements are fulfilled. All analyses are documented in reports, most often in English.
Examples of customer projects that you can be involved in as a nuclear design engineer are cycle specific safety analyses, development of the nuclear design for manufacturing, review of core loading plans developed by the customer, licensing of fuel and business quotes. We also perform criticality analyses for our fuel factory as well as for our customers.
Who You Are
Your academic background is preferably a PhD in, for example, nuclear physics and work experience in the field of core design and criticality calculations with MCNP is necessary.
You are an analytical person with a good sense of accuracy, accountability and safety. Your communication skills are good in both written and spoken English and preferably also in Swedish, Russian and Ukrainian, and you enjoy working both independently as well as in a team. As documentation of analysis results is an essential part of the work, you should also have a talent for writing reports.
Additional Information
We hope that you find this opportunity interesting, appealing and challenging! For more information about the position, you are welcome to contact:
Recruiting manager Christofer Willman (Manager, Criticality, Materials and Fuel Performance, EMEA Fuel Engineering, Västerås Sweden), phone +46 21-34 75 62 or e-mail willmack@westinghouse.com
This position is part of the collective agreement Teknikavtalet. A security clearance will be part of the selection process.
Our offer
Our business is covered by Teknikavtalen and local agreements. As a Westinghouse employee, you automatically benefit from ASB – a collective insurance plan for employees, as well as health benefits and occupational health care via Previa.
The well-being of our employees is our priority. We offer a flexible workplace and technical as well as personal development in our global high-tech corporation characterized by safety and innovation.