Principal Design Engineer

Job Title: Principal Design Engineer

Posting Date: 8 Dec 2025

Requisition ID: 3384

Company: NAWAH (ENEC Operations)

Location: Barakah

Posting Status: Active Recruitment

Job Purpose

Lead the design of major baseline modifications and design basis control and maintenance. Lead the implementation of an effective configuration control of design output documents (i.e., specifications, calculations, drawings, test requirements, and procedures) for the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) as per the regulatory requirements, operating policies and principles, nuclear standards for nuclear safety, industrial safety, and environmental protection, to ensure overall Design Change objectives are achieved.

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

Activity:

Design Engineering

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Lead development of permanent design modifications, including business cases and cost benefit analyses, to plant systems, components, and structures to maintain and improve plant reliability and safety.
• Liaise with the design change committee to keep modifications prioritized and well communicated.
• Provide support in the management of functional locations and equipment master database to ensure accurate plant records for safety and maintainability.
• Provide support to the configuration management process and coach more junior engineers on the value of the process to keep the plant in configuration control.
• Support the unit start-up test, Power Ascension Test (PAT), to identify any possible engineering issues.
• Validate engineering documents and data to maintain accurate and relevant design engineering records.
• Manage the creation of consolidated equipment and process lists, such as set points and breakers, to keep it current and support additional analysis as required.
• Provide advanced technical support to operations, maintenance, engineering, and other plant or central organizations as required to solve difficult technical issues
• Identify and direct design engineering work to resolve issues via the corrective action and work management processes to support safe and reliable operation.
• Develop, review, and validate engineering products in accordance with defined standards and procedures to provide effective design modification.
• Provide support in the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) operational peer reviews to align to industrial best practices.
• Identify potential cyber-security items to the Cyber-Security Action team within I&C Design Engineering to ensure the items proper evaluation.
• Lead Design seismic qualification reviews and specification development to ensure consistency with seismic program requirements.
• Lead the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) change impact assessment to ensure that design changes are consistent with the requirements of the FSAR.
• Lead the Structural Monitoring Program performed by the Civil Design Engineering section to ensure that current conditions can be well understood to support long-term operation and maintenance decisions (For Civil Design Only).
• Lead technical reviews and analysis of proposed software configuration management change items to track and control versions of application programs used for BNPP operation, design and analysis(For I&C Design Only).
  
  

Staff Training and Qualification

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Provide feedback on training program effectiveness using operator performance evaluation to enhance the quality of the training and qualification program.
• Participate in training to equip necessary technical knowledge and skills.
  
  

Outage and Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Support

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Support outage and the ERO, as assigned, to ensure safe, reliable and continued operations; this may require shift work/off hours support.
  
  

The incumbent is expected to perform standard activities as per attachments 4 & 5 in the Job Description procedure (relating to Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity, People Management, Excellence and Quality Management

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

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Professional Certifications

Minimum

N/A

Preferred

• APPU-ENG-IT-QC2001-SE.
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelors Degree or Diploma (or Equivalent) Degree in Engineering or related Science.
• 8 years of relevant experience, out of which:
• 1 year of Nuclear Power Plant engineering experience.
  
  

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with APR-1400 or OPR-1000 maintenance and engineering experience.

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