Senior Reactor Engineer

Job Title: Senior Reactor Engineer

Posting Date: 5 Oct 2025

Requisition ID: 3002

Company: NAWAH (ENEC Operations)

Location: Barakah

Posting Status: Active Recruitment

Job Purpose

Execute reactor engineering responsibilities throughout the planning, execution of core management activities, core design and reactivity management for the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Support fuel handling, inspection and storing as per the regulatory requirements, operating policies and principles, nuclear standards for nuclear safety, industrial safety, and environmental protection, to ensure overall business performance objectives are achieved.

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

Activity:

Reactor Engineering (RE) Plants and Support

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Support design changes, and the ownership and maintenance of the design basis, margin management, design process, configuration management process and output documents to provide RE perspective and input
• Adhere to industrial codes and standards as well as department practices and procedures to maintain compliance.
• Provide technical support and troubleshoot Core Protection Calculator (CPC)/ Core Operating Limit Supervisory System (COLSS) to maintain safe and reliable operations.
• Participate in analyzing the Reload Safety and Licensing Checklist (RSLC) and Reload Safety Evaluation Report (RSER) to assists in recommending any necessary safety improvements.
• Participate in Loading Pattern (LP) initialization meeting and assist developing final LP recommendation.
• Assess and recommend the revision of Nuclear Design Report (NDR) and operation support documents delivered by fuel vendor to ensure documentation accuracy and relevancy.
• Participate in evaluating the sensitivity of In-Core neutron Instrumentation (ICI) and degradation of Control Element Assemblies (CEA) to maintain safe operations.
• Develop surveillance calculation for vessel fluence to establish the standard to be used.
• Analyze each units core performance data and liaise with Fuel designer to resolve any unexpected condition before negative effects materialize.
  
  

For positions under Reactor Engineering Support only

• Perform verification and validation (V&V) of fuel vendor delivered core design including reload safety evaluation assessment to ensure alignment with standards.
• Evaluate risks of reload core design to provide independent recommendations.
• Develop and apply technical solutions, often which require original and creative approaches and strong analytical and technical expertise, to resolve potential issues.
• Liaise with Licensing to resolve Request for Additional Information (RAI) and Areas for Improvement (AFIs).
  
  

For positions under Plant Reactor Engineering only

• Review and evaluate Low Power Physics Test (LPPT) and Power Ascension Test (PAT) results to develop actionable recommendations related to results.
• Support Main Control Room (MCR) operators during startup, shutdown, and power evolutions to ensure safe operations.
• Monitor core reactivity change and estimate cycle scheme to develop recommendations that may be needed.
• Implement Reactivity Management (RM) strategies and plans for planned power evolution, such as plant startups, shutdowns and transients.
• Ensure the creation and update of work management schedule for specific RE work items, to plan for the execution of assigned work.
• Ensure the establishment of equipment maintenance plan and conduct regular calibration / replacement to ensure continued operation of equipment.
  
  

Fuel Management (FM)

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Conduct new and spent fuel inspection and recommend resolution to any identified issues during inspections to ensure integrity and safety.
• Oversee Foreign Material Exclusion (FME) activities in Fuel Handling Area (FHA) to secure fuel integrity.
  
  

For positions under Reactor Engineering Support only

• Implement the plan for fuel receipt, fuel loading, fuel handling related action, and receiving Neutron Source Assembly (NSA) and troubleshooting technical issues during the campaign.
  
  

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

• Develop core loading sequence based on reload core loading pattern to ensure operational and safety excellence.
• Oversee fuel fabrication process to validate alignment with operational standards.
• Prepare, update, and facilitate Failed Fuel Action Plan to close current and prevent future issues.
  
  

Support of Safeguards

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Endorse safeguard activities especially maintaining nuclear materials records to fulfill obligations under Regulation for the System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material and Additional Protocol (FANR-REG-10).
  
  

Fuel Integrity Monitoring

Responsibilities And Accountabilities:

• Analyze fuel reliability, especially radioactivity of reactor coolant system in order to predict fuel defects, number of defects, defect pattern and defective fuel region in case of fuel failure to ensure alignment with performance and safety parameters.
  
  

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

Professional Certifications

Minimum

N/A

Preferred

• APPU-RE-SPEC-QC-3006 Initial Criticality & Low Power Physics Test
• APPU-RE-SPEC-QC-3007 Power Ascension Test
• APPU-RE-SPEC-QC-3009 Support Reactivity Control
• APPU-RE-SPEC-QC-3010 Reload Core Design
• APPU-ESPIT-QC-2003 Reactor Engineer
• APPU-RE-SPEC-QC-3008 Core Monitoring Equipment Operability Check
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

• Bachelors Degree in Nuclear Engineering or Physics.
• 1 year of Nuclear Power Plant Engineering experience and APR-1400, OPR-1000, or similar type plant experience.

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