Nuclear Safety/Integrated Safety Analysis Engineer

About the role

Our strengths? Across the entire fuel cycle, we have extensive expertise in cutting-edge technologies, safe, high value-added products and services, and a strong capacity for innovation.

Step into a career-defining opportunity with Orano USA, a global leader in nuclear innovation, as we launch Project IKE—a cutting-edge uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Orano is seeking a Nuclear Safety/Integrated Safety Analysis Engineer to support Project IKE.

The Nuclear Safety/ISA Engineer is responsible for the development and implementation of the Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA), including Items Relied On For Safety (IROFS), as well as oversight of the criticality, chemical process, fire safety strategies, and detailed design for nuclear safety to ensure compliance with the license documents.

• Lead development, update, and configuration control of the facility Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA), ISA Summary, and supporting safety-basis documentation consistent with 10 CFR 70 Subpart H, NUREG-1520, and applicable NRC guidance.
• Perform and independently review hazard identification, process hazard analysis (HAZOP, HAZID, What-If, FMEA), accident sequence evaluation, and consequence/likelihood assessments for enrichment process systems, UF6 handling, cascading, support utilities, and construction/commissioning activities.
• Identify Items Relied On For Safety (IROFS), define functional requirements, management measures, and performance criteria; support reliability, availability, and maintainability of safety controls.
• Prepare and review Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ) / change evaluations, major modification determinations, and 10 CFR 70.72 change-process packages.
• Support NRC license application, RAIs, inspections, and operational readiness; brief federal counterparts on the scope of hazards analyzed and the credited safety controls.
• Evaluate design packages, vendor documents, procedures, and field changes for impact on the safety basis; provide safety-in-design challenge to mechanical, process, I&C, civil/structural, and fire-protection disciplines.
• Integrate nuclear criticality safety, chemical/toxicological consequence, fire protection, natural phenomena hazards, and human-performance considerations into a coherent facility safety case.
• Investigate operational events, near misses, and new technical information; recommend corrective actions and safety-basis updates.
• Author clear, defensible technical reports and present findings to project leadership, independent reviewers, and regulators.
• Mentor Safety Engineers and analysts; establish analysis standards, templates, and review practices for a first-of-a-kind commercial enrichment facility.
• Support emergency planning, fire-safety licensing interfaces, and readiness reviews as assigned.