Nuclear Material Accountability Engineer
Standard Nuclear, Inc.Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States · Posted 1 day agoDescription
Standard Nuclear is fueling America's nuclear renaissance at industrial scale. Our mission is to deliver the essential building blocks of nuclear power - enabling cost-effective, safe, and secure energy for the world.
The Nuclear Material Accountability Engineer supports Standard Nuclear's Nuclear Material Control & Accountability (NMC&A) Program across nuclear fuel manufacturing, laboratory, storage, material handling, and shipping/receiving activities. This role ensures nuclear material is accurately identified, measured, tracked, controlled, reconciled, and reported in accordance with approved procedures and applicable DOE, contractual, and facility requirements.
The position serves as a qualified Material Balance Area Coordinator (MBAC) for one or more assigned Material Balance Areas (MBAs) and supports day-to-day accountability activities including material transactions, physical inventories, material movements, measurement data review, tamper-indicating device (TID) controls, discrepancy resolution, records, and reporting.
This role works closely with Operations, Quality, Security, Radiation Protection / ES&H, Shipping and Receiving, Engineering, and NMC&A leadership. It requires strong analytical judgment, exceptional attention to detail, disciplined recordkeeping, and the ability to independently recognize, investigate, and escalate nuclear material discrepancies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Nuclear Material Control & Accountability
- Serve as the designated and qualified MBAC for one or more assigned Material Balance Areas
- Maintain accurate nuclear material location, quantity, material form, status, and identification information within assigned MBAs
- Verify receipts, transfers, movements, process transactions, and inventory changes are properly authorized and documented
- Support material balance calculations, inventory reconciliation, and investigation of inventory differences or discrepancies
- Review nuclear material transactions and records for completeness and accuracy before entry or submission to applicable accountability systems
- Coordinate and support periodic physical inventories of nuclear material within assigned MBAs
- Verify material identification, location, quantity, container status, and TID information during inventory activities
- Support inventory preparation, inventory freeze activities, counts, reconciliation, and closeout
- Investigate and document discrepancies identified during inventories
- Support independent verification, assessments, and audit activities associated with physical inventories
Material Movements & Transfers
- Coordinate and document nuclear material movements within and between MBAs and verify required authorization before transfers occur
- Confirm material identity, quantity, container identification, source and destination, and required documentation before transfers are completed
- Coordinate with Operations, Shipping and Receiving, Security, Radiation Protection, and NMC&A personnel for nuclear material movements
- Support preparation and verification of documentation associated with off-site receipts and shipments
- Ensure material movements comply with applicable access-control, two-person, TID, and material-control requirements
Measurement & Data Integrity
- Support implementation of nuclear material measurement and measurement-control requirements
- Review measurement data used for nuclear material accountability for completeness, traceability, and appropriate application
- Coordinate with technical personnel to resolve measurement anomalies, data-quality issues, and material-accounting discrepancies
- Support development and maintenance of material accountability data, reports, and performance indicators
- Maintain accurate, defensible electronic records using spreadsheets, databases, inventory tools, and material-accountability systems
Safeguards, TID & Material Controls
- Apply, verify, document, and control tamper-indicating devices in accordance with approved procedures and qualification requirements
- Maintain accurate records of TID numbers, application, removal, replacement, and status
- Verify container integrity and required material-control measures during routine activities
- Immediately report evidence of tampering, missing material, unauthorized movement, broken or unexpected TIDs, or other safeguards concerns
- Stop or suspend a nuclear material activity when required controls, authorizations, or documentation are not in place
Program Support & Compliance
- Perform assigned activities in accordance with the Standard Nuclear NMC&A Program and implementing procedures
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