V&V Manager - ICE

• Defining, coordinating, and executing a specific portion of the interdisciplinary technical scope within the Reactor Project through project completion.
• Building a team through hiring/staffing the correct mix of skillset, experience, and knowledge.
• Growing the personnel within their team through annual goal setting and monitoring, career growth opportunities, and encouraging professional development.
• Ensuring staff members are trained to appropriate standards.
• Leverage both internal and external means to provide support as needed to achieve project goals.
• Drive work performance and technical quality across their team through schedule planning and monitoring, cost planning and management, staffing planning, management, and risk management.
• Develop Digital I&C V&V Plans, Procedures and Policies in accordance with applicable NRC
• Reg Guides and Standards and aligned to Company corporate and project level Procedures and policies.
• Provide technically independent review and verification of systems, software, hardware requirements, design documents, and specifications.
• Focus on supplier's V&V technical performance and management.
• Plan supplier's Configuration Management (CM) audits and program's reviews.
• Participate and support auditing, inspections and review of supplier's V&V deliverables.
• Assess, and as necessary oversee code and high-level software and firmware language reviews.
• Oversee execution of software and hardware testing performed by suppliers throughout the digital system lifecycle.
• Develop and lead the I&C early integration strategy.
• Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices in order to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.
• Integrate with work of other disciplines, engineers, scientists, and subject matter experts.
• Interface with and support licensing activities. Interface with equipment qualification, commissioning, and startup testing teams.

• B.S. or higher in Controls, Electrical, Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited university.
• 5+ years direct experience performing NQA-1 Design Verification and Validation activities.
• 5+ years of experience in a management role.
• Candidates should have experience in instrumentation and controls development, diagnostics, and a demonstrated ability to audit, inspect review, verify, and validate industrial I&C platforms, applications, integrated systems and generate applicable phase reports.
• Strong background in development of highly reliable software or firmware systems often used in mission critical applications.
• Experience with I&C system, software and hardware testing.
• Previous experience with nuclear reactor safety systems or nuclear instrumentation systems designs desired.
• Familiarity with RG 1.28, RG 1.168, RG 1.169, RG 1.170, RG 1.171, RG 1.172, RG 1.173, IEEE 7-4.3.2, IEEE 1012, IEEE 1028 IEEE 828, IEEE 829, IEEE 1008, IEEE 1074 and IEEE 1028 a plus.
• Familiarity with design control and development in accordance with nuclear power plant quality assurance (e.g., 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, ASME NQA-1).
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence.
• Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate with a team with minimal direction on tasks and activities.
• Ability to work on multiple simultaneous tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.
• The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
• Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
• Travel Required: 5-20%

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Salary Range Level 12: $169,922 - $235,464
• Location: Bellevue, WA.
• Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status

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