As an ONR Structural Integrity Inspector, you will be concerned with the integrity of pressure vessels, pipework, tanks, and their supporting structures through their full life cycle.
For Light Water Reactors it includes the nuclear safety significant vessels including the reactor pressure vessel; associated pipework; and vessel internal structures. For chemical plants it includes the main processing vessels and pipework that contain radioactive materials. With Advanced Gas-Cooled reactors this includes the boilers within the concrete pressure vessel; the steam, feed and other pipework that sit outside the pressure vessels; reactor internals; and the graphite core itself.
We are looking for experts who not only have a specialism related to structural integrity, but those who have developed an understanding of the inter-relationship between stresses, materials, defects and degradation in structural integrity; the different aspects that contribute to a structural integrity safety case.
As well as providing guidance and advice in your specialism, you would need to be able to lead on the technical assessment of structural integrity aspects of safety cases (with occasional support from other specialist inspectors) and site-based interventions.
Experience
We are looking for people with a specialist knowledge of one (or more) of the following areas; specialists who can also take the lead on the overall assessment of a safety case; a case that could include aspects of several of the areas outlined below:
- Stress analysis and pressure vessel design code assessment to ASME III or RCCM Fracture mechanics assessments using R6, RSEM or similar assessment codes and high temperature assessment to the R5 procedure or similar;
- Materials behaviour such as irradiation embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking, creep, environmentally assisted fatigue, and other ageing and degradation phenomena;
- Non-destructive examination testing and inspection qualification processes such as ENIQ;
- Casting, Forging, Welding and fabrication including the production of high-integrity pressure vessels, pipework, and other structures for nuclear or high-hazard applications; and
- Graphite reactor core integrity including material degradation processes and engineering analysis and stimulation.
How to apply
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