Reactor Operator

Monitor and manipulate plant controls to achieve a high level of safety and reliability of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plants (BNPP) in accordance with all operating procedures & policies, regulatory requirements, and nuclear, industrial, and environmental protection standards ensuring overall business performance objectives are achieved.

Activity:
Plant Operation
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Assess plant conditions and at the direction of shift management, implement appropriate actions and controls of all activities affecting core reactivity to mitigate events and resolve issues.
• Monitor Main Control Room indicating parameters and trends, updating the operating crew of adverse conditions, and taking prompt action if required to stabilize the plant.
• Conduct a thorough inspection of all areas assigned within responsibilities at designated times to check that equipment is operating properly and standby equipment is fully capable of being operated.
• Monitor equipment performance to identify trends, detect abnormal and adverse conditions, and communicate those trends to shift management.
• Monitor plant response during refueling outage activities to ensure the core is responding as expected while moving fuel assemblies into and out of the vessel.
• Provide direction to (and monitor) Local Operators to perform plant manipulations outside the Main Control Room.
• Check plant and crew performance on a day-to-day basis and perform periodic assessments to identify areas for improvement.
• Conduct comprehensive reviews of written records, logs, equipment and control board information throughout the shift including turnovers to understand how plant equipment is performing.
• Develop or implement equipment clearance orders in support of maintenance or testing.
• Comply with all plant procedure and policies, technical specification and regulatory requirements to achieve a high level of safe and reliable operations.
• Partake in and contribute to pre-job briefings prior to plant activities including surveillances, maintenance activities/troubleshooting, special tests and infrequently performed evolutions to ensure safety and alignment around the desired outcomes and planned execution.
• Prepare written records, logs, equipment, and control board information throughout the shift including turnovers to facilitate understanding of how plant equipment is performing.
• Keep continuous familiarity with plant operating instructions, noting any change or modification that is made in them as a result of design, plant status, or other requirements to ensure safe plant operation.
• Execute additional technical or administrative tasks as directed by shift management to support plant operations.
• Follow plant procedures, technical specification requirements, sound operating practices, proper industrial safety, radiological protection, communications, and quality assurance practices to ensure safe and reliable plant operation.
• Perform according to operator guidelines in case of normal, abnormal and emergency conditions to ensure safety and operational excellence.

Training and Qualification
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Comply with identified Initial and Requalification (Requal) training to obtain and maintain the required knowledge level, skills, and proficiency of a Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) Certified Reactor Operator.
• Provide continuous improvement training feedback on program effectiveness to enhance overall program effectiveness.

Outage and Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Support
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Support outage and/or the ERO, as assigned, to ensure safe, reliable and continued operations; this may require shift work/off hours support.

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

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Minimum
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Preferred

• Currently hold or previously held PWR Reactor Operator License/Certification from a relevant nuclear regulatory authority.
• FANR Reactor Operator Certification.

Minimum

• High school Equivalent certification for completion of study in basic math, science and literacy skills or Higher Diploma for Nuclear Technology (HDNT).
• 2 years of relevant experience.

Preferred

• Over 3 years of nuclear power plant experience.
• 6 months on-site experience at BNPP.