Process Modeling Engineer

Title Process Modeling Engineer

Position Number 39528

Company WA River Protection Solutions

City/State Richland, WA

Location RCHN

Posted 10/15/2024

Closes 10/29/2024

Regular/Temporary Regular

Full/Part-Time Full-Time

Job Responsibilities/Duties

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site in southeastern Washington State manages 177 underground tanks containing approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemically hazardous wastes, part of the nation's Cold War environmental legacy resulting from decades of reprocessing nuclear fuel for weapons production. The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Mission is to treat this tank waste and close the Hanford Site tanks to eliminate the environmental hazard posed by the waste and protect the Columbia River. This represents one of the world's largest and most complex environmental cleanup projects.

The Mission Analysis and Planning group within Washington River Protection Solutions supports the tank waste treatment mission through the development and analysis of plans, risks, contingencies, and alternatives for mission execution. Planning activities occur on a range of time scales, from detailed near-term operational planning through long-term system planning. Plans and analyses are backed by computer simulations and process modes simulating waste retrieval and treatment.

This position will be on the System Planning and Alternatives Analysis Team, a team of eight engineers who employ mission simulations and engineering expertise to perform complex techno-economic analysis of the long-term Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Mission and provide insight to key decision-makers. Specifically, the accountabilities of the engineer include:

• Develop ad-hoc chemical process and operations models to simulate alternative plans for completing the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment Mission

• Conduct uncertainty and sensitivity analyses around planning scenarios

• May act as model lead, including reviewing and approving (approval authority) for requirements baselines as well as leading acceptance testing

• Document changes to model designs, algorithms, and inputs

• Maintain configuration management of model changes using industry standard version control systems (i.e. Azure DevOps and Git) and comply with applicable software quality assurance requirements and modeling best practices

• Develop state-of-the-art data visualizations and analytics

• Support NQA-1 compliant software development processes

Required Qualifications

Grade 16

Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Chemical Engineering or related technical discipline; and

Two (2) years of related experience

Grade 17

Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Chemical Engineering or related technical discipline; and

Five (5) years of related experience

Note the essential duties for this grade level are like that of the previous grade level, however the scope of responsibility is larger, and the expected level of performance is increased.

Grade 18

Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Chemical Engineering or related technical discipline; and

Seven (7) years of related experience

Note the essential duties for this grade level are like that of the previous grade level, however the scope of responsibility is significantly larger, and the expected level of performance is greatly increased.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in process engineering, process modeling, and/or operations modeling

Experience with programming in Gensym G2 or any lower-level object-oriented language such as C/C++

Experience with programming in C#, Python, and/or SQL

Experience with Tableau or similar data visualization software

Experience with the Jama requirements management software

Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, or similar software management tools

Background/coursework in computer science

Knowledge of software quality assurance and configuration management processes/requirements

Master's degree in a related discipline

Knowledge of Hanford Tank Waste Treatment flowsheets

Compensation & Benefits

In accordance with the company's philosophy on compensation for exempt and salaried non-exempt employees, WRPS takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining initial salary to include assigned job scope and responsibility, a candidate's qualifications as compared to internal comparators performing in a similar role, and the external labor market. A salary offer will be made within the targeted hiring range posted. Note a candidate's prior salary history will not be taken into consideration.

Hiring Range Minimum: $86,138

Hiring Range Maximum: $131,425

WRPS offers a comprehensive benefits package to include medical/dental/vision, short-and long-term disability, life insurance, 401(k) with employer match, and paid time off. For a full list of benefits please visit~~~

Relocation Funding Provided Yes

U.S. Citizenship Required Yes

Clearance Required No

Job Classification Exempt

Shift Work Required No

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