Summary These positions are located in Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), Division of Risk Analysis (DRA), Probabilistic Risk Assessment Branch (PRAB) and the Performance and Reliability Branch (PRB). The supervisors are Jonathan Evans and Mehdi Reisi-Fard. This position is in the Bargaining Unit with the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 208. This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting and security ownership restriction reporting requirements. Responsibilities The successful candidate will perform the full range of Reliability and Risk Analyst duties. You will carry out technical duties with respect to the quantitative, probabilistic, analyses of issues in nuclear safety and initiate appropriate actions to obtain solutions to problems which arise in fulfilling assignments. Specifically, the following types of reliability and risk analyses are performed, either in the context of a specific issue or a broader analysis of facility or device risk: Performing risk analyses and evaluates the design and functional capability of nuclear facilities and/or devices to withstand accident conditions, with a focus on estimating the frequencies of accidents and their consequences. Analyses the types of events which can initiate accidents in nuclear facilities or devices, and the frequency of such events. Providing development and application of event and fault trees, or other similar types of models, to logically structure the combinations of system failures needed to resulting accidents and the specific failure mechanisms of systems designed to cope with such accidents, as well as to quantify the probabilities in such trees, including analysis of common-cause failure mechanisms. Providing development and application of models to assess the reliability of humans both before and during an accident, and to quantify the associated probabilities. Providing development and application of accident progression event trees, or other similar models, to identify potential radioactive release pathways and quantify the probabilities of these pathways. Such duties include but are not limited to: 1. Conducting analyses of the public health and economic consequences, and the overall public risk, of such accidents. 2. Leading discussions of methods, data, and results in the areas described above to other technical staff that need this information in the conduct of their work. 3. Drafting technical reports and makes presentations to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, the Commission, upper management, and outside groups on technical issues, concerns, or positions developed on regulatory issues related to analyses performed. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hire You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower grade level (GG-13) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as experience that demonstrates professional engineering and/or scientific expertise associated with probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) related issues for new and operating reactors including development of policy and guidance, evaluations of applications for new designs and licensing actions, and analysis of plant operating performance using PRA techniques to evaluate safety risk. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: 1. Demonstrated knowledge of the design, operation and configuration of major systems of commercial nuclear power plants (reactor, engineered safety feature, balance of plant, and auxiliary). Examples may include education, training, and experience you have related to engineering (nuclear, mechanical, electrical, chemical or similar) or natural sciences (e.g., physics). Examples may also include experience related to the following: (1) engineering and analysis or inspection experience involving design, maintenance, or operation of nuclear power plant systems; (2) plant transient and accident analysis typical of or similar to Safety Analysis Report Chapter 15). 2. Demonstrated skill in applying the principles, theories, and practices of probabilistic risk analysis in the assessment of complex nuclear facilities (e.g., operating commercial nuclear power reactors, new reactor designs, fuel cycle, spent fuel management, etc.) Examples may include experience, education, and training which demonstrates your knowledge of the principles, theories and practices of engineering or physical science as it relates to the application of reliability and risk analysis, and/or severe accident analysis in nuclear power facility design, fabrication, construction, analysis, testing, maintenance and/or operations. Examples may also include your experience in the application of probabilistic risk analysis for nuclear power plants, other complex facilities, or PRA related voluntary consensus standards and your accomplishments in areas such as Levels 1, 2, and 3 risk analyses; severe accident progression; low-power and shut down operations; fire safety; human reliability analysis; common cause failure; and external events. 3. Demonstrated ability to ability to manage complex regulatory or technical issues and to develop sound recommendations and solutions. Examples may include experience and training with managing complex regulatory or technical issues and developing recommendations for resolution. Examples may also include your specific role and reflect your technical ability and contribution. 4. Ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, with colleagues, subordinates, management, the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) or industry equivalent, the Commission or industry equivalent, members of the public, representatives of professional groups, or other Federal or State agencies. Examples may include specific experience, training and accomplishments which demonstrate your communication skills, both orally and in writing. Examples may also include your ability to lead complex technical discussions and consolidate complex and diverse opinions into concise presentations, memoranda, letters, reports; your ability to formulate balanced and well-founded recommendations; oral and written presentations you have performed within your organization, including published technical documents you have authored; and Describe presentations you have made to outside groups including professional organizations, advisory groups, the public, and/or Congress). A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume and additional space provided for supplemental response. Education Qualification for 0801 Series: Basic Requirements: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2)include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f)nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: 1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than rottenest (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Additional Information The duty location of this position is Rockville, Maryland. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4days per pay period**. Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable.