Reactor Operator

Job Title: Reactor Operator
Posting Date: ‎24-Apr-‎2023
Requisition ID: ‎1125
Company: NAWAH
Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, AE
Employment Type: Regular Employee
Seasonality Classification: ‎4 Unit Steady State
Job Purpose

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.
Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability
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
Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

N/A
Professional Certifications
Minimum
N/A

Preferred
* Currently hold or previously held PWR Reactor Operator License/Certification from a relevant nuclear regulatory authority.
* FANR Reactor Operator Certification.
Qualifications
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.
Experience