JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the completion of various technical licensing work scopes assigned to support various projects, including new reactor licensing for the BWRX-300 Advanced Nuclear Projects, operating fleet licensing support, customer plant support on GE Hitachi (GEH) / Global Nuclear Fuels (GNF) nuclear methods, and working with GEH / GNF Engineering and Regulatory Affairs teams on major projects.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 7 years of related professional work experience including:
• six (6) years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience
• two (2) years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

OR

• Master’s Degree in a science or engineering discipline from an accredited university or college, with a minimum of 6 years of related professional work experience including:
• 3 years of commercial operating or new proposed nuclear power plant experience
• 2 years of experience leading or independently completing complex projects, and providing regulatory guidance / direction to contributing functions (i.e., Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Analysis)

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

• GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening.
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain a site security clearance, including any required regulatory background check.

The Canadian Licensing Technical Leader, Regulatory Affairs, will report to the Canadian Licensing Manager, and manage the work and provide technical leadership for a team of Licensing Engineers for the following activities:

• Development of work plans and ensuring schedule adherence for all licensing deliverables while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Reviewing and approving customer and regulatory deliverables to ensure high quality standards.
• Mitigating risks to deliverables and managing competing priorities on multiple projects.
• Adherence to all applicable procedures and to project-specific work plans and instructions.
• Identify and originate Condition Reports to drive continuous improvements as necessary.
• Ensure training of team members is up to date.
• Process documents in the Product Lifecycle Management tool including uploading quality records and supporting documentation and creating change actions with assigned reviewers and approvals.
• Prepare licensing basis documentation in support of customer licensing applications for new reactor construction and operations, including but not limited to Preliminary Safety Analysis Reports (PSARs), Pre-Operational Safety Analysis Reports (POSAR), Final Safety Analysis Reports (FSARs), Technical Specifications, Technical Specification Bases, and Availability Controls Manuals.
• Prepare licensing basis documentation and reports supporting customer licence amendments and licensing applications.
• Support customer requests for preparation or review of unreviewed safety question determinations, including preparation of Technical Safety Evaluation Reports and working with internal teams coordinating licensing status of various fuel design changes and fuel and reactor methods changes.
• Interface with customers and regulatory personnel on regulatory issues, and to secure applicable permissions and approvals related to work scopes.
• Support engineering in assessing licensing impact and developing licensing strategies to mitigate licensing risks.
• Support the commercial team in the development of Licensing Proposals and responses to Requests for Information by prospective customers.