Engineer Principal

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Volt is immediately hiring for an Engineer Principal in Richland, WA.

Position Type: Full time (Contract)
Duration: 12 months

As an Engineer Principal, you will :

• Perform highly complex engineering analyses and designs in support of operations, systems, programs, audit inspections, and assessments requiring skills and experience gained through application of engineering methods and analysis, codes, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Work with minimal supervision. Serve as an advisor providing advice and counsel on assignments concerned with specialized or unique engineering requirements.
• Solutions provided involve unconventional or innovative program solving techniques. Provide technical leadership and training on highly complex or extended projects.
• Tasks typically involve highly complex problem-solving techniques and require advanced application of practices and methodologies.
• Provide leadership of small groups to resolve complex issues.
• Available guidance generally does not exist to fit problems encountered and advanced technological skills are required to provide solutions.
• Provide technical direction and leadership routinely to other engineers; serve as a mentor. Provide training to others.
• Identify need and initiate development of new policies, programs, plans, and procedures to meet strategic objectives.
• Assure compliance with regulatory and industry guidance. Provide interpretation of industry guidance for application.
• Identify potential problems in design, quality, or operation and initiate corrective action in accordance with plant Condition Report (CR) process.

Required skills:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university and eight years of engineering experience, plus one diverse assignment; OR a high school diploma or GED and PE license obtained by accredited examination plus eight years of engineering experience and one diverse assignment.
• Requires knowledge of discipline engineering principles, practices, and theories, and methods to identify and solve the highest complex problems and perform sophisticated analyses. Advanced technical knowledge of related disciplines is required.
• Must maintain current knowledge of industry developments and applications to client.
• Ability to provide strong technical guidance, leadership, and technical training to other technical employees.
• Ability to represent Engineering in industry working groups and other discipline related activities.
• Act as Responsible Engineer over engineering changes prepared by self and those performed by other architectural engineers in the Design Engineering Department.
• Work within a diverse team to complete various tasks to support major capital projects.

Pay Rate: $80-$85 per hour.

*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

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