Job Title:  Senior Nuclear Risk Management Engineer

Job Purpose

Draft, maintain, update and implement the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) NRM models, programs and applications, including; Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) model and application, Accident Management Program (AMP) and Severe Accident Analysis (SAA) program for the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in order to ensure that all the requirements regarding the scope and quality are met with the agreed timelines, in adherence with the regulations of the Federal Authority Nuclear Regulation (FANR).

Key Activities, Responsibility & Accountability

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• Execute additional severe accident analysis to ensure compliance with FANR regulation, including: PRA Level II Severe Accident Analysis, Severe Accident Management Guideline (SAMG) Severe Accident Analysis, and Fukushima Severe Accident Analysis.

• Provide technical information and risk insights to support Severe Accident Drills and Exercises for the site engineers.

• Develop and update SAMG to stay in accordance with design changes, procedure changes, new regulatory policies, and new severe accident phenomena.

Activity: 

Severe Accident Management Program 

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Develop and implement severe accident management guidance and procedure in order to ensure effective and consistent processes.

• Develop and implement severe accident management training program to ensure appropriate awareness across the organization.

• Prepare tools for mitigating core damage events methods to preserve possible barriers against event spreading and mitigate consequence of severe accident.

• Verify and develop possible methods to detect early phase of severe accidents and estimate consequences of unspecified events.

Activity: 

Document Management

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Review and update the PRA, RIMS, Phoenix and Periodic Safety Review (PSR) procedures and guides to ensure the content is applicable/ valid and accurate.

• Prepare reports regarding PRA, RIMS, Phoenix and PSR to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Activity: 

Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity 

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• All individuals take personal responsibility for safety; follow company HSE policies, procedures and instructions; avoid complacency and continuously challenge existing conditions and activities in order to identify discrepancies that might result in error or in appropriate action; report any situation that could present a hazard; not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided at the workplace in the interest of health, safety, welfare or protection or management of the environment.

• Follow all relevant Security policies, processes, procedures, and instructions to ensure security compliance in all aspects of work, by applying them on self, others, and corporate assets.

• Follow all relevant Business Continuity and Resilience requirements for compliance with, and adherence to, policies, procedures and instructions related to the effective planning for, and response to, incidents and/or business disruptions in order to continue critical business processes and activities with minimal adverse impact.

Activity: 

People Management

Responsibilities and Accountabilities 

• Contribute to the development of UAE National employees in a manner which supports the objectives of the corporation and its Emiratization strategy.

• Contribute to knowledge dissemination/sharing in a way that assists with building internal capabilities of UAE National

Responsibilities & Accountabilities (contd.)

Activity: 

PRA Model

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Develop and maintain PRA model as-operated to meet regulatory requirements for Operating License Application (OLA) and ensure the safety of BNPP against severe accident.

• Identify and file event trees and fault trees based on plant-specific design and operation conditions to respond to Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) Requests for Additional Information (RAIs) and support various PRA applications.

• Update the PRA database (equipment failure data, reactor trip data, etc.) to reflect the as-is plant data into the PRA model and Risk Monitoring System (RIMS)/ Phoenix model and to get current PRA insights. 

• Perform updates to the Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR 19.1), PRA Summary Report, and PRA Notebooks after reviewing PRA model procedures to ensure its integration with other departments to enhance operational efficiency. 

• Verify PRA Model against international industry experts such as Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Pressurized Water Reactor Owner Group (PWROG), etc. to improve PRA methodologies and documentations.

Activity: 

PRA Applications

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Draft independent plant risk evaluation and provide PRA results to the plant operations, maintenance, and work management organization to inform safe and reliable operations. 

• Verify risk insights obtained from the PRA model to complement design, construction and operation of the facility in nuclear power plant thus improve plant safety and minimize nuclear risk.

Activity: 

Post-Fukushima Action Plan

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Verify all elements of Post-Fukushima Action Plan to ensure compliance with international standards; reviews include: existing respected action plans (e.g., IAEA), BNPP-specific design and severe accidents, severe accident mitigating equipment, equipment survivability, etc.  

• Draft short-term and long-term Post-Fukushima action plan of prevention and mitigation strategies to enhance the safety of BNPP against key external events: fire, flooding, seismic, sand storm/sand dust, tornado, tsunami, etc.

Activity: 

Severe Accident Analysis

Responsibilities and Accountabilities: 

• Draft components of Severe Accident Analysis program to support accident analysis at BNPP and ensure compliance with FANR regulation, including:

- Severe Accident Prevention Analysis for Anticipated Transient Without Scram (ATWS), Mid-Loop operation, Station Black-out, Fire, Intersystem Loss-of-Coolant Accident, Earthquakes, Flooding/Tsunami.

- Severe Accident Mitigation Features: Containment Design, Cavity Flooding System, Hydrogen Mitigation System, Safety Depressurization and Vent System, Cavity Structure Design, Emergency Containment Spray Backup System.

- Input and parameter database of Severe Accident Analysis Computer Code (MAAP).

- MAAP code Limitation and Accuracy.

- Severe Accident Analysis History with Background Documen

Professional Certifications

CertificateMin: N/A

CertificateMax: N/A

Qualifications

QualificationMin: • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. 

• 5 years of relevant experience.

QualificationMax: • Master’s degree in engineering or related science with experience in PRA model development and specific risk-informed applications in nuclear plant operation / engineering

Experience