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Lead Design Engineer - Contract

Diablo Canyon


Your Day-to-Day:

This Lead Engineer will be responsible to leader and collaborate with the customer and Westinghouse stakeholders to define and convey the engineering process requirements for implementing Engineering Changes and Item Equivalencies. The person selected for this position will participate in process development, change management, and oversight of a small team (3-5 people) to ensure that customer requirements are defined and satisfied. This role is expected to have a good baseline knowledge around Configuration Management processes and ability to support utility customers in implementing process changes.


  • Understanding and developing engineering change processes
  • Developing and implementing a Change Management Plan at a Commercial Nuclear Facility
  • Collaborating with Management, Engineers, Stakeholders, and Procedure Writers to gain process alignment
  • Experience with communicating with and escalating to management personnel to gain results
  • Ability to evaluate and prioritize process requirements to gain alignment towards a goal
  • Facilitate and coordinate procedure reviews and stakeholder meetings
  • Facilitate and coordinate training on the Standard Design Process (SDP), including on-site sessions
  • Effectively leading activities and teams of engineers
  • Setting day-to-day operational objectives for team

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

  • B.S. in Engineering or established equivalent
  • Minimum 10 years of commercial nuclear industry experience with increasing levels of responsibility; 12 plus year preferred
  • Experience with developing engineering deliverables (Engineering Changes, Item Equivalencies, etc.)
  • Experience with the Industry Standard Design Process (IP-ENG-001) and Standard Item Equivalency Process (NISP-EN-02)
  • Experience with developing Engineering Processes and Procedures using formal commercial nuclear processes
  • Deep understanding of commercial nuclear processes
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems
  • Must be able to pass nuclear background and drug screen

Our Safety Pledge to You:

If you are as committed to your success as we are committed to your safety, then this is the position for you! For us, our guiding principle has always been and will continue to be for the safety of our people. It’s that simple!

Why WECTEC Staffing Services?

Through the ever changing and rapidly evolving contract labor market we continue to employ experienced, highly motivated, and qualified employees with proven track records to meet our clients’ needs. We have expanded our scope of services outside of the nuclear industry to include international contracts in more than five countries. Our dedicated employees’ range in expertise from highly specialized technical niche positions to corporate function positions and we want YOU to be a part of our impressive talent network!


EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability


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