The OpportunityPosition: Engineer/Analyst (Fitness-for-Service & Component Analysis)
Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON) / 393 University Avenue, Toronto ON
Department: Materials and Major Components
Reports to: Section Manager
Hours per week: 37.5
Number Required: 1
Salary Range: $120,000 - $145,000 Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.
What We OfferAt Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver's seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.
- Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
- Growth: To keep pace with Canada's expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
- Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
- Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
- Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.
Accountabilities: How You Will Make an ImpactWe are seeking an engineer to fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Work in small cross-functional teams to develop enhanced methodologies for solving structural integrity problems for clients
- Perform stress analysis using finite element methods, including non-linear analysis and dynamic analysis of piping, vessels, and equipment
- Lead and perform advanced fitness-for-service and fracture mechanics assessments for degraded piping, pressure vessels, and nuclear components
- Carry out ASME Code analyses, including Class 1 analysis of piping and components using computer tools and classical methods
- Develop and maintain computer programs to drive analysis work
- Prepare technical analysis reports and documentation
What You Need to Succeed- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Engineering Science, or equivalent is required.
- Graduate-level studies (Master's or PhD) in one of the specialty areas is preferred.
- 3 to 6 years of relevant experience; however exceptions can be made for highly qualified candidates
- P. Eng designation or actively pursuing
- ASME Appendix XXIII qualification is an asset
- OPG and Bruce Power Security Clearance is an asset
Technical Knowledge and Experience:
- Strong understanding and foundation in classical solid mechanics
- Familiarity with the design principles of vessels, piping, and supportsStrong understanding of CANDU design, including reactor structures, feeders, primary heat transport (PHT) piping, and supports
- Experience in flaw/defect acceptance evaluation, Level 2/3 FFS; using fracture mechanics approaches including J-integral
- Fatigue and crack growth calculation under cyclic and thermal loading
- Demonstrated experience in applying codes and standards including ASME Section III, CSA N285, CSA N289.3, B31.1, ASME FFS / API579, ASME Section VIII, ASME Section XI
- Experience in welding procedures qualification and applications
- Familiarity with NDE technology and principles of inspection requirements
- Demonstrated past examples of successful large-scale engineering simulations using advanced/novel computer technology
Engineering Tools Skillset
- In-depth experience using finite element software including ANSYS and ABAQUS
- Advanced computer programming skills and knowledge, with experience using ANSYS APDL, Python, Matlab, Visual Basic, C++, and others
- Experience using piping analysis programs including AutoPIPE, PIPESTRESS, and CAESAR II
Other Competencies
- Project management experience will be an asset
- Experience providing urgent operational support to clients and performing analysis under production pressure
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrates accountability and ownership of work
- Thrives working as part of a team
- Willingness to adapt and learn new areas of expertise as dictated by business needs
This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.
