Licensing Consultant

Title: Licensing Consultant

Location: Richland, WA 

Duration: 1 year with potential to extend 

Rate: $85-92/hr

Job Description:

This position is responsible for developing strategic approaches to Licensing and Environmental activities in order to help achieve organizational goals for new nuclear development. This position will provide technical advice and proactive counsel to management on a wide range of complex licensing, environmental and other regulatory issues, interpretation and verification of industry guidance, and regulatory requirements for application to project-specific issues.

Principal Accountabilities:

Provide consultation to Energy Services & Development (ES&D) management to assure nuclear safety, licensing, and regulatory issues are identified, addressed, and resolved.

Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to ES&D management on matters affecting regulatory and environmental project performance.

Represent company with applicable regulators, industry work groups, workshops, and conferences.

Understanding EN’s Environmental Review needs which may include the conduct of field and onsite visits as needed.

Collaborating with a team of experts in licensing and environmental laws to support discussion and resolution of licensing/environmental process issues.

Keeping ES&D management apprised of latest licensing and environmental policies, rules, and standards that may need to be followed.

Required Education & Experience:

Requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Education, Business or Behavioral Sciences, Science, or related field from an accredited college or university and 15 years supervisory or management experience in a nuclear power plant in a Licensing or Environmental role and 5 years in a supervisory role.

Desired Education & Experience:

SRO/RO License or certification

Previous experience as a manager in Licensing and/or Environmental at a nuclear power plant.

Required Abilities & Skills:

Must have excellent oral and written communication skills. Capable of conducting meetings with executive level management, including regulatory management, on a professional level. Clearly capable of conducting technical meetings and maintaining a professional relationship with regulatory agencies.

Ability to work well with others in closely linked roles to achieve mutual goals, to reach a consensus among dissenting opinions, and insight on when to stand firm when faced with opposition.

Ability to manage in a highly stressful, time constraining, regulatory environment.

Required knowledge includes:

• Understanding of Licensing and Environmental regulations pertaining to a nuclear facility.

• Knowledge of self-assessment and benchmarking practices within the commercial nuclear power industry.

Desired Abilities & Skills:

Be able to analyze the impact of decisions by taking a systematic, long range/big picture approach to problem solving, with a strong and analytical focus on planning; have a thorough understanding of the interdependence of parts of the organization and importance of them functioning together; to anticipate future events, do risk analysis and have contingencies in place. Be able to weigh alternative courses of action, make decisions that reflect factual information and are based upon rational and logical assumptions, render judgments, act and commit oneself.