Operations Shift Engineer

Position Overview

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies powering Michigan and communities beyond with clean, renewable energy. As part of our team, you’ll join a company that values safety, wellbeing, and inclusion. In this role, you will provide advisory technical support and advice to the Shift Manager in areas like thermal hydraulics, reactor engineering, and plant analysis to ensure the safe operation of the plant.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as the Shift Technical Advisor, providing technical support and advice to the Shift Manager on conditions affecting safe plant operation.
• May assume the Control Room Supervisor position as necessary.
• Performs routine review, approval, and return to service of maintenance work orders while coordinating activities with maintenance supervision.
• Conducts review, approval, and return to service of surveillance activities, PMs, and routines.
• Coordinates with other departments for scheduled surveillance, PMs, and routine activities.
• Establishes short and long-term objectives for plant control and directs personnel in related departments to coordinate activities per the POD.
• Provides directions to on-shift personnel from Chemistry, Radiation Protection, Maintenance, Engineering, and Security departments to ensure completion of scheduled activities.
• Reviews CARDs generated during the shift and assists in making reportability and operability determinations.
• Observes and evaluates performance against station standards, identifies gaps, and provides coaching and feedback.
• Oversees major plant evolutions, ensuring that complex operations do not jeopardize personnel, equipment, or plant stability.
• Prioritizes Operations’ concerns on the POD and evaluates them for inclusion in the operator work-around list.
• Provides oversight of plant operations to ensure compliance with regulations, Technical Specifications, and administrative controls.
• Acts as a Response team member for unplanned events and prepares detailed reports for senior management.
• Communicates effectively with employees at all levels, both orally and in writing.

Required Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in engineering, engineering technology, or related sciences with 18 months of nuclear experience, OR a High School diploma (or GED) with the requisite operational experience per current INPO ACAD guidelines (including 12 months or more as an active RO/SRO at the appropriate facility).
• Must obtain and maintain a Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• Must meet the eligibility requirements of the current INPO ACAD for a Direct SRO and for a Shift Technical Advisor.
• Completion of an INPO Accredited Shift Technical Advisor Training Program is required.

Additional Qualifications

• Must pass the physical examination as required by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulation 396 ("Certificate of Physical Exam") and Guide 1.134 ("Medical Evaluation of Nuclear Power Plant Personnel Requiring Operator Licenses").