Civil/Structural Design Engineer Senior - Nuclear

Job Title: Civil/Structural Design Engineer Sr- Nuclear

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI 

Job Summary / Purpose 

The Senior / Senior Lead Civil‑Structural Design Engineer provides high‑level technical leadership within a commercial nuclear power plant environment, resolving complex issues involving civil, structural, piping, and environmental engineering. This position serves as a primary technical interface between Engineering, Maintenance, and Operations, ensuring nuclear safety, regulatory compliance, structural integrity, and long‑term configuration control of safety‑related and non‑safety‑related plant systems.

Senior and Senior Lead candidates are expected to demonstrate deep technical proficiency, strong familiarity with nuclear plant processes, and the ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering efforts supporting plant reliability, design basis maintenance, outage execution, and emergent issue resolution.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads and supports Maintenance, Operations, and site organizations in resolving complex issues involving nuclear plant civil structures, safety‑related components, piping systems, environmental conditions, and equipment reliability.
• Applies advanced civil, structural, and environmental engineering principles to analyze reinforced concrete, steel structures, seismic considerations, soil‑structure interaction, safety‑related supports, drainage systems, and other environmental factors impacting nuclear plant structural integrity.
• Maintains required training and supports Emergency Response Organization (ERO) responsibilities consistent with nuclear emergency planning requirements.
• Provides senior‑level guidance for cost‑effective structural and piping maintenance activities that comply with nuclear regulatory requirements, licensing bases, and plant procedures.
• Authors, reviews, and approves engineering changes—including civil/structural modifications, piping analyses, temporary supports, environmental corrective actions, and maintenance activities—ensuring compliance with 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, the plant’s licensing basis, ASME and AISC code, and configuration control procedures.
• Leads project planning and prioritization efforts for major design modifications, capital projects, and long‑term structural improvements within a nuclear operating environment.
• Implements corrective actions and leads engineering analysis for issues involving design basis discrepancies, degraded structural conditions, or equipment reliability events.
• Develops high‑quality engineering deliverables (technical evaluations, structural calculations, piping analyses, environmental assessments, design packages) following nuclear codes, industry standards, and station procedures.
• Serves as a senior technical representative on outage engineering teams, supporting refueling outages, forced outages, and critical online system evolutions with civil/structural expertise.
• Maintains all training and qualifications required for nuclear design engineering and provides mentorship to junior personnel on nuclear plant processes, regulatory expectations, and technical fundamentals.

Minimum Requirements 

Minimum education required

B.S. Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Environmental Engineering, or other engineering degree generally associated with power plant operations in the field of civil and structural design, environmental compliance, or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required

• Sr. Engineer: 4–5 years experience in nuclear design, operations, or equivalent
• Sr. Lead: 6+ years experience in nuclear design, operations, or equivalent, depending on evaluation of past positions

Preferred Experience 

• Strong preference for candidates with 10+ years of civil, structural, or piping engineering experience in nuclear or highly regulated power/industrial environments.

Primary Location: Arkansas-Russellville Arkansas : Russellville 
Job Function: Engineering
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 2
Req ID: 123506
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.