Nuclear Material Control and Accountability Engineer

Location: Idaho Falls, ID

Schedule: Full Time

Standard Nuclear is fueling America’s nuclear renaissance at industrial scale. Our mission is to deliver the essential building blocks of nuclear power—enabling cost-effective, safe, and secure energy for the world.

FUNCTION

The NMCA Engineer is responsible for supporting Standard Nuclear’s Nuclear Material Control and Accountability program across fuel production, laboratory, storage, and material handling operations. This role ensures that nuclear material is accurately tracked, controlled, measured, reported, and managed in compliance with applicable regulatory and site requirements.

This is a technical role that combines nuclear material accounting, safeguards implementation, data analysis, process integration, and regulatory documentation. The NMCA Engineer works closely with operations, engineering, quality, security, licensing, and EH&S teams to ensure material control requirements are integrated into facility processes and maintained as operations scale.

The role requires strong attention to detail, technical judgment, and the ability to work with complex material balances, inventory systems, measurement data, procedures, and compliance records in a regulated nuclear manufacturing environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Nuclear Material Control & Accountability

• Maintain accurate records of nuclear material receipt, movement, use, storage, transfer, and disposition

• Support implementation of material control practices for nuclear material in production, laboratory, and storage areas

• Conduct and support physical inventories, material reconciliations, and inventory difference evaluations

• Maintain traceability of nuclear material across processes, containers, locations, and records

• Support development and implementation of material balance areas, item control areas, and related accountability controls

Material Accounting Systems & Data Analysis

• Develop, maintain, and improve nuclear material accounting records, databases, and tracking systems

• Analyze material transactions, measurement data, inventory changes, and process losses to support accurate material balances

• Identify discrepancies, trends, or abnormal conditions and support investigation and resolution

• Support development of dashboards, reports, and tools to improve visibility into NMCA performance

• Ensure data integrity, completeness, and consistency across NMCA records and related systems

Safeguards, Controls & Compliance

• Support implementation of safeguards controls, including access controls, tamper-indicating devices, seals, surveillance practices, and controlled storage requirements

• Ensure NMCA activities comply with applicable NRC, DOE, and site-specific requirements

• Support preparation of required regulatory reports, inventory reports, and material transaction documentation

• Maintain inspection-ready records and support internal audits, regulatory inspections, and assessments

• Assist with corrective actions related to NMCA findings, discrepancies, or program improvements

Measurement, Verification & Technical Support

• Support measurement and verification activities for nuclear material, including coordination with analytical, metrology, and non-destructive assay methods where applicable

• Evaluate measurement uncertainty, data quality, and measurement system performance as it relates to material accountability

• Work with engineering and operations teams to understand process flows, material transformations, and points of material control

• Support development of procedures and technical bases for material measurement, sampling, inventory, and reconciliation activities

Cross-Functional Integration

• Work with engineering, operations, quality, security, licensing, and EH&S teams to integrate NMCA requirements into facility operations

• Review procedures, drawings, workflows, and process changes for NMCA impact

• Support work planning for activities involving nuclear material handling, movement, or storage

• Communicate NMCA requirements, risks, and corrective actions c