Law Clerk x Paralegal

Darlington Nuclear has a mature Flow Accelerated Corrosion (FAC) program, employing the CHECWORKSTM code software to analyze and predict pipe wall thinning rates due to FAC.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Technical support for the Pipe Wall Thinning Program (FAC and MIC).
• Identify FAC and MIC outage (replacement and/or inspections) scope.
• Identify MIC IOP scope (repair, replacement and/or inspections).
• Track online/outage inspection scope activities for FAC and MIC.
• Assist with the review, verification, and dispositioning of online/outage inspection results, including corrosion rate calculations and design engineering dispositions.
• Model additional piping as required and update the Susceptibility Analysis document.
• Perform Pass-2 analysis following outages to identify critical locations for subsequent outage inspections.
• Update CheckworksTM unit chemistry analysis for outage inspections.
• Provide guidance to AIM inspection staff, Civil Maintenance, and Work Control as needed.
• Assist Plant Design in dispositioning low wall thicknesses below critical values for High and Low Energy piping.
• Disposition related OPEX at Darlington and provide technical expertise as required.
• Assist with providing adequate outage coverage with client staff.
• Liaise with outage and AIM personnel (AIM is OPG internal inspection department).
• Help prepare post-outage reports for High and Low Energy Piping Inspection Campaign.
• Support MIC IOP inspections.
• Prepare PWT Program Health Report for FAC and MIC.
• Prepare MIC IOP inspection report.
• Prepare yearly MIC Visual Inspection Reports at DNGS under AR.
• Perform online walkdowns as required.
• Update Susceptibility Analysis.
• Provide general technical support related to the Darlington Nuclear Pipe Wall Thinning program and support dispositioning OPEX, addressing ARs, and audits.
• Review and verification of future outage scopes.
• Provide vacation coverage when required.
• Offer general expert advice and mentoring.
• CHECWORKSTM software support.
• Participate in Peer team Review meetings on behalf of Darlington.
• Participate in SWAP or COG working group meetings (USA or Canada).
• Update DNGS Unit 1, 2, 3 & 4 FAC and MIC Susceptibility, System, and Global Analyses documents as required.
• Perform and document engineering evaluations of any negative time-to-Teri! remaining on Units 1, 2, 3 & 4 following completion of outage campaigns.
• Support DNGS Assessment PWT related scope.
• Review Technical Basis and Inspection History.
• Support on-demand emergency review documents.
• Apply OPEX and outage lessons learned to DNGS PWT Program assessment.
• Complete OPG PWT CBTs training.
• Perform Industry driven Self Assessments as required for FAC/MIC.
• Present yearly to Senior Management at Plant Health on Program Status (MIC Health Report).
• Perform other duties as required.
• Prepare future years' inspection campaigns (e.g., 2026 Inspection Campaign was prepared in November 2023) to align with Cycle Plan Work Control procedures.
• Raise Station Condition Record and pipe inspection/replacement Work Requests as required.
• Write AIOT (Asset Investment Options Template) for potential future projects.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must be qualified to employ CHECWORKSTM software for the analysis of inspection results.
• Must have performed pipe wall thinning analyses using CHECWORKSTM software for at least two consecutive inspection campaigns at a power utility and possess at least 10 years of FAC analytical experience as a recognized industry expert in FAC.
• Must have a thorough knowledge of Darlington NGS systems and components, including historical problem areas.
• Must be able to provide training in modeling of systems using CHECWORKSTM software.
• Must use, but not limited to, our Client’s QA program, AS9, Outage, and Online Work Control processes to complete the work.
• Must be capable of obtaining Nuclear Security clearance for the Darlington site.
• Must be capable of being Orange-2 Radiation Protection qualified at Darlington.
• Must be capable of meeting and sustaining our client’s qualification in Pipe Wall Thinning as well as other engineering qualifications required to conduct engineering duties at the station.