Clearance Writer

Conduct actions required to take equipment off line for repair or replacement (daily and outage duties), including hot work and transient combustible tags/clearances. Conduct required actions to take equipment off line for repair or replacement (daily and outage duties) as per the regulatory requirements, operating policies and principles, nuclear standards for nuclear safety, industrial safety, and environmental protection to ensure overall business and safety performance objectives are achieved.

Activity:
Clearances
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Create equipment clearance documentation, based on planned or requested work, to authorize work in the field for a repair or a replacement.
• Work with control room operations to ensure equipment clearances can be hung in the plant to authorize work by Maintenance (MNT) or other field crews to repair or replace equipment.
• Direct or provide support to Licensed Operators (LOs) on where and how to hang equipment clearance operations in the plant.
• Conduct system walk down and check the status of plant operation to ensure plant configuration control procedures are implemented during release of plant and return to service.
• Review procedures developed by Operations and other departments and provide comments to ensure alignment with regulatory requirements and industry leading operations practices.

Work Control
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Provide support to the Operations work control resources through the entire Work Management (WM) Online and Outage process and milestones.

Continuous Improvement
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Assist with the effective achievement of the organization's objectives by meeting personal targets assigned by the Head of Operations.
• Keep a receptive attitude and act upon formal and informal feedback and mentoring from Operations and Operations Support line management to improve performance and effectiveness.
• Participate in assessments to assist in the continuous improvement of department performance.

Training
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Participate in training to equip necessary technical knowledge and skills and successfully complete all required training courses for Clearance writer.
• Provide training feedback on program effectiveness with evaluation of operator performance to enhance quality of training.

Outage and Emergency Response Organization (ERO) Support
Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Support outage and/or the emergency response organization, as assigned, to ensure safe, reliable and continued operations; this may require shift work/off hours support

The incumbent is expected to perform standard activities as per attachments 4 & 5 in the Job Description procedure (relating to Health, Safety and Environment, Security and Business Continuity, People Management, Excellence and Quality Management

N/A

Minimum
Professional Certifications

Preferred

• Hold or have-held Reactor Operator (RO) license/certification.

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other scientific discipline
• 3 years of relevant experience

Or equivalent as stated in the Job Description Procedure (HR-PRC-0004).

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in in Nuclear Technology or equivalent.
• 6-10 years of experience performing Reactor Operator (RO) level duties on-shift or in an operations support role.