Department · IAEA GSR Part 2
Engineering
Scope
Technical standards, discipline competence, engineering processes, and the technical authority / subject matter expert framework. Engineering's job is to make sure that what is designed, modified or specified is technically sound — and that the people doing that work are competent to do it.
Out of scope
Operations, Maintenance and HSSE — these are separate functions with their own mappings. Engineering provides standards and assurance into those functions; it does not execute their work.
The reframing
"'Engineering = drawings and standards' thinking doesn't survive contact with the framework. If Engineering can name owners across all ten elements, the function is operating as a system, not a service. If two or three elements have no Engineering owner, that absence is the audit finding the organisation has not yet had."
Footprint across the framework
E01
Achieving the fundamental safety objective
1 document: Nuclear Safety and Engineering Policy
1 docs →
E03
Responsibility of senior management for the management system
1 document: Design Authority Arrangements
1 docs →
E07
Application of the graded approach to the management system
3 documents: Modification Safety Categorisation Standard · Safety Classification of Structures, Systems and Components · Seismic Qualification Standard
3 docs →
E08
Documentation of the management system
3 documents: Configuration Management Procedure · Engineering Design Standards Register · Site Plans, Designs and Specifications Register
3 docs →
E09
Provision of resources
1 document: Engineering Competence and SQEP Framework
1 docs →
E10
Management of processes and activities
20 documents: Plant Maintenance Schedule · In-service Inspection Programme · Ageing Management Programme · Pressure Systems Written Scheme of Examination …
20 docs →
Where Engineering pivots into other departments
→ Operations & MaintenanceHandover, integrity execution, deviation acceptance
→ CommercialContractor technical assurance, vendor specifications