Petra Balla

• Supervising the conditions of the safe operation regarding new and ongoing R&D projects
• Risk and hazard assessments (HAZOP, FMEA) regarding new researches
• Incident and accident management regarding all Linde Technologies sites – including root cause analysis, justification of CAPAs, lessons learned
• Quality Management regarding lab equipment and tools
• Keeping contact with contractors and suppliers.

• Load Manager: Responsible for the implementation of the load changes of the New Buildings (designed as per the UK context), monitoring the load evolution. Assessing load cases, providing engineering judgement on the acceptance of a load elevation. Keeping contact with the suppliers and the client, managing the design change implementations, liaising with other disciplines. Authoring and issuing load reports, load study notes, substantiation reports, assessments.
• Design change Management: Managing and tracking the design changes and open points in the company internal tools as pilot/contributor. Providing contribution regarding nuclear safety related topics. Authoring engineering substantiation documentations.
• Project Manager: Management of batch deliveries including reports, calculations, drawings. Reviewing design packages including structural calculations, reinforcement models and drawings, feasibility studies and other related documents. Liaising with the suppliers, contractor, designers and the client, harmonizing their needs to find technical solutions collaboratively. Leading collaborative meetings, writing MOMs. Actively developing the safety management within the design management process, following and improving the company’s nuclear safety culture.

• Leader of the License Summary Statement (LSS) production team: Distributing the LSS topic to the relevant person/team. Coordination of the LSS drafting, developing teams for LSS authorization. Contract management, budget creation and competency assessment. Leading the LSS production meetings, managing the drafting process. Liaising with the client regarding their needs, reporting to the client.
• Technical Lead/Project manager: Technical lead of testing two types of a fire insulation. Keeping contact with the client and test facilities, monitoring their progress, leading technical meetings, reviewing the test procedures, assessing the measurement results, authoring final reports to the client.
• Nuclear Safety Categorizer: Assessing the Non Conformance Reports (NCR) and Design Changes (DC) – related to the field of Civil, Mechanical, I&C - regarding their effects on the nuclear safety margins as a member of the Categorizer Pool. Creating HAZOP and FMEA fault identification studies, carrying out qualitative and quantitative hazard assessment. Establishing the right nuclear safety category. Liaising with the Pool members and the Quality Management Leads (QML) from the Licensee.
• Technical Writer / Author of License Summary Statements (LSS): LSS is a nuclear safety report/safety case regarding design changes or non conformance reports including Technical assessment, Nuclear Safety Justification, ALARP Assessment, Nuclear Safety Categorization (HAZOP/FMEA analysis), Risk Assessment. Presenting the content in front of the decision making committee.
• Issue Resolution Project Engineer: Participating of the HPC Licensee’s Issue Resolution Team as an embedded source. Working directly with the client in the Issue Resolution Zero Fibre project, the aim was to eliminate any fibrous material from the reactor building and to replace it with new solutions. Drafting the safety case. Risk assessment, technical documentation/reporting, organization of material and equipment tests.
• Quality engineer: Working with welding non-conformances, assessing them from nuclear engineer point of view. Familiarity with the BTS and RCC-M standards, completed RCC-M training. Involved in the welding non-conformance analyses of the Polar Crane, UDG tanks, EDG tanks.

• Review and acceptance of the design documentation (technical descriptions, drawings and the nuclear safety case (e.g. nuclear assessments, HAZARD and HAZOP studies) prior to licensing
• Giving advice for necessary modifications before issuance
• Qualitative and quantitative assessment of the documentation, which included:
• Checking the compliance with the International Safety Codes (IAEA Standards)
• Checking the compliance with the national nuclear, engineering and construction related regulations and guides
• Checking the compliance with the professional safety standards (e.g. Eurocode series, ASME).
• Checking the overall nuclear safety requirements, including nuclear safety culture and safety management.

• Regulatory oversight of nuclear facilities with respect to architectures and structures
• Civil, structural and geotechnical engineering related onsite inspections
• Regulatory oversight of the nuclear safety culture, the management system of the nuclear Licencees, reviewing safety management arrangements
• Licensing and categorisation related to the operating Paks Nuclear Power Plant as well as the Paks II nuclear new build project
• Responsibility: Review and judgment of design documentation (technical descriptions, drawings, nuclear reports), judging and issuing construction permits
• Lead of the registration assessment group of Hungarian architectural-technical professionals after project managing and authoring the registration process
• Author- and editorship of execution instructions and guidance (in Hungarian and English) and the related regulations regarding the registration process
• Attended workshops and trainings at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna:
• Drafting regulation workshops (to harmonize the international and national standards) Good national regulation and comprehensive IAEA standard knowledge was requested from the participants
• Waste management workshops (very low and low level waste repositories, deep surface repositories, waste handling)
• General inspector trainings
• Completed the Inspector Exam at the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority – Senior Inspector
• Completed the International Inspectors Training (International Atomic Energy Agency, 2018)
• Completed the Paks I
• Official staff training, where I gained comprehensive knowledge on the overall PWR technology, nuclear safety, nuclear safety categorization, processes, structural solutions and requirements.

Instructor in:

· Technical drafting

· Optics

· Biomechatronical modelling and simulation

· Measurement technologies

• Liaising with project participants (Engineers from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, medical professionals from the Orthopedic Clinic of Budapest and Orthopedic technicians from the Salus Medical Devices Company)
• Leading technical meetings, ’translating’ the medical requirements for the engineers
• Authoring technical and progress assessment reports and meeting memos
• Leading research related to the PhD topic: Surface identification for medical applications using Moiré method. Measurement, assessing medical results liaising with the physiotherapist team.

• I took part in design works of post-tensioned concrete structures
• Projects involved:
• Calculating the post-tensioned slabs of the Franz Liszt Airport in Budapest
• Designing the post-tensioning technology and reinforced concrete structures using EC series
• Highway bridge examinations, renovations
• Designing structural reinforcement of bridges
• Designing bridge bearings and dilatation for highway bridges