TITLE:                  Senior Manager – Design Integration

LOCATION:          Bellevue, WA, USA       

 TerraPower® is a nuclear energy technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At our core, we are working to raise living standards globally. The essential factor? Energy. In 2006, the company originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment.  TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. TerraPower is committed to bringing sustainable, affordable and safe energy to address global issues. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Senior Manager – Design Integration

The Sr. Manager – Design Integration reports directly to the Director of Design Integration, and provides technical, strategic and organizational leadership to the Design Integration and Production groups and across the Natrium Engineering Departments.  The primary focus of this role is to lead managers/groups providing technical direction and coordination to teams working plant design integration, licensing integration, plant maintenance and operational design integration and plant design products. In this role, you will manage and support engineering teams, as delegated to by the Director of Design Integration, for certain activities and responsibilities for TerraPower’s advanced nuclear reactor projects. The successful candidate will lead and facilitate integration across organizations to maintain alignment between SSC design, analyses, and licensing efforts in support of licensing TerraPower reactors. This role will work as part of a high-performing team of leaders, engineers and scientists.

Responsibilities

•    Provide technical leadership, oversight, and coordination to teams of integration engineers, focused on integrated plant design.

•    Lead individuals coordinating between project analysis, licensing, and SSC design teams to provide plant level integration for application of complex licensing strategies.

•    Develop Plant level subject matter expertise for application of the Licensing Modernization Project (NEI 18-04)

•    Provide strategic and technical leadership for cross cutting, high leverage plant trade studies, strategies, and design decisions.

•    Ensure technical quality and consistency across design products produced by the Design Integration group. 

•    Provide technical and plant integration reviews of key project design documents

•    Provide technical leadership and oversight over plant discipline design criteria, and integrate design criteria with applicable SSC design teams

•    Interface with and support licensing activities associated with Safety Analysis Reports.

•    Support design reviews as plant system and subsystem designs are established and refined.

•    Interface with regulators, stakeholders, and customers regarding Plant Architecture and programmatic issues and concerns.

•    Assist in developing the engineering staffing plan for the discipline using input from the project. Assist in the recruitment, onboarding, and indoctrination of new discipline engineers within Plant Architecture teams.

•    Assist in resolving priority conflicts in conjunction with the projects when issues arise that compete for resources. 

•    Support employee development through mentoring, training, and challenging assignments within the specific program engineering efforts as assigned.

•    Collaborate with procedures and configuration management teams in the development, maintenance, and use of discipline guidelines (e.g., design criteria, guides, desktop instructions, design notes).

•    Perform self-assessments of work processes and technical adequacy.

•    Inspect and provide oversight of technical tasks deliverable within project and discipline areas or responsibility.

•    Ensure that work process execution and technical adequacy within the group scope are in accordance with contract requirements, project standards, and industry standards.

•    Demonstrate visible, continuous leadership in the areas of safety and quality, while also promoting schedule adherence and execution.

•    Identify improvement opportunities and cause work process changes to be initiated and expedited.

•    Mentor/coach less experienced engineers and dedicate time and efforts toward growing talents.

•    Interface with TerraPower partner design teams, as appropriate.

 Key Qualifications and Skills

•    B.S. degree in Engineering required, preferably Mechanical, Structural, Nuclear, or Electrical Engineering or related discipline from an accredited university and 10+ years direct experience with nuclear design; additionally, at least 5 years in a technical leadership role and other management responsibilities and experience is required.

•    Demonstrated experience in the design of complex systems, structures, and equipment in a nuclear application.

•    Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership in a highly technical, commercial nuclear quality design environment

•    Experience with safety analyses and probabilistic risk analyses in a nuclear application.

•    Prior experience with design and licensing requirements for commercial nuclear plant designs (e.g., Existing light water reactors, U.S. Navy Nuclear Program or other advanced reactor design such as SMR).

•    Experience in multi-discipline and multi-organization design integration required.

•    Previous experience with nuclear reactors, nuclear handling process systems, or similar high-performance systems or equipment design. 

•    Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.

•    Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence.

•    Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate and lead a design team’s effort with minimal direction.

•    Ability to handle projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives.

•    Ability to lead and manage simultaneous tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach.

•    Experience working to quality standards on design activities, such as ASME NQA-1 or ISO 9001.

•    The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.

•    Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.

Job Functions

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position.  These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job, which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation.  Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations.  An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

•    Motor Abilities: Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)

•    Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 20 pounds

•    Repetitive work: Prolonged

•    Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work

•    Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standing and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day

•    Travel required  0-5%

TerraPower’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.

Job details

Salary Range Level 13:  $194,197 -  $279,158

 *Typically, our employee salaries are within .90 – 1.0 of the mid-point of the posted salary band. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual’s qualifications and experience.  This range is specific to Washington State.

Job Type:  Full-time

Benefits:

•    Competitive Compensation

•    Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments

•    Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits

•  Medical

•  Vision

•  Dental

•  Life

•  Life and Disability

•  Gender Affirmation Benefits

•  Parental Leave

•    401k Plan

•    Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)

•  21 days of annually accrued PTO

•    Generous Holiday Schedule

•  10 paid holidays

•    Relocation Assistance

•    Professional and Educational Support Opportunities

•    Flexible Work Schedule

 

 TerraPower Career and Benefits information:  https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/

 

Please visit www.terrapower.com to apply