Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety Culture & Employee Concerns

Location: Everett,Washington,United States

Title:  Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety Culture and Employee Concerns Program

Location:  Everett, WA (with required travel to other TerraPower sites)

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower 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. 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.

Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety Culture & Employee

TerraPower is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager, Nuclear Safety Culture & Employee Concerns Program to lead and oversee initiatives that foster a strong safety culture and a robust employee concerns program within our organization. This position reports to the Senior Vice President of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. This role is critical in ensuring that TerraPower maintains the highest safety standards in alignment with regulatory requirements and industry’s best practices.

The Senior Manager will work closely with leadership, employees, and stakeholders to promote an open environment where safety issues and employee concerns can be raised, addressed, and resolved in a timely and effective manner. The role requires on-site presence to engage directly with teams across TerraPower’s laboratory, facilities, and offices.

Responsibilities:

•    Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of TerraPower’s Nuclear Safety Culture (NSC) Program and Employee Concerns Program (ECP).

•    Serve as the primary point of contact for nuclear safety culture and employee concerns, ensuring a transparent, responsive, and supportive process.

•    Establish and maintain processes for confidential reporting, tracking, and resolution of nuclear safety culture concerns and ECP program concerns.

•    Collaborate with senior leadership and management teams to embed INPO Traits of a Healthy Nuclear Safety Culture into operational and organizational practices.

•    Conduct safety culture assessments, surveys, and independent reviews to gauge effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.

•    Provide training and awareness programs for employees at all levels on nuclear safety culture and employee concerns processes.

•    Interface with regulatory bodies, industry peers, and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with NRC, DOE, and other applicable regulations.

•    Develop and deliver reports, presentations, and briefings on program effectiveness, trends, and key issues to leadership and governing bodies.

•    Work in coordination with HR, legal, compliance, and safety teams to resolve concerns in an equitable and timely manner.

•    Maintain up-to-date knowledge of best practices in nuclear safety culture and employee engagement.

•    Manage daily operations, attraction, management, development and retention of team staff, ensuring resources are allocated based on project, state, and federal requirements.

•    Must maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that fosters good relations with customers, partners, suppliers, co-workers, and management.

•    Identify gaps in the existing training program content and material and utilize metrics to find trends and areas for improvement.

•    Proactively research and develop new techniques and methodologies to enhance effectiveness of programs.

•    Must be willing and able to travel to TerraPower Locations for on site observation and consulting on program matters

•    Other duties as assigned.

Key Qualifications and Skills

•    4 Year degree or higher in engineering or scientific discipline or equivalent ex