Fuel Fabrication Engineer – Global Nuclear Fuel Resident Engineer

Location: Wilmington,North Carolina,United States

TITLE:                  Fuel Fabrication Engineer – Global Nuclear Fuel Resident Engineer

LOCATION:       Wilmington, NC, USA

TerraPower® is a nuclear energy technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At our core, we are 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, 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.

Resident Engineer

The Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) Resident Fuel Fabrication Engineer will provide regular in-person oversight and support for the Natrium fuel fabrication efforts carried out by GNF out of their Wilmington, North Carolina offices.  The resident engineer will report to the Manager of Fuel Supply as part of the Nuclear Fuel and Equipment Qualification department and will help support and coordinate cross functional and multi-disciplinary activities to ready the supply of fuel and non-fuel core assemblies for Natrium.

This position will reside in Wilmington, North Carolina to allow continuous in-person support and collaboration between GNF and TerraPower teams while travel to TerraPower’s Bellevue and Everett offices and other supplier locations would be anticipated.  

The Resident Fuel Fabrication Engineer will support coordination of scope, schedule, and technical integration for commercial fuel manufacturing process development, construction of a fuel fabrication facility for Natrium fuel at GNF’s Wilmington site location, procurement, commissioning and qualification of fuel fabrication equipment, and fabrication and delivery of fuel and non-fuel core assemblies for Natrium.      

The Fuel Supply team is responsible for supply of Natrium fuel including oversight of Primary Project Partner GNF’s fuel fabrication work scope. The Resident Fuel Fabrication Engineer will work with the TerraPower and GNF fuel fabrication teams to support communication, identify and work through roadblocks, align design details, and complete project execution strategies across GNF’s fuel supply scope of work.

The Resident Engineer will work as part of a high performing team of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Provides continuous oversight of GNF’s fuel activities scope of work for Natrium project

• Functions as a direct and immediate conduit of communication to facilitate continued progression of fuel fabrication activities.

• Travels to TerraPower’s Bellevue, WA and/or Everett offices to meet with key stakeholders.

• Supports TerraPower’s fuel supply team by facilitating good communication between TerraPower and GNF stakeholders and managers.

• Supports TerraPower’s GNF Project Manager by resolving/clarifying scope and schedule issues and coordinating with the TerraPower fuel supply team.

• Supports alignment between GNF and TerraPower on technical issues, Natrium procedures, fuel fabrication facility design strategies, and implementation of licensing strategy.

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