Senior Manager, Plant Design Integration

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary 

Kairos Power is seeking a results-driven Senior Manager, Plant Design Integration with deep expertise in plant design and proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams. Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering Integration, you will play a pivotal role in translating strategic direction into integrated programs and organizational practices, ensuring that multidisciplinary teams deliver at scale with consistency, quality, and efficiency. 

As a Senior Manager, you will lead multiple teams – including Plant Layout and Process Design teams, while closely partnering with Piping Design and Analysis – ensuring seamless integration across disciples. You will be accountable for driving program execution, building organizational capability, and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation and safety.

Responsibilities 

• Drive execution of strategic direction through integrated engineering roadmaps, programs, and workflows; oversee execution across multiple complex design projects with a focus on consistency, quality, and delivery. 

• Lead, mentor, and develop managers and technical leads, ensuring that multidisciplinary teams are aligned, resourced, and performing at a high level while actively promoting Kairos Power’s engineering values and culture.   

• Establish and enforce plant design integration standards, tools, and processes to ensure reliable, scalable, and efficient execution across all projects. 

• Identify and address program-level risks, conflicts, and bottlenecks early; resolve execution challenges and provide actionable insights to leadership for strategic decisions. 

• Build organizational capability by growing engineering talent; coach managers to strengthen leadership depth within the organization. 

• Drive effective collaboration across Plant Layout, Process Design, Piping, Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation functions to achieve integrated outcomes. 

• Champion continuous improvement, adoption of advanced design tools, and process innovations that enhance efficiency and technical quality. 

• Provide leadership with data-driven recommendations on program performance, resource needs, and prioritization tradeoffs to support strategic decision-making. 
• Performing administrative tasks as required. 

Qualifications 

• Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in either mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, drafting and design, chemical engineering, or other related design discipline.  

• 12+ years of experience in plant or process plant design facilities, such as refineries, chemical, petrochemical facilities, clean tech industries, or nuclear. 

• 7+ years of leadership experience, including managing managers and scaling multidisciplinary engineering organizations.  

• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale design projects, with exceptional communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills.  

• Hands-on experience with 3D plant design and modeling software (e.g., AVEVA PDMS/E3D, SmartPlant 3D, AutoCAD Plant 3D, Navisworks) and plant simulation tools (e.g., APROS or other simulation platform). 

• Experience designing with high-temperature molten salt or other high-temperature fluid systems is highly desired. 
• Familiar with the application and scope of ASME B31.