Senior Manager – Design Integration

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

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.

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