Operations Engineer

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:    Operations Engineer     

LOCATION:   Bellevue, WA, USA 

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.

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.

Operations Engineer  

The Operations Engineer reports to the Operations Input to Design Manager and is focused on the integrated design of plant structures, systems, and components, and integrated analysis of the facility with a focus on operations and maintenance attributes. In this role, you will act as an Operations Engineer for TerraPower’s advanced nuclear reactor projects or other highly technical projects.  This operations engineer position requires a high potential individual who will focus on operations and maintenance related aspects of the reactors currently being developed, to include Human Factors Engineering (HFE) aspects of the design. The successful candidate will interface with design and systems engineers working on structures, systems, and components, or engineering analysis areas such as safety analysis, thermal analysis, stress analysis, and/or process/control analysis. The Operations Engineer will work as part of a high-performing team of engineers and scientists.

Responsibilities  

•  Responsible for coordinating with a diverse group of design team members to develop supporting design documentation.  The plant design team is composed of TerraPower employees, subcontracted resources, partner organization employees, and customers.

•  Develop, maintain, and refine plant level and system level requirements, specifications, and strategy documents related to plant operations and maintenance activities over the lifecycle of a nuclear facility.

•  Apply operational experience and engineering principles, methods, and tools to enhance the design of nuclear and industrial facilities and their systems and how they are operated.

•  Develop and implement plant operating strategies and human factors engineering attributes into the plant design.

•  Develop and lead efforts to evaluate plant integrated control and transient event responses and provide recommendations/optimizations to deliver efficient plant operational strategies to influence design.

•  Develop and support the development of radioactive material handling activities and controls within the design of engineered systems, including fuel handling activities, radioactive material transfers, remote operations, and other nuclear handling activities.

•  Support the design of the main control room and operator interfaces by reviewing HMI components and identifying plant monitoring requirements.

•  Support design reviews and resolution of cross functional technical concerns as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in nuclear operations and maintenance.

•  Ensure that