Director of Mechanical Engineering, Numenor (Reactor)

The role

The Director of Mechanical Engineering will build and lead the mechanical engineering organization for the reactor program. This role covers mechanically dominated systems including the reactor, control rods, helium pressure boundary, helium services, HVAC, and Citadel.

What you will do

• Own the mechanical design basis for the reactor, helium loop, cavity cooling, helium services, and plant modules
• Make final technical calls on design acceptability, margins, materials and code selection
• Run design reviews and gate decisions from concept through design freeze
• Take designs to hardware through procurement, factory build, assembly and integrated testing
• Set test and verification strategy and support commissioning
• Design for manufacture and repeatability
• Build, lead and mentor the mechanical organization of engineering managers and system REs
• Manage scope, schedule and budget for mechanical within the reactor program
• Lead mechanical team structure and staffing as the program scales
• Work closely with systems engineering, safety, IC&E, quality and supply chain

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of mechanical engineering on complex hardware, such as pressure systems, heat transfer equipment, mechanisms or large structures
• Hands-on experience as the technical authority who signs off designs, sets margins and owns design decisions
• Led mechanical scope on first-of-a-kind hardware from concept through build, test and commissioning
• Strong base in stress analysis, thermal design, materials and pressure vessel and piping codes
• Experience in managing mechanical engineering teams, including managers, and key vendor relationships across multiple project phases

Nice to have

• Experience with high-temperature, high-pressure systems, such as pressure vessels, heat exchangers and piping
• Hardware delivery: first-of-a-kind hardware taken from design through build and test, in aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, or defense
• Helium or other gas systems, including sealing, leak tightness and rotating equipment
• Precision mechanisms and actuators, plus the qualification testing that goes with them
• Working knowledge of ASME pressure vessel and piping codes (Section VIII, B31.3)
• Design for manufacture and scaling from prototype to series production
• Nuclear industry experience: commercial, defense or national laboratory
• PE license (Mechanical)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)

About the company

Valar Atomics aims to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. Their first pilot plant will be in Orangeville, Utah.