Senior Operations Specialist, Salt Production Facility

The role

The Senior Operations Specialist serves as a senior technical resource supporting plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and transition to routine operations. This person provides operational judgment to ensure plant systems and equipment can be safely and effectively operated and maintained.

What you will do

• Serve as the Operations group technical specialist for plant design, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Review engineering designs for operability and commissioning readiness.
• Identify plant designs that may be difficult or unsafe to operate and work with Engineering to develop alternatives.
• Recommend improvements to equipment arrangement, routing, and design features.
• Represent Operations during equipment fabrication, construction, installation, testing, and acceptance.
• Participate in field verification and validation of operating and commissioning procedures.
• Capture and incorporate commissioning, startup, and operating lessons learned into procedures and design.
• Support verification that required operating procedures and technical documentation are available for turnover.
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing, Site Acceptance Testing, and field inspections.
• Identify, document, and drive resolution of construction and installation deficiencies.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in operations, commissioning, startup, maintenance, or technical support of complex industrial process facilities.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the construction, commissioning, startup, or operation of newly constructed or significantly modified industrial facilities.
• Experience coordinating or supporting system turnover and operational readiness activities.
• Experience interpreting engineering drawings, P&IDs, equipment documentation, and technical specifications.
• Experience providing technical guidance to operations or commissioning personnel.
• Experience reviewing engineering designs from an operational and field-execution perspective.
• Experience developing or executing commissioning plans, startup plans, operating procedures, test packages, or system turnover documentation.
• Experience participating in equipment inspection, FAT, SAT, construction walkdowns, punch listing, system turnover, or acceptance activities.
• Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, and other project stakeholders.
• Knowledge of industrial piping systems, valves, rotating and fixed equipment, utility systems, instrumentation, and process control systems.
• Strong knowledge of industrial plant operations, commissioning, startup, and system turnover principles.
• Ability to handle Beryllium (Be).

Nice to have

• Experience in facilities involving hazardous materials, complex chemical processes, high-temperature systems, or comparable industrial hazards
• Experience supporting PSSR, PHA/HAZOP, MOC, operational readiness, or comparable process-safety activities

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Before you apply

• You need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information
• Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list are not permitted to work in the facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export

About the company

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR).