Senior Director, Power Plant Engineering

The role

The Senior Director of Power Plant Engineering provides strategic leadership and oversight for the Plant Engineering department. This role is accountable for the technical adequacy, maturity, integration, and execution of designs produced by the organization.

What you will do

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the Plant Engineering department
• Establish technical direction and maintain engineering standards
• Ensure system and discipline designs satisfy requirements, codes, and standards
• Identify, document, and manage design assumptions, margins, and technical risks
• Make or approve technical decisions and accept technical risk
• Hold senior technical leaders accountable for technical quality and timeliness
• Resolve technical disagreements across system or discipline boundaries
• Provide technical inputs to plant layout, procurement, construction, and operations
• Maintain visibility of significant technical risks and decisions across the organization
• Ensure the integrity and controlled evolution of the plant design and technical baseline

Required qualifications

• B.S. or M.S degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• 20+ years of engineering experience supporting nuclear power generation, nuclear design, analysis, licensing, construction, or plant operations
• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including managing large, multidisciplinary engineering organizations of 100 or more employees
• Prior experience serving as a Chief Engineer, Design Authority, Engineering Director or comparable senior technical leadership capacity
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more core engineering disciplines including Mechanical, Civil/Structural, Nuclear, or other disciplines relevant to nuclear power plant design
• Demonstrated experience applying design control, configuration management, and technical baseline management principles within a complex nuclear or similarly regulated engineering environment
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and how they interact with design and operations, quality assurance programs, and design control processes
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering projects through multiple stages of design maturity
• Demonstrated success holding senior engineering leaders and organizations accountable for technical quality across multiple geographic locations

Nice to have

• Experience with first-of-a-kind technologies or programs involving significant technical uncertainty, evolving requirements, and development organizational capability

Benefits

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