Kairos Power
Senior Director, Power Plant Engineering
Alameda, CA · Director
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About the role
- This is a working senior leadership role requiring hands-on technical experience and active engagement.
- The Senior Director establishes technical direction, assigns clear decision authority within the organization, and ensures that consequential engineering decisions have an adequate technical basis and are made by qualified decision-makers.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the Plant Engineering department which includes Reactor Systems, Pebble Handling and Storage Systems, Reactor Coolant Auxiliary Systems, Instrumentation, Control, and Electrical Systems, Nuclear Design and Methods and the Balance of Plant Systems.
- Establish technical direction, maintain engineering standards, and ensure consistent execution of high-quality engineering products in accordance with the Design Control Program and systems engineering practices established by Design Assurance.
- Ensure that system and discipline designs satisfy applicable requirements, codes and standards, safety functions, and are aligned with program objectives.
- Ensure that design assumptions, margins, uncertainties, limitations, and technical risks are identified, documented, communicated, and appropriately managed.
- Ensure that Power Plant Engineering provides technically complete and timely inputs to plant layout, process design, plant design, design analysis, licensing, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operations activities.
- Maintain visibility of significant technical risks, decisions, assumptions, margins, interfaces, and unresolved issues across the organization and ensure they are communicated to affected stakeholders.
- Ensure the integrity and controlled evolution of the plant design and technical baseline, including appropriate incorporation of approved technical decisions and design changes.
- Ensure significant technical decisions, design changes, and issue resolutions are appropriately documented, traceable, and incorporated into affected engineering products and requirements.
- Ensure appropriate technical review and escalation of issues that could materially affect plant safety, licensing basis, design requirements, or overall plant integration.
- Maintain the technical capability and decision-authority structure necessary to support effective engineering execution across the organization.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including managing large, multidisciplinary engineering organizations, typically comprising 100 or more employees.
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and how they interact with design and operations, quality assurance programs, design control processes.
- Experience with first-of-a-kind technologies or programs involving significant technical uncertainty, evolving requirements, and development organizational capability is desired.
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- 20+ years of engineering experience supporting nuclear power generation, nuclear design, analysis, licensing, construction, or plant operations.
- 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, with working knowledge across major nuclear engineering disciplines/workstreams.
- Demonstrated experience applying design control, configuration management, and technical baseline management principles within a complex nuclear or similarly regulated engineering environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering projects through multiple stages of design maturity and making consequential technical decisions.
- Demonstrated success holding senior engineering leaders and organizations accountable for technical quality, ownership, and follow-through across multiple geographic locations.
- Knowledge of nuclear power plant design and operation, including nuclear safety principles, safety classification, defense-in-depth, reactor design and analysis, plant operational design (accident and transient response), and radiological design.
- Knowledge of the functions and interactions of major power plant systems and the relationship between detailed system design and overall plant safety, performance, operability, reliability, maintainability, and constructability.
- Knowledge of system and discipline design development from conceptual and preliminary design through detailed design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operation of large complex industrial plants.
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