Fuel Manufacturing Lead Engineer
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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.
Fuel Manufacturing Lead Engineer
TerraPower is seeking a Fuel Manufacturing Lead Engineer to join the Natrium Fuel Manufacturing team. The Fuel Manufacturing Lead Engineer will report to the Director of Fuel Manufacturing to provide broad technical leadership for all the technical elements of fabrication of fuel and non-fuel core components, including but not limited to enrichment, metallization of HALEU feedstock, fabrication, and transport. The Fuel Manufacturing Lead Engineer will interface extensively with leadership, internal teams, and fabrication partners to ensure technical integrity, integration and collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical direction and guidance to technical teams working on the fuel fabrication chain, acting as a matrix technical leader across Fuel Manufacturing.
- Lead technical development and scale-up of fuel and non-fuel manufacturing processes from laboratory and pilot scale to qualified production, including process definition, qualification, and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical direction to supplier projects, working with project managers and contract administrators to ensure delivery of data and other technical deliverables to meet TerraPower requirements, as well as coordination and performance of technical reviews of deliverables.
- Establish and/or maintain requirements and specifications related to nuclear fuel and non-fuel core components fabrication and transportation, owning the technical baseline and configuration for fuel manufacturing.
- Interface with reactor design, neutronics, thermal hydraulics, and safety analysis teams to ensure fuel and non-fuel assembly properties are adequately reflected in fuel fabrication efforts.
- Ensure Fuel Manufacturing activities comply with TerraPower’s nuclear quality assurance program and applicable codes, standards, and licensing basis requirements, championing strong nuclear safety culture.
- Mentor engineers to establish key competencies within the team and to support team development, staffing plans, and succession planning to enable program scale-up and long-term operational continuity.
- Represent Fuel Manufacturing team in other areas such as decision meetings, design reviews, change management, and issue resolution.
- Support Fuel Manufacturing team in NRC and/or DOE interactions related to fuel fabrication development, operations, supplier qualification activities, licensing, inspections, reportable events, and other topics.