TITLE: Sodium Cover Gas System Manager
LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA
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.
Sodium Cover Gas Systems Manager
The Sodium Cover Gas System (SCG) Manager is responsible for leading a geographically diverse team focused on the design of reactor equipment and components supporting TerraPower's Natrium project. The SCG Manager reports directly to the Nuclear Island Fluid Systems (NIFS) Senior Manager. The successful candidate will integrate and coordinate a team working on the reactor and it's interfacing systems as part of a high-performing team of engineers and scientists.
Responsibilities
Responsible for coordination and oversight of a geographically diverse design team to develop design of reactor equipment and supporting engineering bases. The team members include TerraPower employees, subcontracted resources, partner engineers and teams, and customers.
Support the design of integrated SCG equipment and components, from requirements definition through final design, to the highest levels of safety and reliability. Demonstrate visible, continuous leadership in the areas of safety and quality.
Support the development of a complete product lifecycle, such as but not limited to necessary construction and fabrication details, startup and testing plans, maintainability/inspectability attributes, and decommissioning plans.
Ensure that work process execution and technical adequacy within the group scope are in accordance with contract requirements, project standards, and industry standards.
Coordinate development of analyses, such as thermal, seismic, structural, fatigue, heat transfer, and other analyses performed by others required for the design.
Comply with project codes of record, including ASME BPVC Sect III.
Manage application of regulatory criteria, codes and standards, industry guidance, and design programs to complex mechanical design challenges.
Interface with regulators, stakeholders, and customers on design, fabrication, and regulatory issues.
Coordinate with interfacing project teams and other project support organizations to develop cohesive design and fabrication strategies across organizational lines and ensure accurate and complete hand-offs are executed.
Oversee execution of design work conducted by project subrecipients and subcontractors, including review and approval of design deliverables to meet project quality and completeness standards.
Provide technical direction and oversight of external design and/or fabrication supplier activities, working with or as the technical represent