TITLE:    Plant Design Integration Engineer 

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.

Plant Design Integration Engineer

TerraPower, LLC. is seeking a Plant Integration Engineer to help support the integration, oversight, and coordination of nuclear island plant design with ongoing licensing and configuration management efforts.  In this role, you will support, and report to TerraPower’s Plant Design Programs Manager.

The successful candidate will provide technical and administrative design and regulatory support and oversight for the nuclear plant. This individual will collaborate with design engineering disciplines, licensing, safety analysis, and PRA to develop plans, strategies, processes, and plant level design deliverables. The Plant Integration Engineer will work as part of a high performing team of engineers.

Tasks

•  Collaborates with a geographically diverse set of team members, including those in partner organizations, to develop nuclear island plant integration deliverables with a focus on ongoing design engineering, licensing, and configuration management efforts.

•  Provides support for activities led by other Natrium departments, including licensing, design engineering, safety analysis, and PRA.

•  Develops plant level integration design deliverables in collaboration with plant design departments, including licensing, safety analysis, and PRA. Deliverables include plans, strategies, discipline design documents, plant level design basis documents, and processes.

Key Qualifications and Skills

•  The successful candidate should have a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in nuclear facility design or operation that includes experience in one or more of the following areas:

o  Plant or systems engineering.

o  Design engineering.

o  Fire Protection.

o  Operations.

o  Reactor Engineering.

•  The successful candidate should have a minimum of a BS degree in a relevant engineering discipline like nuclear, chemical, mechanical, or electrical engineering or a Senior Reactor Operators license or equivalent.

•  The successful candidate should demonstrate initiative and the ability to work independently with moderate supervision.

•  The successful candidate should have a working understanding of NRC regulations and associated guidance. Prior interaction with the NRC staff is desirable.

•  The successful candidate will display leadership skills by proactively driving cross functional design, licensing, safety analysis, and PRA collaboration and integration.

•  The candidate must be team oriented, and able to work effectively with geographically distributed and design team members.

•  This position requires the candidate to be conversant across a wide variety of engineering disciplines, programs, and processes as well as interfacing organizations (Licensing, Operations, Procurement, Construction, Document Control).

•  The candidate should demonstrate the ability to acquire new knowledge and apply it in a fast-paced environment.

•  The candidate should demonstrate the ability to organize information to convey it to other disciplines and organizations.

•  The candidate should demonstrate the ability to be innovative.

•  The successful candidate should have strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to convey critical design integration information to the management team, the engineering and licensing team, customers etc.

•  The candidate should be able to work in a conceptual design and first of a kind environment that requires the ability to use good engineering judgement and identify deliverables and processes to achieve key project objectives.

•  The candidate should have experience working to quality standards on design activities, such as ASME NQA-1 or ISO 9001.

•  The service provider will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork.

Job Functions

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position.  These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the candidate must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation.  The information provided below is to help describe the job so that the candidate has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations.  An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed, and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

•  Motor Abilities: Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)

•  Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds

•  Repetitive work: Prolonged

•  Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work

•  Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day

•  Travel required: 0-5%

TerraPower’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government.  TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements.  To facilitate TerraPower’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. 

Job details

Salary Range Level 11:  $125,257 - $208,762

Salary Range Level 12:  $169,922 - $235,464

*Typically, our employee salaries are within .90 – 1.0 of the mid-point of the posted salary band. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual’s qualifications and experience.  This range is specific to Washington State.

Job Type:  Full-time

Benefits:

•  Competitive Compensation

•  Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments

•  Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits

•  Medical

•  Vision

•  Dental

•  Life

•  Life and Disability

•  Gender Affirmation Benefits

•  Parental Leave

•  401k Plan

•  Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)

•  21 days of annually accrued PTO

•  Generous Holiday Schedule

•  10 paid holidays

•  Relocation Assistance

•  Professional and Educational Support Opportunities

•  Flexible Work Schedule

 TerraPower Career and Benefits information:  https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/

Please visit www.terrapower.com to apply