Chief Engineer - Chrysalis

SHINE Technologies LLC•Janesville, WI

80d•$240,000 - $320,000•Onsite

About The Position

Chrysalis is SHINE's flagship Molybdenum-99 production facility — designed to become the world's largest isotope production facility and a first-of-a-kind, nuclear-enabled chemical processing plant. Getting it right matters: Chrysalis will directly expand the supply of a critical medical isotope used in tens of millions of diagnostic procedures each year, at a moment when the global supply chain badly needs it. We're looking for a Chief Engineer to serve as SHINE's senior-most engineering executive for Chrysalis — the final technical authority accountable for the integrity of engineering and technical delivery from design through construction support, commissioning, and facility turnover. This is a hands-on executive role: you will personally engage in the consequential technical, schedule, and risk decisions that determine whether a first-of-a-kind facility performs the way it was designed to, and you'll be the person the executive team turns to for a straight answer on engineering status and risk. You’ll serve as the final integrator of engineering direction across Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, Operations, Quality, and Regulatory — ensuring that execution stays safe, reliable, compliant, and on schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Nuclear, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; master's degree or PhD preferred.
18+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including significant senior or executive experience leading large, complex capital infrastructure programs in oil and gas, chemical processing, nuclear, or a comparably regulated, high-consequence industry.
A track record of leading a first-of-a-kind or novel-technology project from design through commissioning, startup, and industrial-scale operation — you've done this before and know what breaks.
Prior experience operating at the Chief Engineer, VP of Engineering, or equivalent executive technical authority level with direct accountability to a C-suite audience.
Deep grounding in system integration, reliability engineering, failure analysis, and design-for-operability principles.
Comfort leading through technical ambiguity, competing priorities, schedule pressure, and high-consequence risk.
Familiarity with hazard reviews such as HAZOP and FMEA and direct engagement with regulatory bodies; NRC or comparable regulatory experience strongly preferred.
Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to represent engineering strategy and risk to the COO, executive team, and external stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

Hold single-point executive accountability for engineering execution of the Chrysalis facility, from design engineering through field engineering, construction support, commissioning, and turnover.
Serve as final technical authority for system design, integration, and major technical decisions on a first-of-a-kind, complex industrial facility.
Personally lead resolution of critical-path technical issues, ambiguous engineering problems, and high-consequence decisions affecting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
Coordinate matrixed engineering resources across mechanical, process, instrumentation and controls, nuclear, safety, structural, systems, and reliability disciplines.
Own engineering risk identification and mitigation strategy for the project, applying lessons learned from large capital infrastructure delivery.
Drive design-for-reliability and design-for-operability principles across plant systems to support industrial-scale performance and maintainability.
Lead or sponsor technical review boards, hazard reviews, and root-cause investigations tied to significant technical or reliability issues.
Serve as engineering signatory for major design, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.
Represent Chrysalis engineering strategy, status, and risk to the COO, executive leadership, and regulatory representatives.
Partner with Finance and Operations on capital planning, engineering trade-offs, and schedule decisions.