Engineering Manager - Projects

X-Energy•Oak Ridge, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Triso-X is looking for a forward-thinking Engineering Manager to lead and manage the engineering team in the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale technical projects and products. This role ensures high standards of quality, efficiency, and alignment with organizational objectives, with a specific focus on large-scale projects supporting the fuel fabrication plant in Oak Ridge, TN. The Engineering Manager will have approval authority to oversee project leads, handle reporting from various teams, and create strategies for project success. This position involves interaction with engineering firms, supplier technical representatives, contracts, and procurement teams. Candidates must be able to communicate effectively with individuals at all organizational levels and translate objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline from an accredited university or college.
Typically, ten plus years of professional experience in project engineering after completion of undergraduate study.
Graduate degrees typically count as two plus years of experience.
Experience estimating time and resources needed to execute engineering activities.
Requires specialized knowledge within the function of project engineering management.

Responsibilities

Manage the execution of engineering design, analysis, or evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program/project requirements.
Manage the utilization of engineering resources across multiple projects and ensure qualified engineers are performing assigned work.
Manage design cycle sprints and provide direction to ensure the convergence of efforts of engineering team members, partners, and suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality engineering work products that are on schedule and within budget as defined by Project leadership.
Manage (functional area) engineering staff by ensuring staff are meeting expectations and promoting staff professional development.
Influence the development of strategy, methodology, and technical tools for the area of responsibility, including control of resources and policy formulation.
Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, tools, or services.
Use a high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems in areas of operations, product management, technology, or engineering.
Assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders.
Offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and construct and provide recommendations.
Work within a multidisciplinary engineering team to create the next generation nuclear reactor and/or nuclear fuel related technologies.
Perform work in accordance with design control procedures, ensuring thorough documentation of work, facilitation of internal and external design reviews, and control of product design configuration data.
Maintain professional demeanor and behavior at all times in all forms of communication.
Perform other duties as assigned by manager.