Manager, Plant Design Products

TerraPower LLC.•Bellevue, WA

37d•$168,316 - $252,475•Onsite

About The Position

TerraPower is seeking a highly motivated, technically strong, and leadership‑oriented Manager of Plant Design Integration. This role combines personnel management, project management and planning skills with technical leadership responsibilities. This position leads and supports the creation of plant-level design definition and documentation and integration of the Natrium nuclear island plant design.

Requirements

BS degree in engineering (nuclear, mechanical, chemical, electrical).
10+ years of nuclear engineering experience.
2+ years of previous supervisory or mentoring experience or equivalent people leadership experience is required
Experience in multi‑discipline engineering leadership and plant architecture.
Knowledge of NRC/DOE regulations and risk informed licensing approaches.
Candidates must meet the minimum education and experience criteria applicable to the role, including relevant nuclear industry experience where required.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PRA, safety analysis, and high temperature systems.
Experience with ASME NQA-1 or ISO 9001.
Ability to manage numerous competing priorities concurrently during a given work week and work with minimal direction to solve multi-disciplinary problems.
The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly, and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.

Responsibilities

Leads a geographically diverse team and collaborates with partner design organizations to develop integrated nuclear island and plant-level design deliverables with elevated focus on plant architecture, technical leadership, and cross-discipline alignment.
Leads development, explanation, and communication of plant architecture including system interactions, functional allocations, interfaces, and design/analysis assumptions.
Leads a team developing plant-level integration deliverables such as plans, strategies, design basis documents, and plant design specifications in collaboration with engineering, licensing, safety analysis, and PRA teams.
Provides leadership and mentorship to the Plant Design Products team and supports development of integration engineering capabilities. Enables facilitation of technical integration reviews, configuration discussions, and architecture strategy sessions across multiple disciplines.
Lead multi-discipline technical issue resolution affecting plant design, which may involve facilitation of major plant systems’ decisions.
Ensures alignment of plant architecture and design documentation with the Licensing Modernization Process (LMP) including risk-informed categorization and defense-in-depth evaluations.
Manage Design Integration team staffing, schedules, deliverable scoping planning and performance.
Provide personnel management, professional development, mentoring, and hiring support.