MCFR Plant Design Manager

Title: MCFR Plant Design Manager

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Job Type: Full-time

Terra Power 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. Founded in 2006 with Bill Gates and a group of like‑minded visionaries, Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

The company’s activities in nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in safety, economics, hybrid energy and medical applications—all for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power seeks highly motivated, forward‑thinking professionals interested in advanced nuclear reactor research and development and in influencing change within the nuclear power landscape. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, as a federal contractor, has an affirmative action plan to proactively recruit, hire and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans. Terra Power is a firm believer in nondiscrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

MCFR Plant Design Manager

Terra Power is hiring a Plant Design Manager to support the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program and the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) project. The role reports to the MCFR Director of Engineering and centers on management and technical direction of plant design personnel, beginning with the team’s focus on MCRE and evolving toward the design of future advanced reactors.

This hybrid role requires 4 onsite days and a preferred PE license.

• Provide technical leadership for the Plant Design discipline, serving as the primary point of contact and ensuring technical work, documentation and deliverables meet Terra Power, contract, project and industry standards and procedures.
• Act as the discipline expert for Plant Design (Layout, Structures, Vessels, Equipment, Piping, Electrician I&C integration), establishing, maintaining and enforcing discipline guidelines, design criteria, best practices and work processes.
• Lead selection, configuration management and Verification & Validation (V&V) activities for Plant Design software tools, including those supporting Plant3D models, piping, pressure equipment and mechanical structure design and analyses.
• Coordinate engineering inputs, functional requirements and technical interfaces needed for the design of reactor plant equipment and components (e.g., vessels, pumps, heat exchangers, piping, supports).
• Oversee Design Verification and related quality assurance activities for discipline deliverables.
• Develop and maintain unit rates for Plant Design discipline deliverables to support project cost and schedule planning.
• Interface with project stakeholders to ensure proper task priority, alignment with project objectives and clear communication across the discipline.
• Develop discipline staffing plans; support recruiting, hiring, onboarding and assignment of work to team members based on project needs and workload.
• Support employee development through mentoring, training, regular 1:1s, goal setting and performance evaluations.
• Approve weekly timecards for personnel within the Plant Design discipline.

• B.S. degree or higher in Mechanical, Chemical/Process Engineering or Civil Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years of related experience with at least 2 years of previous supervisory or mentoring responsibility for Level 12.
• Minimum 10 years of related experience with at least 5 years of previous supervisory or mentoring responsibility for Level 13.
• Experience level may be partially substituted for advanced degree depending on position relevance.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and support engineering deliverables across multiple…