System Design Engineer - TPI

Title:

System Design Engineer - TPI

Location:

Bellevue and Everett, Washington, United States Job Type: Full-time

The Terra Power Isotopes® (TPI™) division has been established to pursue medical isotopes development--advancing nuclear science for significant human health benefits. We seek to support revolutionary radio therapies for treatments of various cancers through the supply of radioisotopes. Terra Power currently has unique access to a supply of thorium for the long-term production of actinium-225 in the growing alpha therapy market and intends to expand into other nuclear related medical treatments.

The Terra Power Isotopes (TPI) program is an integral part of the Washington State based Terra Power team, a company working to raise living standards globally. In 2006, the company originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. Terra Power's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced radiopharmaceutical applications and influencing change within nuclear medicine. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring 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.

In addition, as a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an Affimative Action Plan (AAP) to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

The Terra Power Isotopes® (TPI™) System Design Engineer will play a key role in the design and, integration of mechanical and chemical systems within TPI Ac-225 production facilities, with particular emphasis on hot cells and glove boxes suitable for handling of alpha emitting and long-lived radionuclides. The ideal candidate will have experience contributing to and coordinating integrated system design within a cross disciplinary engineering team, and experience and expertise relevant to the design of radio chemical processes, equipment, and/or containment systems.

• Design of radiopharmaceutical, nuclear and/or industrial process systems and sub-systems from requirements through final design.
• Coordinate development, fabrication, installation and acceptance testing of equipment for radio pharmaceutical application and radiological material handling.
• Coordinate the review of analyses, such as dose, seismic, structural, and other analyses performed by others and ensure results support the purpose of the component.
• Support commissioning and decommissioning efforts for radiological components.
• Support the ongoing effort of trouble shooting equipment, maintaining, and modifying equipment as needed.
• Establish and maintain requirements for designed systems and components.
• Analyze and allocate regulatory criteria and standards to complex mechanical and process system design.
• Identify and ensure effective application of correct design codes into the design of facility and lab systems such as ASME, ASCE, ANS, ASTM, IEEE, NFPA, etc.
• Support FMEA or other Process Hazard Analysis techniques.
• Support design reviews as facility and lab system and subsystem designs are established and refined.
• Support and lead configuration control and design change efforts.
• Support planning efforts and maintain schedule adherence for design activities within a system, as well as their integration with an overall project schedule.
• Interface with the design team to create and manage drawing packages of system designs, including but not limited to Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), 3D models, assembly/part drawings, and system interface drawings.
• Interface with design disciplines (such as mechanical, instrumentation and controls, civil, and nuclear) to identify and develop design information and specify system design and performance…