Natrium Lead Pump Engineer

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. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

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.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.

The Natrium Lead Pump Engineer reports to the Primary Heat Transport Manager and is focused on the design of the Primary Sodium Pump (PSP) and the Intermediate Sodium Pump (ISP). In this role, you will act as the design lead for sodium pumps, as well as contribute to the design of the primary heat transport system. This is an exciting role to direct the design and testing of the main heat transport pumps used in the Natrium Demonstration Project and comes with great responsibility.

The successful candidate is one who takes ownership of the development of the PSP & ISP and utilizes a deep knowledge of pump hydraulic, mechanical, and motor design to drive technical issues to resolution.

• Develop and manage technical requirements for the PSP & ISP. This responsibility will include preparing or reviewing the PSP & ISP design specifications and ensuring the correct application of ASME code rules to the design and fabrication of the component.
• Perform technical vendor oversight of PSP & ISP designer.
• Review and perform owners’ acceptance of vendor deliverables.
• Support the PSP & ISP design by performing thermal hydraulic or mechanical analyses using hand calculation or software-based methods.
• Lead design reviews for PSP & ISP.
• Assist with developing testing requirements, test specifications; provide technical oversight for testing related to the PSP & ISP.
• Work with other engineers on physical and fluid interface requirements and design.
• In addition to the role as Natrium Lead Pump Engineer, this engineer will occasionally support the primary heat transport system design by:
• Coordinating with other teams regarding the results of analyses, such as thermal, seismic, structural, pipe stress, heat transfer, and other analyses performed by others and integrate the results into plant design and operational decisions.
• Identify and ensure effective application of correct design codes into the design of plant systems such as ASME, ANS, ASTM, IEEE, NFPA, etc.
• Analyze and allocate regulatory criteria and standards to complex mechanical and process system design.
• Support planning efforts and maintain schedule adherence for design activities within a system, as well as their integration with an overall plant design delivery 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, and…