Manager, Plant Design Products

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 and does 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.

This role combines personnel management, project management and planning skills with technical leadership responsibilities. The position leads and supports the creation of plant‑level design definition and documentation and integration of the Natrium nuclear island plant design.

• 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.
• Manages Design Integration team staffing, schedules, deliverable scoping planning and performance.
• Provides personnel management, professional development, mentoring, and hiring support.

• 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.
• ANSI/ANS 3.1 qualification requirements. Candidates must meet the minimum education and experience criteria applicable to the role, including relevant nuclear industry experience where required. Verification of data will be part of the hiring process.

• 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‑discipline problems.
• The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly, and display respect…