Design Control Lead

Design Control Lead

Bellevue, Washington, United States

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 Powers 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 companys 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 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. 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.

Design Control Lead

Terra Power is seeking a Design Control Lead to develop, implement, and maintain its design-control processes and procedures. This role will provide oversight and guidance to engineering teams, suppliers, and contractors to ensure design traceability, verification, and change control. The Design Control Lead will also support audits, training, and coordination across Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Licensing, and Digital Engineering.

• Lead the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Terra Power design-control processes, procedures, guidance, tools, templates, and performance measures.
• Provide technical oversight of contractors performing design control process development work including but not limited to Contract Technical Representative role.
• Define and maintain methods for demonstrating traceability between design inputs, analyses, design decisions, design outputs, verification activities, and configuration-controlled records.
• Provide guidance on verification rigor, verifier independence, interdisciplinary review, assumptions management, and the resolution of verification comments.
• Lead development and implementation of design-change-control methods covering problem identification, technical evaluation, affected-document determination, interface evaluation, risk assessment, approval, implementation, verification, and closure.
• Establish and maintain criteria governing temporary changes, field changes, nonconformances, deviations, waivers, substitutions, supplier changes, and other conditions that may affect the approved design.
• Support or lead Engineering Change Control Boards and other governance forums responsible for significant design decisions and changes.
• Provide design-control oversight and guidance to engineering organizations, projects, suppliers, contractors, and partner design organizations.
• Support development of design-control requirements for contracts, statements of work, procurement specifications, and supplier quality requirements.
• Evaluate supplier and partner design-control processes and support audits, surveillances, assessments, and corrective actions.
• Work with Configuration Management leadership to ensure that approved design information, configuration baselines, changes, implementation status, and configuration records remain aligned.
• Work with Digital Engineering and product-development teams to define system requirements, workflows, controls, reports, and data relationships needed to support design control.
• Support integration of requirements management, document management, configuration management, engineering change control, design verification, and technical decision records within Terra Powers digital engineering environment.
• Develop and deliver design-control training, mentoring, qualification guidance, and practical implementation support for engineering personnel.
• Support qualification programs for design engineers, design verifiers, approvers, responsible engineers, and other personnel performing design-control functions.
• Perform or lead design-control audits, surveillances, self-assessments, effectiveness reviews, and process-health evaluations.
• Develop and monitor design-control…