Core Component Design Manager, Pinned Assemblies

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 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.

Terra Power is seeking a Core Component Design Manager to join the Natrium Fuel Design and Supply team. The Core Component Design Manager will oversee work scopes regarding the design of Natrium fuel assemblies, including completion of the fuel assembly design and act as technical design authority for fuel and other pinned assemblies for fabrication. The Core Component Design Manager will interface extensively with the Natrium Fuel Design, Analysis and Supply leadership team and upstream/downstream stakeholders to ensure proper integration between design and delivery.

• Keep Core Design and Methods Senior Manager and engineering management informed of major emerging technical issues.
• Interface with regulators, stakeholders, and customers on discipline design issues.
• Support any complex analytical work to be performed and provide project support for the work.
• Assist in the continued development tools for the discipline.
• Recognize the need and recommend obtaining external subject matter experts.
• Ensure periodic meetings with discipline engineers to ensure appropriate communication of discipline and project information within project purview.
• Assist in developing the engineering staffing plan for the discipline using input from the project, including maintenance of load boards for discipline personnel.
• Assist in the recruitment, onboarding, and indoctrination of new discipline engineers within the CCD group.
• Recommend staff changes (replacements due to attrition, new requirements, de-staffing).
• Assist in resolving priority conflicts in conjunction with the projects when issues arise that compete for resources. Elevate those that cannot be resolved to the Senior Manager level.
• Support employee development through mentoring, training, and challenging assignments within the specific program engineering efforts as assigned.
• Assist in the development, maintenance, and use of discipline guidelines (e.g., design criteria, design guides, desktop instructions, design notes).
• Perform self‑assessments of work processes and technical adequacy.
• Inspect and provide oversight of technical tasks deliverable within project and discipline areas or responsibility.
• Ensure that work process execution and technical adequacy within the group scope are in accordance with contract requirements, project standards, and industry standards.
• Demonstrate visible, continuous leadership in the areas of safety…