Engineering Manager – Nuclear Facilities

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors.

Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

Aalo Atomics is seeking an Engineering Manager – Nuclear Facilities to lead the engineering organization responsible for sustaining and supporting Aalo's operating facilities in Idaho.

Your primary responsibility is to ensure that Aalo's facility systems remain safe, reliable, properly configured, technically understood, and effectively supported throughout operation, maintenance, testing, and modification.

Initially, this organization will support the Aalo-X Critical Assembly Facility at Idaho National Laboratory. Over time, the scope is expected to expand to include Aalo-0, the full-power Aalo-X facility, and other Aalo Idaho facilities.

The Engineering Manager – Nuclear Facilities reports to the Director of Nuclear Safety & Engineering, who serves as the Design Authority for the Aalo-X site, and leads a team of Cognizant System Engineers and facility engineers. You will be responsible for engineering execution, people leadership, resource allocation, system health, facility reliability, and coordination across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Nuclear Safety, Quality Assurance, and project organizations.

• Manage, mentor, and develop Cognizant System Engineers and facility engineers supporting Aalo's Idaho facilities.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, priorities, and technical ownership across the Nuclear Facility Engineering organization, and set objective expectations for engineering quality, responsiveness, configuration discipline, and technical rigor.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance evaluations, career development planning, and succession planning.
• Allocate engineering resources based on operational priorities, system condition, facility risk, maintenance needs, and project workload.
• Recommend CSE assignments and ensure assigned engineers are appropriately trained and qualified; formal CSE designation remains with the Design Authority.
• Build the engineering organization and capabilities necessary to support the CAF, Aalo-0, and the Aalo-X reactor.

• Oversee implementation of Aalo's Cognizant System Engineer and System Engineer functions.
• Ensure assigned engineers maintain current knowledge of system functions, design requirements, physical configuration, operating condition, and performance criteria.
• Establish and review system health indicators, performance trends, engineering backlogs, equipment-reliability issues, and obsolescence risks.
• Ensure degrading conditions, adverse trends, configuration discrepancies, and technical issues are identified, evaluated, corrected, and appropriately escalated.
• Drive practical improvements in equipment reliability, maintainability, and facility availability.

• Ensure Engineering provides appropriate design-basis and technical input to work planning.
• Support emergent equipment issues, troubleshooting, equipment failures, root-cause evaluations, corrective actions, and recovery plans.
• Ensure appropriate engineering review of work that could affect configuration-managed SSCs.
• Ensure post-maintenance and post-modification…