Chief Engineer - Chrysalis

Chief Engineer

Chrysalis is SHINE's flagship Molybdenum-99 production facility — designed to become the world's largest isotope production facility and a first-of-a-kind, nuclear-enabled chemical processing plant. Getting it right matters:
Chrysalis will directly expand the supply of a critical medical isotope used in tens of millions of diagnostic procedures each year, at a moment when the global supply chain badly needs it.

We're looking for a Chief Engineer to serve as SHINE's senior-most engineering executive for Chrysalis — the final technical authority accountable for the integrity of engineering and technical delivery from design through construction support, commissioning, and facility turnover. This is a hands-on executive role: you will personally engage in the consequential technical, schedule, and risk decisions that determine whether a first-of-a-kind facility performs the way it was designed to, and you'll be the person the executive team turns to for a straight answer on engineering status and risk.

You'll serve as the final integrator of engineering direction across Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, Operations, Quality, and Regulatory — ensuring that execution stays safe, reliable, compliant, and on schedule.

The base salary range for this position is $240,000 - $320,000 per year plus a comprehensive compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

What You'll Do

• Hold single-point executive accountability for engineering execution of the Chrysalis facility, from design engineering through field engineering, construction support, commissioning, and turnover.
• Serve as final technical authority for system design, integration, and major technical decisions on a first-of-a-kind, complex industrial facility.
• Personally lead resolution of critical-path technical issues, ambiguous engineering problems, and high-consequence decisions affecting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
• Coordinate matrixed engineering resources across mechanical, process, instrumentation and controls, nuclear, safety, structural, systems, and reliability disciplines.
• Own engineering risk identification and mitigation strategy for the project, applying lessons learned from large capital infrastructure delivery.
• Drive design-for-reliability and design-for-operability principles across plant systems to support industrial-scale performance and maintainability.
• Lead or sponsor technical review boards, hazard reviews, and root-cause investigations tied to significant technical or reliability issues.
• Serve as engineering signatory for major design, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.
• Represent Chrysalis engineering strategy, status, and risk to the COO, executive leadership, and regulatory representatives.
• Partner with Finance and Operations on capital planning, engineering trade-offs, and schedule decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Nuclear, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; master's degree or PhD preferred.
• 18+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including significant senior or executive experience leading large, complex capital infrastructure programs in oil and gas, chemical processing, nuclear, or a comparably regulated, high-consequence industry.
• A track record of leading a first-of-a-kind or novel-technology project from design through commissioning, startup, and industrial-scale operation — you've done this before and know what breaks.
• Prior experience operating at the Chief Engineer, VP of Engineering, or equivalent executive technical authority level with direct accountability to a C-suite audience.
• Deep grounding in system integration, reliability engineering, failure analysis, and design-for-operability principles.
• Comfort leading through technical ambiguity, competing priorities, schedule pressure, and high-consequence risk.
• Familiarity with hazard reviews such as HAZOP and FMEA and direct engagement with regulatory bodies; NRC or comparable regulatory experience strongly preferred.
• Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to represent engineering strategy and risk to the…