Project Engineer - Procurement

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Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on Terra Power’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. Terra Power, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium.

The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost‑competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing.

With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, Pacifi Corp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades.

We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity!

In this role, you will lead a team and interpret, organize, execute, and coordinate the engineering technical aspects and project procurement activities for the Natrium project. You will participate in project planning, proposal review, and will own the engineering elements specifically in relation to advance procurement of equipment and commodity of Natrium facilities. Your technical guidance and recommendations will ensure engineering aspects meet project requirements and remain within scope and budget.

"This position is designated as part-time telework per our global telework policy and may require at least three days of in-person attendance per week at the assigned office or project. Weekly in-person schedules will be determined by the individual and their supervisor, in consultation with functional or project leadership".

• Oversees the Engineering-Procurement interface, ensures technical specifications and material requisitions are fit for purpose.
• Leading engineering team in the executing of procurements for piping/electrical bulks, commercial off-the-shelf components, and NQA-1 equipment.
  Leading engineering team in executing subcontracts for site services such as fire protection, HVAC installation, and security design.
• Provides performance metrics tracking average duration of vendor submittals for review, duration of standard tasks (Material
  
  Requisition s, Technical Evaluations, etc.), and ability to identify lessons learned and implement into existing work processes and procedures.
• Interface with the Project Director, Project Manager, and the Supply Chain Manager for updates of progress and mitigation steps as necessary to hold schedule milestones.
  Possesses technical responsibilities for interpreting, organizing,executing, and coordinating these…