Vice President, Engineering

About the role

The Nuclear Company is seeking a Vice President, Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for the successful development and execution of a fleet of nuclear power plants.

This is a senior leadership role for an experienced nuclear professional who has spent significant time in the realities of the industry—design, construction, commissioning, operations, major projects, and/or asset management—and understands what it takes to move a nuclear project from engineering definition into construction and ultimately safe, reliable operation.

The VP, Engineering will build and lead an owner's engineering organization capable of integrating reactor technology, architect-engineer partners, EPC organizations, suppliers, utilities, regulators, and construction teams into a disciplined and repeatable delivery model, providing full lifecycle project support from early design through construction, commissioning, and operations.

We are looking for a builder, operator, and engineering leader —someone who combines deep nuclear judgment with the urgency and pragmatismrequiredto build the next generation of American nuclear infrastructure.

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary nuclear engineering organization.
• Establish the engineering management system, organizational structure, technical authorities, design responsibilities, and decision rightsrequiredto execute multiple nuclear projects.
• Recruit and develop leaders across key disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, I&C, systems, configuration management, design engineering, and engineering programs.
• Create a culture of technical rigor, accountability, speed, and continuous improvement.

• Provide executive leadership for engineering across the full project lifecycle—from site development and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations.
• Establish engineering plans, priorities, schedules, deliverables, and performance metrics aligned with overall project execution.
• Ensure engineering is sufficiently mature to support procurement and construction when required, minimizing field changes, rework, and schedule disruption.
• Drive resolution of complex technical issues and ensure engineering decisions balance nuclear safety, constructability, operability, cost, schedule, and lifecycle performance.
• Establish disciplined design-change, configuration-management, technical-document, and engineering-change-control processes.

• Bring an operator’s and constructor’s mindset to engineering decisions.
• Ensure designs incorporate lessons learned from operating nuclear plants and recent new-build programs.
• Integrate construction sequencing, modularization, supply-chain realities, commissioning requirements, maintenance, reliability, and long-term plant operations into design decisions.
• Partner closely with Construction, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, Licensing, Operations, and Commissioning toeliminateorganizational handoffs and solve problems as one integrated project team.
• Champion standardization and resist unnecessary project-specific customization.

• Serve as the senior technical interface with reactor technology providers, architect-engineers, EPC partners, utilities, major equipment suppliers, and other engineering organizations.
• Establish clear scopes, interfaces, deliverables, technical requirements, and accountability across engineering partners.
• Evaluate engineering performance and intervene quickly when technical, organizational, or execution issues threaten project outcomes.
• Ensure supplier engineering and vendor technical information are integrated into the overall plant design on schedule.

• Develop engineering processes that support a fleet-build strategy rather than a series of one-off projects .
• Capture and systematically incorporate lessons learned from each project intosubsequentunits.
• Drive design standardization, repeatability, configuration control, and reuse of engineering…