Natrium, Sub Technical Representative; KU

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• Relocation Authorized:
  National - Family
• Telework Type:
  Full-Time Office/Project

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.

In this role, you will provide project field engineering specialization and expertise with work planning and packaging, material management, quantity verification and validation, safety and quality control, technical inspection and testing knowledge, and subcontract coordination. Your recommendations will ensure field engineering activities operate safely, are complete, and conform to quality standards and project requirements. You will ensure the assigned subcontractors’ performance comply with specifications and within schedules and budget.

• Establish primary interface between Construction, Subcontracts, Turnover, Startup and Operations.
• Technical oversight of assigned subcontractor’s safety, quality, schedule, and coordinated execution of the subcontractor’s scope of work.
• Support Subcontract Formation and BEA (Bid, Evaluate, & Award) Process.
• Monitor and report subcontractor’s cost and schedule performance. Validate subcontractor’s monthly progress payments and invoices.
• Coordinate subcontractor’s activities with work performed by others.
• Monitor subcontractor construction schedules, resource charts, and material and equipment requirements.
• Review subcontractor construction methods, schedules, manning of charts, and material and equipment requirements. Monitor and report the subcontractor’s daily progress.
• Monitor and inspect the subcontractor’s quality of work, ensuring subcontracted commodities or facilities have met all engineering and operational requirements.
• Oversee subcontractor preparation of construction drawings, sketches, projections, and schedules for workforce, material, and equipment requirements.
• Verify subcontractor commodities on quantity tracking systems or other computer database systems as required.
• Ensure zero accident philosophy and requirements are implemented and adhered to by Subcontractors.
• Support construction engineers, discipline superintendents, foremen, and craft professionals for coordination of subcontractor engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents.
• Develop firm understanding of system and area scoping and drawings required for subcontractor scope of works.
• Review and approve inspection test plans.
• Coordinate reviews of subcontractor submittals.
• Coordinate the construction operations impact on external interfaces to ensure they coincide with the overall established schedules.

Requires bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) and 8-10 years of relevant experience or 12-14 years of relevant work experience.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with nuclear quality and commercial practice standards is required.
• Ability to provide clear and precise verbal and written communications with subcontractors, design engineers, and customer…