Senior Integration Engineer – Physical Design Oversight

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.”

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Senior Integration Engineer – Physical Design Oversight

TerraPower, LLC. is seeking a highly motivated Senior Integration Engineer for the Physical Design Oversight (PDO) team on TerraPower’s Natrium advanced nuclear reactor projects. In this role, you will support the PDO team in the development of requirements and strategies relevant to first of-a-kind nuclear facility design, perform oversight review of work products, and facilitate integration across TerraPower and its suppliers to ensure successful execution of physical design and construction. The successful candidate will coordinate with engineers working on structures, systems, components, and engineering analyses for integration of input and requirements for nuclear plant design and analysis. Candidates must have experience in one or more aspects of physical design and analysis, project coordination, and performing owner’s acceptance review.

The PDO team has oversight for all aspects of design that relate to civil/structural, architectural, physical modeling, pipe routing and stress, plant layout, geotechnical works, and underground work. The team also owns several design discipline criteria for the project and serves as the subject matter expert for their implementation.

Responsibilities

Research, develop, and implement design bases and design strategies in support of plant design and licensing activities, including risk-informed, performance-based strategies and methodologies for the design discipline criteria owned by the PDO team

Develop, maintain, review, and refine plant level and system level requirements and specification documents for integration with plant design activities

Interface with design disciplines to identify and develop design information and specify design and performance criteria

Verify that licensing and code requirements are clearly established and implemented in the design and in alignment with project design and licensing strategies

Perform and support oversight review of physical design work products for acceptance into project configuration control

Support technical integration on the Nuclear Island (NI) between TerraPower and its engineering partner, including vendor input (VI) handoffs, interface requirements, design input packages, model and design basis transfer, and resolution of open technical items and requests for information

Coordinate multi-system integrated analyses such as soil-structure interaction (SSI) analyses, seismic analytical model development, external hazard fragility, and probabilistic risk assessment

Support monitoring and appraisal of design organizations, partners, contractors, and subcontractors’ performance to ensure that all technical requirements for the design are effectively and correctly implemented and processes are followed

Support design and integration reviews and resolution of cross functional technical issues

Support the integration of plant information into the licensing basis and regulatory submittal documents that support the licensing of nuclear facilities under the Licensing Modernization Project

Key Qualifications and Skills

Education: M.S. degree in Civil or Mechanical engineering or equivalent/higher preferred

8+ years of design and analysis experience

Excellent writing and communication skills

Ability to work independently and with minimum direction to solve challenging problems

Candidate must have strong analytical/problem solving skills

Candidate must be a self-starter and possess ability to coordinate with internal and external engineering and design teams with minimal direction

Experience with new nuclear power plant design projects

Experience with risk-Informed performance based, and probabilistic methodologies

Experience in a broad range of design and integration topics throughout a product lifecycle, including conceptual design, final design, and construction

Experience with design for complex extreme and external hazard loading such as seismic, high winds, and aircraft impact

Experience with commercial codes and standards such as IBC, ACI 318, AISC 360 and ASCE 7

Experience with nuclear codes and standards such as ACI 349, ACI 359, AISC N690, ASCE 4, and ASCE 43

Experience working projects with NRC or DOE regulations

Ability to deliver projects that include many competing objectives and design constraints, with ability to resolve conflicts between objectives

Ability to work on tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach

Experience working to quality standards on design activities, such as ASME NQA-1 or ISO 9001

Strong communication skills desired

The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork

Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.

This position is subject to qualification requirements in accordance with ANSI/ANS 3.1. Candidates must meet the minimum education and experience criteria applicable to the role, including relevant nuclear industry experience where required. Verification of data will be part of the hiring process.

Job Functions:

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

Motor Abilities: Sitting for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)

Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds.

Repetitive work: Prolonged

Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work

Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >