Senior Director, Power Plant Engineering

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

• →Knowledge of nuclear power plant design and operation, including nuclear safety principles, safety classification, defense-in-depth, reactor design and analysis, plant operational design (accident and transient response), and radiological design. 
• →Knowledge of the functions and interactions of major power plant systems and the relationship between detailed system design and overall plant safety, performance, operability, reliability, maintainability, and constructability. 
• →Knowledge of system and discipline design development from conceptual and preliminary design through detailed design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operation of large complex industrial plants. 
• →Knowledge of engineering decision-making, technical authority, design reviews, technical baselines, interface management, design margins, uncertainty management, and risk acceptance. 
• →Knowledge of configuration management and engineering change control principles as they apply to maintaining an established plant design and technical baseline. 
• →Skill in leading multiple engineering departments, plant system organizations, managers, and senior technical leaders toward common technical and execution objectives. 
• →Skill in evaluating plant-level technical tradeoffs involving safety, performance, operability, reliability, constructability, cost, schedule, and design maturity without compromising established requirements or safety objectives. 
• →Skill in evaluating complex system and discipline designs for technical adequacy, maturity, completeness, compliance, and integration. 
• →Skill in developing, documenting, and implementing consequential technical decisions using incomplete or evolving information. 
• →Skill in assessing, coaching, and developing directors, managers, technical authorities, and senior engineers and in providing direct, actionable performance feedback. 
• →Ability to recognize the broader plant implications of decisions originating within an individual system or engineering discipline. 
• →Ability to distinguish matters that can be resolved within a system or discipline from those requiring plant-level integration, Design Assurance involvement, or executive direction. 
• →Ability to integrate differing technical perspectives, challenge unsupported conclusions constructively, and reach timely decisions across organizational boundaries. 
• →Ability to determine when technical issues require escalation, independent review, additional analysis, or broader plant-level decision-making based on technical significance and risk. 

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

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Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810