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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.”\nTerraPower 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. \nLead Engineer, Design Control\nTerraPower is seeking a Lead Engineer, Design Control to develop, implement, and maintain its design-control processes and procedures. This role will provide oversight and guidance to engineering teams, suppliers, and contractors to ensure design traceability, verification, and change control. The Design Control Lead will also support audits, training, and coordination across Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Licensing, and Digital Engineering.\nResponsibilities\nLead the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of TerraPower design-control processes, procedures, guidance, tools, templates, and performance measures.\nProvide technical oversight of contractors performing design control process development work including but not limited to Contract Technical Representative role.\nDefine and maintain methods for demonstrating traceability between design inputs, analyses, design decisions, design outputs, verification activities, and configuration-controlled records.\nProvide guidance on verification rigor, verifier independence, interdisciplinary review, assumptions management, and the resolution of verification comments.\nLead development and implementation of design-change-control methods covering problem identification, technical evaluation, affected-document determination, interface evaluation, risk assessment, approval, implementation, verification, and closure.\nEstablish and maintain criteria governing temporary changes, field changes, nonconformances, deviations, waivers, substitutions, supplier changes, and other conditions that may affect the approved design.\nSupport or lead Engineering Change Control Boards and other governance forums responsible for significant design decisions and changes.\nProvide design-control oversight and guidance to engineering organizations, projects, suppliers, contractors, and partner design organizations.\nSupport development of design-control requirements for contracts, statements of work, procurement specifications, and supplier quality requirements.\nEvaluate supplier and partner design-control processes and support audits, surveillances, assessments, and corrective actions.\nWork with Configuration Management leadership to ensure that approved design information, configuration baselines, changes, implementation status, and configuration records remain aligned.\nWork with Digital Engineering and product-development teams to define system requirements, workflows, controls, reports, and data relationships needed to support design control.\nSupport integration of requirements management, document management, configuration management, engineering change control, design verification, and technical decision records within TerraPower’s digital engineering environment.\nDevelop and deliver design-control training, mentoring, qualification guidance, and practical implementation support for engineering personnel.\nSupport qualification programs for design engineers, design verifiers, approvers, responsible engineers, and other personnel performing design-control functions.\nPerform or lead design-control audits, surveillances, self-assessments, effectiveness reviews, and process-health evaluations.\nDevelop and monitor design-control performance indicators, recurring-issue trends, corrective actions, and organizational improvement initiatives.\nSupport corrective-action investigations.\nInterface with Quality Assurance, Licensing, regulators, customers, and external reviewers on design-control program implementation and performance.\nPromote nuclear safety culture, technical rigor, conservative decision-making, continuous learning, and application of nuclear-industry best practices.\nKey Qualifications and Skills\nBachelor’s degree in nuclear, mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, systems, or another relevant engineering discipline from an accredited university.\nAt least 10-15 years of relevant engineering experience, including significant experience performing or overseeing design activities in nuclear power, Department of Energy facilities, or another highly regulated and technically complex industry.\nDemonstrated experience implementing nuclear design control under 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B; ASME NQA-1; or an equivalent quality assurance framework.\nStrong working knowledge of design inputs, design outputs, design analysis, design verification, design changes, design interfaces, configuration management, and design records.\nExperience developing, revising, or implementing engineering and design-control procedures.\nExperience reviewing complex engineering work products such as calculations, analyses, specifications, drawings, design basis documents, system descriptions, and engineering change packages.\nDemonstrated ability to lead resolution of multidisciplinary engineering-process and technical-governance issues.\nExperience evaluating the adequacy of design verification and the qualification and independence of design verifiers.\nAbility to interpret regulatory and quality requirements and translate them into practical engineering processes.\nStrong understanding of the relationship among design control, configuration management, quality assurance, licensing, procurement, supplier oversight, construction, testing, and operations.\nExperience leading audits, surveillances, self-assessments, root-cause evaluations, or corrective-action activities.\nDemonstrated ability to influence engineering behavior and process implementation without relying solely on direct organizational authority.\nExcellent technical writing, communication, facilitation, mentoring, and presentation skills.\nAbility to communicate complex requirements clearly to engineers, managers, quality personnel, suppliers, and project stakeholders.\nAbility to work independently, exercise strong engineering judgment, and manage multiple high-priority issues in a first-of-a-kind project environment.\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly, show respect for others, and actively foster teamwork.\nActual starting level and title will be determined based on the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree in engineering or a related technical field.\nCommercial nuclear power plant design-engineering, systems-engineering, engineering-programs, or design-authority experience.\nExperience with NRC inspections, audits, licensing reviews, or regulatory interactions involving design control.\nExperience implementing or assessing ASME NQA-1 Requirement 3 and associated nonmandatory guidance.\nFamiliarity with NRC Regulatory Guides 1.28, 1.64, 1.187, or other regulatory guidance applicable to quality assurance and design control.\nExperience with first-of-a-kind reactor development, advanced reactor licensing, risk-informed design, or the Licensing Modernization Project methodology.\nExperience overseeing architect-engineering firms, suppliers, contractors, or partner design organizations.\nFamiliarity with engineering change-control, requirements-management, product-lifecycle-management, document-management, and configuration-management systems.\nExperience integrating design-control requirements into digital engineering environments and automated engineering workflows.\nExperience developing engineering qualifications, training programs, performance metrics, and management-review processes.\nThis 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.\n\nJob Functions:\nJob 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.\nMotor Abilities: Sitting for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)\nPhysical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds.\nRepetitive work: Prolonged\nSpecial Senses: Visual and audio focused work\nWork Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hours/day\nTravel required 0-10%\nTerraPower’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.\nJob details\nSalary Range: $153,862 - $205,149\nAny salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience. 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