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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. \nNuclear Security Training Instructor Job Summary\nThe Nuclear Security Training Instructor develops, delivers, administers, and evaluates initial, continuing, remedial, and requalification training for armed and unarmed security personnel assigned to an nuclear construction site and eventually an operating commercial nuclear power plant.\nThe instructor ensures that security personnel demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform assigned security duties before independent assignment and maintain those qualifications thereafter. Training shall be conducted in accordance with the station’s NRC-approved Training and Qualification Plan, Physical Security Plan, Safeguards Contingency Plan, protective strategy, security implementing procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.\nThe position supports the safe and secure operation of the nuclear facility by maintaining a fully qualified security organization capable of protecting against radiological sabotage, preventing significant core damage and spent-fuel sabotage, responding to security contingencies, and performing assigned duties during construction phase and operating at normal, abnormal, outage, and emergency conditions.\nResponsibilities\nMaintain qualification, training, examination, evaluation, and instructor records.\nTrack qualification and requalification dates and notify management of potential lapses.\nUpdate training materials to reflect regulatory, procedural, equipment, and operational changes.\nEvaluate training effectiveness using performance results, observations, drills, audits, and corrective-action trends.\nProvide subject-matter expertise during inspections, audits, assessments, and security-program reviews.\nCoordinate training activities with Nuclear Security and other station organizations.\nProtect Safeguards Information, examination materials, security plans, and other sensitive information.\nReinforce nuclear safety and security culture, procedural adherence, accountability, and timely reporting.\nMaintain instructor qualifications, certifications, access authorization, and technical proficiency.\nParticipate in continuing professional and instructor-development activities.\nDeliver emergent, outage, backshift, weekend, and holiday training as required.\nSupport drills, exercises, NRC inspections, and station emergencies.\nMinimum Qualifications\nHigh school diploma or recognized equivalent.\n5+ years of progressively responsible experience in commercial nuclear security, military protective-force operations, law enforcement, critical-infrastructure security, or a comparable armed-security environment.\nAt least two years of experience in commercial nuclear power security is strongly preferred for independent instructor qualification.\nDemonstrated experience conducting classroom instruction, on-the-job training, task-performance evaluations, practical exercises, or security-force qualification activities.\nDemonstrated knowledge of performance-based training and systematic instructional-development principles.\nWorking knowledge of 10 CFR Part 73, Appendix B to Part 73, applicable portions of 10 CFR Part 26, and the security requirements applicable to an operating nuclear power reactor.\nAbility to complete the station’s instructor qualification process before independently conducting or documenting regulated qualification activities.\nAbility to obtain and maintain unescorted access authorization.\nAbility to obtain and maintain authorization for access to Safeguards Information based on need-to-know, trustworthiness, and reliability.\nAbility to meet applicable fitness-for-duty requirements.\nAbility to complete applicable firearms background checks when duties require access to covered weapons.\nValid driver’s license where required by assigned duties.\nEffective written, oral, instructional, organizational, and interpersonal communication skills.\nPreferred Qualifications and Skills\nSeven or more years of nuclear security, military, law-enforcement, or protective-force experience.\nPrevious qualification as a commercial nuclear armed security officer, response team leader, alarm-station operator, security supervisor, or security instructor.\nExperience with NRC force-on-force exercises and security baseline inspections.\nQualification as an OJT instructor, task-performance evaluator, drill controller, or drill evaluator.\nCertified firearms, tactical, defensive-tactics, use-of-force, armorer, or range-safety instructor.\nExperience with learning-management systems, electronic training records, examination banks, and qualification-tracking systems.\nExperience initiating and resolving corrective-action program conditions.\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 0-25%\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: $98,382 - $127,768\n* We typically place offers in the lower to middle portion of the range to maintain internal equity and allow room for growth. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual’s qualifications experience. 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