Senior Director, Power Plant Engineering (Nuclear)

Location: Onsite at the Alameda, CA headquarters; some travel may be required, up to 25%.

Salary: $258,300–$330,000 per year for employees working onsite in Alameda, California.

Company

hirify.global Power develops fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor technology intended to support clean energy deployment with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation.

What you will do

• Lead the Power Plant Engineering organization across Reactor Systems, Pebble Handling and Storage Systems, Reactor Coolant Auxiliary Systems, Instrumentation, Control and Electrical Systems, and Balance of Plant Systems.
• Set technical direction and maintain engineering standards, design control, systems engineering practices, and the integrity of the plant technical baseline.
• Approve consequential technical decisions, accept technical risk within delegated authority, and resolve disagreements across systems and disciplines.
• Ensure designs satisfy requirements, codes, standards, safety functions, program objectives, and lifecycle needs from design through procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and operations.
• Maintain visibility and documentation of technical risks, assumptions, margins, interfaces, decisions, design changes, and unresolved issues.
• Lead and hold senior technical leaders accountable for the quality, maturity, completeness, and timeliness of engineering work.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 20+ years of engineering experience supporting nuclear power generation, nuclear design, analysis, licensing, construction, or plant operations.
• 10+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience managing large, multidisciplinary engineering organizations, typically comprising 100 or more employees.
• Prior experience as a Chief Engineer, Design Authority, Engineering Director, or in a comparable senior technical leadership role.
• Expertise in Mechanical, Civil/Structural, Nuclear, or another discipline relevant to nuclear power plant design, with working knowledge across major nuclear engineering disciplines and workstreams.
• Experience applying design control, configuration management, and technical baseline management in a complex nuclear or similarly regulated engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements, design and operations interfaces, quality assurance programs, and design control processes.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering projects through multiple design-maturity stages and making consequential technical decisions.
• Success holding senior engineering leaders and organizations accountable across multiple geographic locations.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety, safety classification, defense-in-depth, reactor design and analysis, accident and transient response, radiological design, plant systems, design reviews, interface management, design margins, uncertainty management, risk acceptance, and engineering change control.
• Ability to evaluate plant-level tradeoffs involving safety, performance, operability, reliability, constructability, cost, schedule, and design maturity without compromising requirements or safety objectives.
• Ability to assess, coach, and develop directors, managers, technical authorities, and senior engineers; integrate differing technical perspectives; and determine when issues require escalation, independent review, additional analysis, or plant-level decision-making.
• Ability to work in office, manufacturing/industrial, and prototyping/testing environments; use required PPE; occasionally work weekends, flexible schedules, or extended hours.

Nice to have

• Experience with first-of-a-kind technologies or programs involving significant technical uncertainty, evolving requirements, and development of organizational capability.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
• Paid vacation is provided.
• Benefits include a 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent-care benefits, and commuter benefits through an FSA.
• The role is performed in a high-concentration, demanding, fast-paced environment supporting critical project and launch timelines.
• hirify.global Power is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes diverse experiences, abilities, and perspectives.