Safeguards and Security Lead (Nuclear)

Location: On-site in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with travel to the Austin, Texas facilities as needed

Company

hirify.global develops factory-fabricated microreactors designed to provide scalable and reliable nuclear power, including the 10 MWe hirify.global-1 reactor.

What you will do

• Lead safeguards, physical security, access-control, and nuclear material security programs for Idaho Falls activities covering construction, testing, and operations.
• Develop graded physical-protection measures for site boundaries, protected areas, buildings, vital equipment, control rooms, storage, and nuclear material.
• Manage access authorization, badging, visitor control, escorting, credentials, alarm response, and coordination with security forces.
• Establish requirements for nuclear material receipt, storage, movement, inventory, anomaly response, and transfer.
• Develop response plans for intrusion, theft, diversion, sabotage, insider threats, missing material, and security-system degradation.
• Conduct drills, assessments, investigations, performance tests, and corrective-action follow-up while coordinating with DOE, laboratories, regulators, law enforcement, and emergency responders.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship or U.S. Person status is required.
• On-site work in Idaho Falls, Idaho is required.
• Six or more years of progressively responsible experience in nuclear safeguards, physical security, nuclear material control and accountability, law enforcement, military security, or high-consequence infrastructure protection.
• Two or more years leading security or safeguards at a commercial nuclear plant, DOE facility, national laboratory, nuclear-fuel-cycle facility, or comparable high-security operation.
• Experience with physical protection, insider-threat mitigation, contingency planning, vulnerability assessment, incident response, investigations, and security performance testing.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required DOE or government security clearance, access authorization, and fitness-for-duty status. Availability for security events, critical tests, nights, weekends, and rotating on-call coverage is required.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in security management, criminal justice, nuclear technology, engineering, physical science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of DOE safeguards and security directives and relevant NRC physical-protection and material-control requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Professional growth opportunities and intellectually challenging work.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Corporate gym membership.