Job Type
Full-time
Description
SHINE Technologies is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Director of Engineering to lead engineering efforts for the design of a used nuclear fuel (UNF) recycling pilot facility. This role offers a unique opportunity to take a nuclear process design from the early preliminary stage through detailed design, licensing with the nuclear regulatory commission (NRC), procurement of equipment, and construction. Ideal candidates would have experience with design of nuclear chemical processes, safety analysis, equipment selection, and NRC licensing.
This position is in a small but dynamic team that includes design engineering, safety analysis, radiochemistry, and licensing team members. While this type of process (liquid-liquid separation) has been commercialized before, new technologies are being integrated into the design to improve proliferation resistance and maximize recovery of the valuable resources contained in UNF.
The Director or Engineering - UNF Recycling requires the ability to work effectively both independently on analyses and specifications and in a team to provide engineering expertise needed for the team to successfully integrate these new technologies into a commercial design.
The person in this role will also be asked to think strategically about goals, schedule, and budget, and help define guidance for the team on items such as selection of codes and standards, seismic design approach, and application of nuclear quality requirements.
The base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $225,000 per year plus a comprehensive compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
Duties and Responsibilities of the Director of Engineering - UNF Recycling:
Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Build the core engineering team for SHINE's UNF recycling business unit
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team to progress design and licensing of UNF recycling pilot facility.
• Maintain documentation on baseline design, including facility design requirements, process description, and process flow diagram.
• Develop equipment data sheets and specifications to communicate equipment requirements to vendors and design partners.
• Prepare, review, or provide direction on nuclear analyses related to areas such as radionuclide inventories, dose rates, biological shielding, waste classification.
• Provide input to project goals, schedule, and budget.
• Actively participate in hazard and operability studies (HAZOPs) and design reviews.
• Provide input to equipment layout to maximize process efficiency, factoring in operation, maintenance, and safety considerations.
• Identify and evaluate key technical project risks, develop solutions, and communicate to senior management.
• Provide guidance to and mentors junior engineers.
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Ten years or more of relevant engineering experience.
• Energized by solving interesting design engineering challenges.
• Willingness to learn and understand new technology and technical processes.
• Experience designing or selecting equipment for operation in harsh environments.
• Familiarity with nuclear industry design, operations, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple activities, prioritizing them in a way that contributes most to Company success.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Knowledge of nuclear fuel cycle processes.
• Nuclear safety analysis experience.
• Familiarity with facility design, licensing, and construction under 10 CFR Part 50.
• Experience interacting with a regulatory body, such as NRC.
Eligibility for employment is conditioned on the applicant's ability to qualify for access to information subject to U.S. Export Controls. Additionally, applicant's eligibility may be conditioned based upon meeting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements for access to Safeguards Information, which typically requires a pre-employment drug screen, fingerprinting and criminal background check.
