Director, Balance of Plant

The posting, as Kairos Power wrote it

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking an experienced senior engineering leader to serve as Director, Balance of Plant (Power Generation System & Turbine Island), to provide strategic and technical leadership for multidisciplinary engineering teams. This role is responsible for the technical leadership, organizational capability, and execution of the engineering teams responsible for design and deployment for Structures, Systems, and Components that convert thermal energy to electricity and provide auxiliary plant functions necessary to support reliable and efficient plant operation. The ideal candidate combines broad power plant and thermal-fluid systems expertise with demonstrated success building engineering teams, working with external partners, and delivering complex, hardware systems from concept through commissioning and operation.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the development and integration of balance-of-plant (BOP) Systems, such as the Heat Transport Systems interfacing with high-temperature steam Rankine cycles, Power Generation System (PGS), and auxiliary systems such as service water, treated water, and compressed air systems.
• Establish department technical direction and decision boundaries consistent with company strategy and designated technical authorities.
• Lead engineering delivery from conceptual sizing through detailed design, vendor package review, and commissioning support, owning design reviews and technical risk.
• Ensures that system and discipline leads satisfy applicable requirements, codes and standards, safety functions,and align to program
• Ensure engineering deliverables—including requirements, calculations, analyses, specifications, drawings, design reports, interface documents, and test plans—are technically sound and meet established quality and schedule requirements.
• Oversee supplier technical execution, including supplier selection, bid evaluations, equipment specifications, design reviews, technical evaluations, qualification programs, factory acceptance testing, and resolution of supplier technical issues, to ensure supplier designs and deliverables meet Kairos Power requirements.
• Oversee evaluation of BOP design and supplier changes for impacts on system interfaces, plant performance, safety, and commissioning readiness, and ensure approved changes are incorporated into the controlled technical baseline.
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ccasionally requires working weekends

• Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
• Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines

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About our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

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Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810