Engineering Manager - Thermal-Mechanical Design for Nuclear Power applications

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Engineering Manager – Thermal-Mechanical Design

The engineering manager and people leader for the thermal-mechanical design team will work within the Fuel & Methods Development organization and under the broader Fuel & Technology Engineering division. The role involves aligning a team of technical leaders and engineers in developing models and methods for thermal-mechanical analysis of existing and new BWR fuel products and reactors to achieve business objectives.

This team contributes to company objectives in the fields of thermal-mechanical analysis and methods. It integrates and develops thermal-mechanical software, application methodologies, and supporting processes that are subsequently used to meet business needs across the organization. Specifically, this includes new product development and reload engineering work, the development and qualification of computational software, code benchmarking to post-irradiation measurements, licensing activities, and developing interfaces with other engineering organizations.

Essential:

• Ensure team is aligned with functional, business, and broad company objectives.
• Establish team expectations and individual engineer priorities.
• Define team mission/vision in concert with team.
• Develop employees, including providing regular coaching feedback, supporting Individual Development Plans (IDPs), and conducting annual employee performance evaluations.
• Create opportunities for leadership development within your team.
• Design, implement, and execute knowledge transfer initiatives within your team.
• Define and foster a collaborative, open team culture based on teamwork, integrity, candor, transparency, and execution to commitments.
• Manage team headcount, including resource projections relative to demand and employee hiring as needed.
• Team succession planning.
• Identify and mitigate both project and programmatic risks.
• Maintain financial accountability to project targets.
• Provide support to the Fuel & Methods Development organization senior manager, maintaining team alignment with broader organizational goals.
• Establish and maintain relationships with teams and commercial leaders within the broader Engineering organization to understand upcoming work demands and provide inputs on team capability and availability.
• Perform manager review and approval of engineering technical deliverables for GNF/GVH customers.
• Ensure work is performed with high quality in accordance with licensing regulations, customer requirements, and business quality assurance standards.
• Honest and straightforward with a high level of personal integrity.
• Detail oriented and accountable for results.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team.
• Displays a strong drive for continuous improvement.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in the United States is required. We will not sponsor individuals for work visas, now or in the future, for this position vacancy.
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
• B.S. degree from an accredited university or college in nuclear engineering, physics, mathematics, or a closely related technical discipline
• Ten or more years of cumulative engineering experience
• Prior experience leading employees

Desired:

· Nuclear industry knowledge/experience.

· Prior experience defining, influencing, and/or correcting team culture.

· Prior experience with constructive coaching and developing people.

· Prior experience developing leaders.

· Working knowledge of project scheduling software such as P6 Primavera.

· Prior experience with thermal-mechanical methods and models (e.g., PRIME, FAST, Bison, or other fuel vendor codes.)

· Experience with fuel test programs such as commercial LTAs or testing conducted at national labs.

· Experience with software quality assurance such as NQA-1.

· Programming experience with Fortran and Python.

· Experience working in GitLab or similar environment.

· Experience with developing licensing topical reports for fuel performance models and methods.

· Demonstrated ability to make decisions with speed and accuracy based on the best available information.

· Exceptional organization skills.

· Legacy of delivering on commitments; tenacious, with a proven track record of overcoming obstacles; ability to achieve stretch targets.

· Strong external focus; clear and demonstrated understanding of nuclear industry and/or energy industry.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

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