Site Design Engineering Civil Engineer

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-thinking visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Site Design Engineering Civil Engineer

The Site Design Engineering Civil Engineer will perform design follow activities and oversight as part of the civil engineering design team for the Natrium Demonstration Project, TerraPower's groundbreaking advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor plant under construction near Kemmerer, Wyoming. This role is critical in ensuring that engineering support aligns with construction, testing, startup, and turnover activities while maintaining compliance with the design and licensing basis, nuclear safety standards, and project requirements.

This position is based onsite at the Natrium Demonstration Project in Kemmerer, Wyoming, and reports to the Site Design Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Perform design follow and oversight of civil/structural activities in direct support of construction, testing, system startup, commissioning, and turnover to operations. This includes technical review, approval, and issuance of drawing and design deliverables to ensure they conform to the approved design basis, licensing commitments, and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as key onsite engineering interface for civil/structural issues with key stakeholders, including construction management, field engineering teams, licensing and regulatory affairs, quality assurance, the utility owner/operator, procurement, suppliers, and external regulators (e.g., NRC). Resolve technical and engineering issues arising in the field efficiently and collaboratively.
• Disposition design changes, nonconformances, and requests for information for all TerraPower division of responsibility deliverables for the Natrium Demo project.
• Manage priority conflicts when competing demands emerge across engineering tasks. Partner with other team leads to resolve issues at the working level; elevate unresolved or high-impact conflicts to senior leadership for timely decisions.
• Support Project Controls organization, Field Engineering, Construction, Home Office, to prioritize work activities to support the construction schedule.
• Ensure all work processes, technical outputs, and deliverables adhere to contract requirements, TerraPower project standards, industry standards, and nuclear regulatory expectations for quality, configuration management, and design control.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Civil Engineering from an accredited institution. Advanced degree and/or professional engineering registration (PE) preferred.
• 4+ years of engineering experience in design, construction support, or field engineering, preferably on large-scale EPC projects. Nuclear experience preferred. Job level based off of experience.
• Experience interfacing with construction, procurement, quality, licensing, and regulatory entities to resolve complex onsite technical issues while maintaining schedule and safety priorities is desired.
• Understanding of nuclear design and licensing basis requirements, configuration management, and quality assurance programs in regulated nuclear environments desired (e.g., 10CFR 50, 10CFR 52, NRC guidance).
• Excellent leadership, communication, a