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Plant Design Manager

Kairos Power 🇺🇸 Alameda, California, United States of America

$175,019 - $218,774 Full-time Manager

Lead the Plant Design function and directly manage Operational Design deliverables while partnering with the Plant Architecture Lead and coordinating plant-level integration across engineering, licensing, safety, operations, and project teams. Develop and mature requirements, architecture, operational strategies, technical review and readiness processes, and other project-critical design products.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Plant Design function and directly manage Operational Design deliverables while partnering with the Plant Architecture Lead and coordinating plant-level integration across engineering, licensing, safety, operations, and project teams. Develop and mature requirements, architecture, operational strategies, technical review and readiness processes, and other project-critical design products.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline and at least 10 years of relevant experience in complex engineered systems, nuclear power, plant design, systems engineering, or a comparable technical environment. Candidates should have multidisciplinary leadership experience and expertise in requirements, design integration, technical governance, operational design, and managing complex technical decisions; a relevant master's degree and five or more years of leadership experience are preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Dependent Care Benefits
  • Commuter Benefits

Key Skills

Systems engineering Nuclear plant design Requirements management Technical governance Operational design integration Multidisciplinary leadership CAD tools Project planning Risk assessment Regulatory compliance Design review processes Cross‑functional collaboration Technical documentation Problem solving Strategic architecture Stakeholder communication Agile/iterative development Safety analysis Process optimization Mentoring junior engineers

About Kairos Power

Kairos Power has a mission to enable the world’s clean energy transition to improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. We are an engineering company focused on the delivery of a clean, affordable and safe energy solution through the integrated design, licensing and demonstration of advanced reactor technology. Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology that has the potential to transform the energy landscape in the United States and internationally. Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter. The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.

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