Deputy Manager, Intermediate Heat Transport
Nuclear industryUS only
About this role
Deputy Manager for TerraPower's Intermediate Heat Transport (IHT) system design team on the Natrium advanced nuclear reactor project. In this role, you'll provide personnel and technical management of a geographically diverse engineering team while reporting to the IHT System Manager. You'll oversee multidisciplinary activities spanning reactor design, component development, and project integration, managing scope, schedule, budget, and technical interfaces across TerraPower, partners, and interfacing project teams.
Responsibilities
- —Coordinate and oversee multidisciplinary engineering activities, ensuring project teams meet scope, technical performance, schedule, and budget expectations
- —Develop, integrate, and analyze system-level schedules, identifying acceleration opportunities and ensuring alignment with overall project schedules
- —Coordinate technical interfaces and handoffs between TerraPower, partners, and interfacing project teams to enable cohesive design and fabrication strategies
- —Plan, monitor, and manage task progress, defining required scope, maximizing contributor efficiency, and ensuring complete and accurate work execution
- —Develop and maintain engineering staffing and resource plans, evaluating team skillsets and adjusting staffing to meet long-range needs and project priorities
- —Support recruitment, onboarding, and integration of new engineering personnel into project processes and expectations
- —Identify, communicate, and help resolve emerging technical issues and risks, ensuring Engineering and Project Management are consistently informed
- —Maintain and align system-level risk registers with project-level risk registers for consistency and visibility of key risk items
- —Maintain project documentation and records in accordance with corporate procedures and configuration management requirements
- —Lead and support incorporation of plant information into licensing basis and regulatory submittals, contributing to compliance with Licensing Modernization Project requirements
Qualifications
- —Minimum 6+ years of related experience with Bachelor's degree and Master's degree; or PhD with 3+ years experience
- —Proven ability to lead and collaborate within highly multidisciplinary, matrixed engineering teams
- —Experience supervising personnel performing complex technical or analytical tasks for nuclear power applications
- —Strong independent problem-solving skills with ability to work effectively with minimal direction
- —Direct experience executing projects under NRC or DOE regulatory frameworks
- —Ability to manage and deliver projects with competing objectives and complex design constraints, resolving conflicts across stakeholders
- —Proficiency in project planning, scheduling, execution, and performance management
- —Strong knowledge of nuclear-quality fabrication, construction, and lifecycle management processes, including inspection, surveillance, vibration, and equipment qualification programs
- —Excellent oral and written communication skills
- —Ability to manage numerous competing priorities concurrently and work with minimal direction to solve multi-disciplinary problems
- —Must meet qualification requirements per ANSI/ANS 3.1 with relevant nuclear industry experience verification
Desired
- —Previous supervisory or mentoring experience
- —Experience with collaboration and workflow tools, preferably Atlassian Confluence/JIRA
- —Familiarity with advanced project scheduling tools, such as Primavera P6
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Job details
FieldAdministrative
LocationBellevue, WA
IndustryNuclear energy
PostedJun 2026
About the company
TerraPower →A nuclear innovation company founded by Bill Gates, building the Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor and advancing medical isotope production.
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