Senior Engineer, Power Plant Operational Design
About this role
Senior Engineer focused on Design for Operations for Kairos Power's fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR). You'll translate operational requirements into system and component designs, collaborate across engineering disciplines, and support plant commissioning for the Hermes Demonstration Reactor.
Responsibilities
- —Develop and refine the plant's detailed operational strategy, including operating modes, envelopes and key state points
- —Translate operational goals into actionable system- and component-level requirements for Structures, Systems and Components (SSCs)
- —Define anticipated and planned plant transients and collaborate with simulation teams to model and assess system responses
- —Collaborate with cross-functional design teams to ensure operational requirements and control strategies are incorporated into plant-level decisions
- —Support design optimization efforts to enhance plant performance, reliability and availability while mitigating technical risks
- —Support development of design for operations workflows from concept through detailed design and plant commissioning
Qualifications
- —BS or MS in Mechanical, Nuclear, Chemical or related engineering discipline with 6+ years of relevant experience
- —4+ years of experience in plant design and/or plant performance analysis
- —Fundamental understanding of power or industrial process plant operation and equipment interrelationships
- —Proficient knowledge in power plant steady state performance
- —Proficient knowledge in power plant maneuvering, control of closed-loop heat transport systems, transient thermodynamics and thermal-hydraulics
- —Demonstrated experience applying understanding of plant operations in development of plant design configuration
- —Strong technical writing skills to document operational philosophies, assumptions and technical decisions
- —Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and lead/coordinate resolution of issues in cross-functional teams
Desired
- —Working experience with plant simulation tools (e.g., APROS or other simulation platforms)
Location
Onsite; up to 20% travel; general office environment with prolonged stationary work; must be authorized by Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information.
Job details
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About the company
Kairos Power →A developer of the fluoride salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (KP-FHR), building the Hermes demonstration reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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