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TerraPower I&C Non-Safety Senior Lead Engineer in Bellevue, Washington
TITLE: I&C Non-Safety Senior Lead Engineer LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA 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-minded 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. I&C Non-Safety Senior Lead Engineer TerraPower, LLC is seeking a highly motivated I&C Design Engineer for the Senior Lead Engineer role in the non-safety instrumentation and controls group. This position reports directly to the Non-Safety I&C Manager. In this role, you will act as an I&C engineering team member for Sodium Fast Reactor technologies, including responsibility for the instrument and control system design, prototype development and testing, plant level system integration, and commissioning. Your role will include interfacing with a team of scientists and engineers internal and external to TerraPower. You will also identify, specify, and integrate custom instrumentation with advanced control systems for Generation IV advanced nuclear reactor technologies. Responsibilities * Responsible for interfacing and supporting geographically diverse and international design team members to develop supporting design documentation. The design team members include in-house and subcontracted resources and may include partner/customer resources as well. * Support engineering and review of instrumentation and controls scope for use in sodium fast reactor and integrated energy storage technologies. * Oversee Lead Designers of I&C and supporting electrical systems from systems and sub-system functional requirements through final design. * Support development of departmental strategic planning for non-safety I&C work scope * Support planning in Primavera P6 including L2-L3-L4 schedule milestone and task decomposition and budget and schedule planning. * Support the implementation of an integrated control system comprised of Curtiss Wright RTIME HSI components and RTP controllers. * Provide oversight, instruction, and mentoring on development of PI&Ds, control system architecture drawings, control logic and loop diagrams, instrument installation drawings, and other engineering deliverables. * Assist in development and review of system and component-level I&C detailed design deliverables as required. * Perform engineering and design evaluations in the application of nuclear codes and standards, licensing requirements, and NRC regulations. * Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers in applicable nuclear and non-nuclear related design standards. * Provide technical direction and oversight of supplier projects, working with the contract adminis