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TerraPower

Develops advanced nuclear reactors and isotopes

Manager, Integration & Facility Engineering

Engineering LeadershipPosted on Nov 12
Full-timeEverett, WA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in mechanical, chemical, civil, structural, or another relevant engineering discipline is required.
  • At least 10 years of relevant engineering experience involving complex process facilities, building systems, or multidisciplinary engineering integration is required.
  • Experience leading engineering teams, including responsibility for technical quality, priorities, and personnel development, is required.
  • Demonstrated experience integrating process equipment with facility layouts, utilities, HVAC, and supporting infrastructure is required.
  • Strong understanding of HVAC and facility engineering principles, including environmental control, utility capacity, equipment access, and maintainability, is required.
  • Experience coordinating external engineering firms, equipment suppliers, and construction partners is required.
  • Experience developing or reviewing engineering scopes of work, design criteria, specifications, and multidisciplinary design deliverables is required.
  • Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs, resolve interface issues, and communicate decisions clearly is required.
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills are required to coordinate work across multiple projects and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, manage, and develop the Process Integration and HVAC engineers, as well as structural engineers or other facility engineering personnel assigned to the team.
  • Establish clear responsibilities, technical expectations, performance objectives, and development plans.
  • Support the Project Management Office in coordinating staffing, priorities, and assignments with project and engineering leadership to meet project commitments and resolve competing resource needs.
  • Identify capability gaps and support hiring, staff augmentation, and use of external engineering expertise.
  • Establish consistent engineering practices across projects while tailoring solutions to each facility’s process needs, constraints, and design maturity.
  • Promote collaboration, accountability, and timely resolution of issues across disciplines and organizational boundaries.
  • Lead the integration of production processes and equipment with facility layouts, utilities, environmental controls, and building infrastructure.
  • Ensure process needs are translated into coordinated facility design inputs, including equipment footprints, utility demands, heat loads, access requirements, and installation constraints.
  • Oversee development and coordination of layouts addressing personnel, material, product, and waste flows in collaboration with Operations, Quality, radiation protection, and other stakeholders.
  • Coordinate interfaces among process equipment, hot cells, cleanrooms, HVAC systems, utility distribution, and building structures.
  • Ensure facility designs accommodate equipment delivery, installation, replacement, maintenance, and operational access.
  • Identify integration gaps and spatial conflicts early, coordinating resolution with responsible engineering disciplines and external partners.
  • Evaluate provisions for future capacity, flexibility, and expansion without unnecessarily increasing near-term scope.
  • Provide technical leadership and oversight for HVAC engineering, including design criteria, system concepts, specifications, calculations, and design reviews.
  • Ensure HVAC designs address temperature, humidity, cleanliness, pressure relationships, ventilation, filtration, and process heat loads, as applicable.
  • Coordinate airflow and pressure strategies with nuclear containment, radiation protection, Quality, and process engineering to address product protection and containment needs.
  • Coordinate HVAC monitoring, alarms, controls, and operating sequences with instrumentation and controls engineers and building management system stakeholders.
  • Ensure facility utility capacities and distribution arrangements align with equipment requirements, operating scenarios, and appropriate design margins.
  • Where structural engineering falls within the team, oversee coordination of equipment loads, support structures, anchorage, seismic requirements, and building modifications.
  • Ensure discipline-specific designs and calculations receive review and approval by appropriately qualified engineers.
  • Serve as a key engineering interface with architecture and engineering firms, cleanroom suppliers, facility equipment vendors, and construction partners.
  • Coordinate development of scopes of work, design criteria, technical specifications, and engineering inputs for external partners.
  • Establish clear scope boundaries and interface responsibilities between TPI, equipment suppliers, and facility designers.
  • Review partner deliverables for consistency with process needs, facility requirements, and coordinated engineering inputs.
  • Lead multidisciplinary facility design reviews and track comments, decisions, and actions to closure.
  • Coordinate resolution of technical questions, design discrepancies, and field issues with the responsible engineers and project teams.
  • Support constructability and installation planning by providing timely engineering decisions and coordinated design information.
  • Work with the Engineering Governance & Configuration team to establish and maintain facility requirements, interface definitions, design bases, and verification expectations.
  • Ensure team deliverables follow TPI’s engineering procedures and configuration management practices.
  • Assess proposed process and equipment changes for impacts on facility layouts, HVAC, utilities, structures, and construction scope.
  • Coordinate technical input to change evaluations, including impacts on safety, quality, operations, cost, and schedule.
  • Ensure approved changes are incorporated into affected facility documents, models, specifications, and external partner deliverables.
  • Maintain visibility of open assumptions, unresolved interfaces, and technical decisions that could affect design progression or project delivery.
  • Support development of engineering scope, estimates, schedules, and resource plans for integration and facility engineering work.
  • Monitor deliverable progress, identify emerging risks, and coordinate recovery actions with project management and engineering leadership.
  • Support procurement, fabrication, construction, installation, and commissioning through technical reviews and issue resolution.
  • Coordinate with commissioning, qualification, and validation teams to ensure facility acceptance criteria and testing needs are incorporated into designs.
  • Ensure Operations and maintenance stakeholders participate in relevant design reviews and readiness activities.
  • Support turnover of accurate facility documentation, operating information, and configuration records.
  • Capture lessons learned and apply improvements across TPI projects.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in radiopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, nuclear, biotechnology, chemical processing, or other highly regulated facilities is preferred.
  • Experience with cleanrooms, controlled environments, radiological facilities, or hot cell installations is preferred.
  • Familiarity with current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements and their application to facility layouts, environmental controls, and operational flows is preferred.
  • Experience with pressure zoning, containment ventilation, filtration, and building automation systems is preferred.
  • Familiarity with structural and seismic considerations for equipment installation and facility design is preferred.
  • Experience supporting projects from concept development through construction, commissioning, qualification, and operational turnover is preferred.
  • Experience with modular facility or cleanroom delivery approaches is preferred.
  • Familiarity with building information modeling and multidisciplinary model coordination is preferred.
  • A Professional Engineer license or other relevant professional credentials is preferred.

About the Company

TerraPower

Develops advanced nuclear reactors and isotopes

TerraPower develops advanced nuclear technologies to provide carbon-free energy and medical isotopes. The company works on next-generation reactors such as the Traveling Wave Reactor, Molten Chloride Fast Reactor, and sodium fast reactor. Its products generate electricity through fission in these next-gen designs, and the medical isotope work involves extracting isotopes like Actinium-225 for cancer treatment via partnerships (e.g., with Radiopharm). TerraPower generates revenue through technology licensing, partnerships, and supply agreements, serving utilities, government agencies, and medical institutions. The company differentiates itself by pursuing a diverse portfolio of reactor technologies and by combining power generation with medical isotope applications, complemented by collaborations and licensing to bring technologies to market. Its goal is to provide scalable, carbon-free energy while addressing medical needs through isotope production and new reactor deployments.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$1.6B
Headquarters
Bellevue, WA
Founded
2008

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