Company Overview
Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.
Job Summary
Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Manager, Engineering Operations that is responsible for managing and leading an 24/7 operations and testing team in Albuquerque, NM. In this role, you will lead a team of operators to ensure safe, continuous testing operations.
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Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 24/7 operators including shift management and shift logs
- Review and Implement Experimental Test Campaigns
- Mitigate conflicts that may impact final execution
- Manage an entrant team including coordination of entries into lab testing areas
- Coordinate with EHS (Env, Health, Safety) team to write Job Hazard Analyses for all complex hazardous work
- Lead and conducting Pre-Job briefs to various stakeholders within the organization
- Develop testing procedures
- Collaborate with Engineering Teams to understand the scope of test and hazards associated with the test
- Develop Operator Training Materials and coordinate with Learning & Development team for deployment of training
- Operate SCADA/HMI/Control Boards, high temperature pilot systems, pumps, valves, heaters blowers, compressors
- Troubleshoot equipment, electrical and instrumentation issues
- Periodically makes rounds of the plant to visually check equipment to validate proper operation
- Follow standard operating and emergency procedures until issues are resolved
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- B.S. degree in Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with reading and understanding P&IDs
- 5-10 years of experience working at industrial plants that require 24/7 operations (e.g. Chemical, Nuclear, etc)
- Preferred experience with high temperature test systems, including molten salt applications
- Broad experience across power plant engineering topics
- Ability to foster an environment that creates new and better ways to be successful
- Capability to effectively guide behaviors and actions of others
- Ability to motivate and guide people to get the job done, and to bring out their best
- Inspires and motivates team members to drive the Kairos mission forward in their day-to-day work
- Excellent communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills; must be able to interact and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others
- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues
Physical Conditions
- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and the like
- Setting up and transferring temporary structures (e.g. scaffolding, ladders)
- Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
- Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 50 pounds in all directions
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Operating motor vehicles, heavy equipment or machinery
- Use hand tools
- Ability to wear Respiratory protection and Tyvek as minimum PPE requirements
Environmental Conditions
- General office environment
- Low temperatures
- High temperatures
- Outdoor environment or elements such as precipitation and wind
- Noisy environments
- Small and/or enclosed spaces
- Odors or fumes from chemicals or chemical reactions
- Evaluated heights
- Accessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
- High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced
Safety and PPE
- Ensure compliance with Control of Hazardous Energy and LOTO programs
- Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
- Manipulating, cleaning and disposal of hazardous materials
- Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
- Color identification: detecting, distinguishing, recognizing and identifying colors
- Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes
Travel
- Some travel may be required, up to 10%
Additional Requirements
- Occasionally requires working weekends
- Frequently requires schedule flexibility
- Occasionally requires non-standard work-week hours
- Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines
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About our Benefits
We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.
Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810