Interface Manager

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Project Overview:

Bechtel is the licensing, engineering, procurement, and construction partner on TerraPower’s Natrium team. Selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program, Natrium is participating in a DOE initiative to re-establish U.S. leadership in nuclear energy that provides matching funding to industry to design and build an operational advanced reactor. TerraPower, a leading advanced generation technology company founded by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, will be deploying its 345 MWe sodium fast reactor (SFR), called Natrium. The Natrium plant features an advanced, cost-competitive reactor design that is safer, simpler, easier and less costly to construct, less expensive to operate, and able to provide energy that is competitive with fossil fuels. It also features an innovative molten salt energy storage system designed to be complementary to solar and wind power by evening out the peaks and valleys in production when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. With the reactor and energy storage output combined, the plant can produce more than 500 MWe of power.

Other Team Natrium partners include GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Energy Northwest, PacifiCorp, and Duke Energy, along with support from a number of national laboratories and universities. This DOE Program has the potential to be the largest funding program for advanced nuclear power in U.S. history and will shape the future of nuclear energy for decades. 

We invite you to join our team for this historic and interesting opportunity!

Job Summary:

The Interface Manager, with a focus on Electrical and Control Systems reports to the Project Engineering Manager (PEM) and will be the lead interface between Bechtel and Terra Power, working closely with the customer on Natrium design and requirements. The selected candidate will be the primary source of professional oversight of project delivery of the client’s design requirements, when it comes to Electrical and Control Systems.

This role will be based in Bellevue, WA with as needed business trips to Reston, VA. #LI-TN1

Major Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the handoff’s between Terra Power system design and the Bechtel physical design are received per the schedule; and contain all of the required inputs.
• Ensuring that the Terra Power vendor design submittals are reviewed by the appropriate Bechtel engineering discipline.
• Keeping apprised of Terra Power design changes and impacts to Bechtel design scope
• Coordinating Bechtel design responses back to Terra Power and ensuring Bechtel has appropriate understanding of task and requirements prior to start of a particular scope of work
• Assists the Terra Power Engineer leadership team to understand the Bechtel design processes and interface needs to support the design schedule and the execution and hand off of that design to construction.
• Manage work process execution and assure technical adequacy in accordance with company, client, contract and industry codes and standards
• Resolve and respond to the client, regulator, or field-initiated questions on engineering during the appropriate execution phase
• Communicate complex technical issues and recommend solutions to Terra Power, project engineering management, and functional management as directed and as appropriate.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• BS or advanced degree in a recognized Engineering discipline (preferably related to traditional Electrical Engineering, or Control Systems and PLC) from an accredited university or college with at least 10-13 years of progressive related experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

Basic Qualifications:

• Must be authorized to live and work in the US without sponsorship
• Must be able to complete a pre-employment drug screen and background check
• Possess active security clearance or ability to obtain security clearance

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience working in a nuclear plant or DOE nuclear facility.
• Experience executing projects taking them through design, procurement, and delivery to construction of design and procurements.
• Experience in selecting and supporting the development of Control Systems design and integrating that design with the Distributed Control System (DCS) vendor for their development of software and control and I/O panels.
• Experience in supporting the development of the electrical engineering cable routing and terminations; as well as obtaining design inputs necessary to size the key components of the electrical distribution system.
• Knowledge of industry and regulatory guides, codes, and standards 
• Proficient knowledge of project engineering processes and procedures
• Demonstrated skill in client interface and relations
• Excellent listening, oral and written communication, planning, and organizational skills are essential.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Bechtel Corporate guides and standards.
• Professional Engineering License (or ability to obtain within 12 months).
• Prior experience working in a Nuclear Quality and Safety Environment.
• Extensive technical knowledge of Quality, engineering systems, engineering calculations, applications of engineering methods and materials, applications of computer software to engineering problems to ensure the design is cost-effective, in accordance with applicable safety, health, environmental regulations, customer requirements, and engineering codes and standards.
• Working knowledge of engineering procedures, covering discipline deliverables, production, and control, as well as organization and responsibilities for the Engineering Department.
• Familiarity with other Bechtel functions such as Procurement, Construction , ES&H,including key processes
• Thorough knowledge of business practices, project forecasting, and project control systems required.
• Detailed knowledge of the interfaces between the various Bechtel engineering disciplines; understanding the handoff’s that are required between each to progress design; and imparting/assisting the Terrapower team in understanding that relationship.
• Detailed knowledge of the interfaces between Bechtel Engineering and construction; understanding the handoffs required to ensure the construction team has a back log with the equipment and design necessary to execute the construction of the plant.
• Prior experience in executing an EPC contract using Construction Work Volumes / Advance Work Packages.

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