Team Lead, Nuclear Waste Management Engineer

Salary Range: $120,000 to $160,000

Benefits: Robust benefits package that includes a 401K plan with %5 employer match, Annual Merit Increase, Annual COLA increase, potential additional bonus, Medical/Dental /Vision Insurance, Life and Disability Insurance, 20 days universal leave

Relocation: Financial assistance available for qualified candidates.

Location: Oak Ridge, TN (outside of Knoxville)

Travel Expectations: potential 10% to headquarters

Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm Monday through Friday

Work Site Expectations: 5 days a week in office

Job Description

This position provides management support to the group that is responsible for developing methods to process and disposition all waste streams generated by the TRISO-X Facility, a nuclear fuel fabrication facility being designed to manufacture TRISO coated-particle-based fuel forms. This includes directing the work of individual contributors on the team, supporting the management of resource and organizational needs of the Waste & Recovery team. This role will also support design, licensing, construction, and operation of the TRISO-X Facility.

Job Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or related discipline from an accredited university or college.
• Typically, seven plus years of relevant engineering after completion of undergraduate study. Graduate degrees typically count as two plus years of experience.
• Willing to work with hazardous materials such as low enriched uranium, nitric acid, and phenolic resin.
• Strong chemistry background to understand concentrations and chemical hazards present in waste streams.
• Knowledge of and experience with manufacturing facility design and approaches to lean manufacturing.
• Experience in design of chemical processing equipment or related systems.
• Understanding of waste permitting in the state of Tennessee.

Job Profile Tasks/Responsibilities

• Support the execution of developing methods to process and disposition all waste streams generated by the TRISO-X Facility, a nuclear fuel fabrication facility being designed to manufacture TRISO coated-particle-based fuel forms using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product / program / project requirements.
• Wastewater holding tanks.
• Wastewater treatment.
• Waste monitoring and surveying.
• Interface with and provide support to waste permitting.
• Work with commercial nondestructive assay equipment (NDA) manufacturers to develop/procure/implement NDA systems to support disposition of waste streams potentially contaminated with low enriched uranium.
• Create and continually update a master list of all waste streams in the TRISO-X Facility.
• Support the design and licensing of the TRISO-X Facility.
• Supports with the management of the utilization of engineering resources across multiple projects and ensures qualified engineers are performing assigned work.
• Lead design cycle sprints and provide direction to ensure the convergence of efforts of engineering team members, partners, and suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality engineering work products are on schedule and within budget as defined by the Project leadership.
• Influences and supports the development of strategy, methodology and technical tools for the area of responsibility, including control of resources and policy formulation.
• Work within a multidisciplinary engineering team to create the next generation nuclear reactor technologies.
• Perform work in accordance with design control procedures, ensuring thorough documentation of work, facilitation of internal and external design reviews, and control of product design configuration data.