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Aalo Atomics is pioneering factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. The company is based in Austin, TX and is rapidly growing as it works to deploy the world's first fleet of advanced microreactors.
You will lead the engineering organization responsible for sustaining and supporting Aalo's operating facilities in Idaho. Your primary responsibility is to ensure that Aalo's facility systems remain safe, reliable, properly configured, technically understood, and effectively supported throughout operation, maintenance, testing, and modification. Initially, this organization will support the Aalo-X Critical Assembly Facility at Idaho National Laboratory. Over time, the scope is expected to expand to include Aalo-0, the full-power Aalo-X facility, and other Aalo Idaho facilities.
You report to the Director of Nuclear Safety & Engineering and lead a team of Cognizant System Engineers and facility engineers. You are responsible for engineering execution, people leadership, resource allocation, system health, facility reliability, and coordination across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Nuclear Safety, Quality Assurance, and project organizations.
Key responsibilities include:
**Team Leadership & Capability Development:** Manage, mentor, and develop Cognizant System Engineers and facility engineers. Establish clear roles, responsibilities, priorities, and technical ownership. Conduct regular one-on-ones, performance evaluations, career development planning, and succession planning. Allocate engineering resources based on operational priorities, system condition, facility risk, maintenance needs, and project workload. Recommend CSE assignments and ensure assigned engineers are appropriately trained and qualified. Build the engineering organization and capabilities necessary to support the CAF, Aalo-0, and the Aalo-X reactor.
**System Health & Facility Reliability:** Oversee implementation of Aalo's Cognizant System Engineer and System Engineer functions. Ensure assigned engineers maintain current knowledge of system functions, design requirements, physical configuration, operating condition, and performance criteria. Establish and review system health indicators, performance trends, engineering backlogs, equipment-reliability issues, and obsolescence risks. Ensure degrading conditions, adverse trends, configuration discrepancies, and technical issues are identified, evaluated, corrected, and appropriately escalated. Drive practical improvements in equipment reliability, maintainability, and facility availability.
**Operations & Maintenance Engineering Support:** Ensure Engineering provides appropriate design-basis and technical input to work planning. Support emergent equipment issues, troubleshooting, equipment failures, root-cause evaluations, corrective actions, and recovery plans. Ensure appropriate engineering review of work that could affect configuration-managed SSCs. Ensure post-maintenance and post-modification testing is technically adequate and demonstrates restoration of required functionality. Maintain appropriate organizational boundaries: Engineering provides technical support and design-basis input, while Operations and Maintenance retain responsibility for work control, work release, and execution.
**Configuration & Change Management:** Ensure SDDs/FDDs, drawings, calculations, specifications, vendor information, equipment data, and related technical documents remain complete, accurate, and current. Ensure CSEs participate in configuration walkdowns, design assessments, change reviews, and performance assessments for their assigned systems. Ensure physical, design, software, and document changes are appropriately identified, technically reviewed, approved, tested, documented, and closed. Support effective use of Teamcenter and associated requirements/configuration-management tools. Coordinate engineering interfaces with Nuclear Safety for USQ screening/evaluations and safety-basis changes.
**Facility Modifications & Lifecycle Support:** Support facility modifications, upgrades, and lifecycle activities. Ensure engineering input to design, procurement, installation, testing, and commissioning of new systems and equipment.
The role is based on-site in Idaho Falls, ID. Aalo Atomics offers competitive salary based on technical level, health/dental/vision insurance, paid time off, and corporate gym membership.
**Requirements:**
- Based in the United States
- Willing to work on-site in Idaho Falls, ID
- Ability to meet applicable site-access and nuclear-facility requirements
- U.S. Citizen or U.S. Person in compliance with 10 CFR Part 810; may not hold non-compliant foreign citizenships
- Direct applicants only; no recruiters or staffing agencies
