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TerraPower MCFR Mechanical Design Discipline Manager in Bellevue, Washington
TITLE: MCFR Mechanical Design Discipline Manager LOCATION: Bellevue, WA TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits. TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. MCFR Mechanical Design Discipline Manager TerraPower is seeking a MCFR Mechanical Design Discipline Manager that is responsible for technical and personnel oversight for MCFR Mechanical Design, reporting to the MCFR Director of Engineering. This role managed discipline work process execution to assure technical adequacy in accordance with company, contract, and industry standards. The Mechanical Design Discipline Manager supportd projects in functional-related matters, including technical support, training, staffing requirements and personnel performance. This people manager roleis expected to allot ongoing and on-demand technical contribution that ensures appropriate performance of project(s) technical scope. Responsibilities: * Serve as the primary point of contact for MCFR Mechanical Design * Inform engineering management of major emerging technical issues * Interface with regulators, stakeholders, and customers on discipline design issues * Ensure periodic meetings with discipline engineers to ensure appropriate communication of discipline and project information including process improvements and lessons learned * Develop the engineering staffing plan for the discipline using input from the projects * Support the hiring and onboarding processes by writing job descriptions, setting interview panels, and performing interviews and support the hiring and onboarding processes * Resolve priority conflicts in conjunction with the projects when issues arise that compete for resources. Elevate those that cannot be resolved at the discipline manager level * Support employee development through mentoring, training, 1:1s, professional development goal setting, and challenging assignments * Develop, maintain, use, and incorporate discipline guidelines (e.g., design criteria, design guides, desktop instructions, design notes) * Ensure that work process execution and technical adequacy are in accordance with contract requirements, project standards and industry standards * Approve technical documents within the discipline * Identify improvement opportunities and cause work process changes to be initiated and expedited * Perform personnel evaluations at mid-year and year-end including input from appropriate sources internal and external to Engineering, and providing useful performance and career development feedback * Approve weekly timecard submissions for indiv