Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Mechanical Design, MCFR

Title: Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Mechanical Design, MCFR

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Job Type: Full-time

Terra Power 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, Terra Power 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. Terra Power’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.

Terra Power 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.

Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an affirmative action plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Terra Power’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program is commercializing the technology to operate a fast spectrum, chloride salt cooled molten salt reactor. The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is slated to be the first liquid-fueled, fast spectrum reactor built and operated and will be constructed at Idaho National Laboratory.

Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer, Mechanical Design, MCFR

Terra Power is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Quality Engineer to support the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) Program and the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE). This position reports to the MCFR Mechanical Design Discipline Management. The role centers on maintaining quality in MCFR designs throughout the development cycle, beginning with the MCRE Mockup and evolving towards MCFR Demonstration Reactor Components. You’ll collaborate with engineering teams, suppliers, and partners in a high-performing, multi-disciplinary environment to identify and mitigate risks, recognize opportunities for improvement, and ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations.

This role is hybrid with on-site at least four days per week. The ability to be physically present at our Bellevue, WA headquarters normally and at our Everett, WA laboratory during Mockup construction, as needed, is a requirement.

Join us in this mechanical design role to help advance a first-of-a-kind nuclear reactor towards commercial development.

• Ensure that engineering documentation, including design and test documentation, meets the required quality standards (e.g. SPECs, SOWs, drawings).
• Review vendor documentation including fabrication/shop drawings, weld procedure specifications, weld procedure qualification records, and manufacturing data packages.
• Provide guidance and support to project teams to ensure quality requirements are met and that risks are identified and mitigated.
• Support quality activities at Everett, WA location during Mockup construction phase such as receipt inspection and material handling.
• Ensure receipt inspections of materials are scheduled and completed in accordance with company…