Director, Balance of Plant

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Kairos Power

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201 - 500 employees

⚡ Energy

🔬 Science

Energy • Science • Engineering

Kairos Power is a mission-driven engineering company focused on delivering clean, affordable, and safe energy through advanced reactor technology. The company specializes in the integrated design, licensing, and demonstration of a fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor, known as KP-FHR, which aims to be cost-competitive with natural gas and offers a path to a clean energy system with a near zero carbon footprint. With a focus on innovative engineering and a mission to improve quality of life while protecting the environment, Kairos Power's advanced reactor technology is designed for high availability, performance, and safety, featuring accident-resistant fuel and low-pressure coolant. The technology supports grid resiliency and security by providing dispatchable power, reducing maintenance and lifecycle costs, and enhancing the integration with renewable energy sources.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for balance-of-plant systems, including heat transport, high-temperature steam Rankine cycles, power generation, service water, treated water, and compressed air systems • Establish department technical direction and decision boundaries aligned with company strategy and technical authorities • Lead engineering delivery from conceptual sizing through detailed design, vendor package review, and commissioning support • Own design reviews, technical risk, requirements, calculations, analyses, specifications, drawings, design reports, interface documents, and test plans • Ensure compliance with applicable requirements, codes, standards, and safety functions • Oversee supplier technical execution, including selection, bid evaluations, equipment specifications, design reviews, qualification programs, factory acceptance testing, and issue resolution • Evaluate BOP design and supplier changes for impacts on interfaces, plant performance, safety, and commissioning readiness • Build relationships with external organizations while maintaining accountability for company technical requirements and engineering decisions • Translate company strategy into measurable organizational priorities and decision principles • Communicate scope, schedule, risk, and resource tradeoffs across the organization • Ensure strategic priorities are executed, take corrective action, and remove systemic barriers • Document and communicate technical and safety risks, mitigations, and risk acceptance decisions • Engage in mission-critical technical or organizational decisions, crises, external reviews, and critical deliverables • Build the organization and leadership pipeline through recruitment, staffing, and leadership development • Hold senior leaders and technical leads accountable for capability, succession, performance, engagement, and retention • Correct systemic operational or compliance weaknesses and sustain improvements • Communicate organizational direction and tradeoffs to leadership, teams, and cross-functional partners • Establish alignment across teams, resolve conflicts, and escalate broader leadership tradeoffs • Set the organizational tone for accountability, integrity, psychological safety, and mission stewardship • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent • 15+ years of progressively responsible engineering experience involving power generation, thermal-fluid systems, process systems, nuclear systems, or other complex industrial systems • 7+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience managing engineering teams with multiple engineering disciplines • Experience managing engineering managers or technical leads with accountability for outcomes across multiple teams and work sites • Experience working with suppliers, OEMs, engineering contractors, or other external technical organizations • Experience leading technical development and qualification of major equipment through external suppliers or OEMs • Experience supporting construction, commissioning, startup, or operation of complex power generation or industrial facilities • Experience with integrated power plant systems, including modern high-temperature steam Rankine cycles and interactions between heat transport, power conversion, auxiliary systems, and plant infrastructure • Strong systems thinking across traditional engineering and organizational boundaries • Ability to lead and support recruitment and staffing requirements • Proactive, organized, adaptable, and able to thrive in fast-paced, multi-tasked environments • Knowledge of integrated power plant architecture, thermal-fluid systems, power generation systems, auxiliary systems, major plant equipment, interfaces, and steam generator technologies • Knowledge of equipment procurement, supplier engineering, manufacturing, testing, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle considerations • Skill in leading and developing multidisciplinary engineering organizations and holding teams accountable for technical and execution outcomes • Skill in translating program objectives into engineering strategies, priorities, resource plans, and measurable commitments • Skill in technical decision-making, trade studies, risk assessment, problem solving, and resolution of complex cross-system issues • Ability to establish accountability while empowering managers, technical leads, and engineers to make decisions at the appropriate level • Ability to operate effectively in a first-of-a-kind environment with technical uncertainty, evolving requirements, and competing priorities • Ability to communicate complex technical issues, uncertainties, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders • Authorization by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information, where applicable • Ability to work weekends occasionally, maintain schedule flexibility, and work extended hours when needed • Ability to travel up to 25%

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages • Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents • Paid Vacation • 401(k) • Pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

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