Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a with a strong technical background who leverages their diverse experience to work with teams to create and maintain their processes and procedures supporting integration of Kairos Power Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor technology. You will work in a small, highly empowered team where every team member is directly responsible for the success of the program, by ensuring teams have lean processes and procedures to support the design, manufacturing, and operations of equipment and systems.

Responsibilities

• Use strong technical background to quickly develop knowledge of technology, work practices, and engineering work to develop effective and practical procedures, processes, and guidelines for teams.
• You will be expected to drive and deliver results by collaborating with cross-functional workstreams to ensure effective procedures, processes, and guidelines evolve/scale with business needs.
• Prepare and revise procedures, processes, and guidelines (including comment resolution) through soliciting user feedback and from leadership direction.
• Leverage your technical background to help drive process improvements, standardization, and streamline processes.
• Coordinate the update of design procedures, processes, and guidelines as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Mechanical, Nuclear, Chemical, or other related engineering or technical discipline.
• Demonstrated ability of applying technical knowledge to deliver results while being able to thrive in an environment with evolving requirements
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to be independent, resourceful, and proactive in the face of the lack of information or unknowns
• Experience in developing and implementing both administrative and technical procedures, process design and leading process improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and translate complex processes into lean processes for multiple audiences.
• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Experience in personally working through aspects of detailed design, procurement activities, testing/operations, and manufacturing/construction, desired
• Experience with working with design and delivery of complex and multi-disciplinary system assemblies or multisystem power or industrial plant operations, desired
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues

Physical Conditions

• Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
• Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
• Communicating with others to exchange information

Environmental Conditions

• General office environment
• Noisy environments (if in production areas)
• Small and/or enclosed spaces
• Odors or fumes from chemicals or chemical reactions
• High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced

Safety and PPE

• Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
• Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
• Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes, as required

Travel

• Some travel may be required (up to 20%) to other Kairos Power offices

Additional Requirements

• Requires schedule flexibility
• Occasionally requires non-standard work-week hours
• Occasionally requires extended hours to support critical project timelines

The salary range for this position is $133,900 to $157,500 for employees working onsite at our Alameda, CA headquarters. The range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired in California. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

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About our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

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

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.

Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A\_to\_part\_810