Chief Engineer

Role Description
We are looking for a Chief Engineer who will support the Engineering Director (ED) for the developing, managing, and maintaining a full complement of R&D, engineering, and design capabilities in the newcleo's Global LFR Engineering department (ENG) team progressing our exciting lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) projects.

Main Activities

1. Support the ED with the delivery of Functional, Safety, Legislative, Technical, Capability, Business and Commercial responsibility in terms of technical and quality content and efficiency.
2. Support the ED for the integration of all the engineering Areas/Units across the different design phases, in order to achieve the technical project objectives, statutory requirements, and regulatory expectations in the most efficient and effective manner.
3. Supports ED in approval of the Design Plan proposed by Lead Project Engineer.
4. Support the ED for the operational direction of the Engineering Department: resources management, development and training.
5. Responsible for reporting on budgetary, schedule, Key-Performance Indicator's aspects of Programme across ENG.
6. Support ED for the development and maintenance of the Engineering functional procedures and legislative requirements compliance.
7. Management of the function SQEP process within ENG.
8. Accountable to establish the training budget and development programs orientation of the ENG personnel.
9. Supervise and support the Area Managers to ensure the final quality of the set of deliverables in accordance with the efficiency objectives established for each task.
10. Support ED in getting the necessary background to formulate choice about design in-house or buy outsourced design packages.
11. Supporting the supervision of quality for engineering outputs to the adherence to standards, legislation and contractual requirements, with a focus on feedbacks across all involved Units (cross cutting disciplinary Areas or Interfaces checks).
12. Accountable to ED for the checking and approval of the scope readiness for design process stages.
13. Assess and approve the technical specifications for plant modifications, designed to the improvement of nuclear safety and optimization of technological process.
14. Monitor and control the implementation of plant modifications with compliance to approved specifications.
15. Monitor and control the activities of plant designer and contractors, related to engineering, modification implementation and R&D activities related to optimization of plant operation.
16. To support Project Engineers for the identification of the logic and priority for the delivery of the technical documents across within ENG and other departments for a specific Project.
17. Promoting the technical task forces supporting and advising towards resolution of engineering issues and complex/multidiscipline problem solving across within ENG.
18. Proactively initiates and promotes continuous improvement into policies and procedures.
19. LFE/REX (lesson learned) from project delivery evaluation and implementation into policies and procedures.
20. Responsible for CAPEX - OPEX forecast with Engineering Department.
21. To apply the company procedures for Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Systems and Organizational Models.
22. Maintaining safety, discipline and control of allocated staff and contractors in accordance with HR Guidelines.

Desired Qualifications

1. M.Sc. in Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering or equivalent.
2. For all locations: Working knowledge of English is a must.
3. For location in Italy: Fluent Italian, French is a plus.
4. For location in France: Fluent French, Italian is a plus.
5. For location in UK: Italian or French is a plus.
6. Extensive Engineering Management and Workplace Experience (minimum 15 years continuous and technical relevant experience of which at least 10 technical authority/signatory), ideally in the field of generation IV nuclear systems, or SMRs.
7. Meaningful and rich experience in a managerial role within the industry (Nuclear Industry Experience is a plus), including experience with project management.
8. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with demonstrated experience managing complex projects and R&D programs.
9. Proven track record in people management, development and leadership of performance improvement and culture change.
10. Specialism in one or more of the areas typical of a Tier 2 Nuclear design.
11. Comprehensive nuclear engineering technical knowledge.
12. Extensive knowledge of QA systems and their practical application.
13. Extensive knowledge of the provisions related to the Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Management System.