Chief Engineer - Chrysalis

SHINE Technologies, LLC; Janesville, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

SHINE Technologies, LLC is seeking a Chief Engineer to serve as the senior engineering executive for Chrysalis, SHINE's flagship Mo-99 production facility. This hands-on role is the final technical authority for design through commissioning and turnover, ensuring safety, reliability, and on-schedule delivery.

You will integrate engineering across disciplines, lead critical decisions, and report status to the COO and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field.
• 18+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience.
• Experience leading a first-of-a-kind or novel-technology project from design through commissioning.
• Experience operating at a Chief Engineer/VP of Engineering level with direct C-suite communication.
• Deep grounding in system integration, reliability engineering, failure analysis, and design-for-operability.
• Strong leadership and communication skills to represent engineering strategy to executives.

Responsibilities

• Hold single-point executive accountability for engineering execution from design to turnover.
• Serve as final technical authority for system design and major technical decisions on a complex facility.
• Lead resolution of critical- path engineering issues affecting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
• Coordinate resources across mechanical, process, instrumentation, nuclear, safety, and structural disciplines.
• Own engineering risk identification and mitigation strategy for the project.
• Drive design-for-reliability and design-for-operability principles across plant systems.
• Lead or sponsor technical reviews, hazard reviews, and root-cause investigations.
• Serve as engineering signatory for major milestones and readiness.
• Represent Chrysalis engineering strategy and risk to COO and regulators.
• Partner with Finance and Operations on capital planning and schedule decisions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System integration

Hazard reviews

Nuclear regulatory experience

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Chemical/Nuclear or related engineering

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

HAZOP

FMEA

Job description

Description

About the Role

Chrysalis is SHINE's flagship Molybdenum-99 production facility — designed to become the world's largest isotope production facility and a first-of-a-kind, nuclear-enabled chemical processing plant. Getting it right matters: Chrysalis will directly expand the supply of a critical medical isotope used in tens of millions of diagnostic procedures each year, at a moment when the global supply chain badly needs it.

We're looking for a Chief Engineer to serve as SHINE's senior-most engineering executive for Chrysalis — the final technical authority accountable for the integrity of engineering and technical delivery from design through construction support, commissioning, and facility turnover. This is a hands‑on executive role: you will personally engage in the consequential technical, schedule, and risk decisions that determine whether a first‑of‑a‑kind facility performs the way it was designed to, and you'll be the person the executive team turns to for a straight answer on engineering status and risk.

You’ll serve as the final integrator of engineering direction across Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Commissioning, Operations, Quality, and Regulatory — ensuring that execution stays safe, reliable, compliant, and on schedule.

The base salary range for this position is $240,000 - $320,000 per year plus a comprehensive compensation package. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.

What You’ll Do

• Hold single‑point executive accountability for engineering execution of the Chrysalis facility, from design engineering through field engineering, construction support, commissioning, and turnover.
• Serve as final technical authority for system design, integration, and major technical decisions on a first‑of‑a‑kind, complex industrial facility.
• Personally lead resolution of critical‑path technical issues, ambiguous engineering problems, and high‑consequence decisions affecting safety, schedule, cost, or operability.
• Coordinate matrixed engineering resources across mechanical, process, instrumentation and controls, nuclear, safety, structural, systems, and reliability disciplines.
• Own engineering risk identification and mitigation strategy for the project, applying lessons learned from large capital infrastructure delivery.
• Drive design‑for‑reliability and design‑for‑operability principles across plant systems to support industrial‑scale performance and maintainability.
• Lead or sponsor technical review boards, hazard reviews, and root‑cause investigations tied to significant technical or reliability issues.
• Serve as engineering signatory for major design, construction, commissioning, and readiness milestones.
• Represent Chrysalis engineering strategy, status, and risk to the COO, executive leadership, and regulatory representatives.
• Partner with Finance and Operations on capital planning, engineering trade‑offs, and schedule decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Nuclear, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; master's degree or PhD preferred.
• 18+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, including significant senior or executive experience leading large, complex capital infrastructure programs in oil and gas, chemical processing, nuclear, or a comparably regulated, high‑consequence industry.
• A track record of leading a first‑of‑a‑kind or novel‑technology project from design through commissioning, startup, and industrial‑scale operation — you've done this before and know what breaks.
• Prior experience operating at the Chief Engineer, VP of Engineering, or equivalent executive technical authority level with direct accountability to a C‑suite audience.
• Deep grounding in system integration, reliability engineering, failure analysis, and design‑for‑operability principles.
• Comfort leading through technical ambiguity, competing priorities, schedule pressure, and high‑consequence risk.
• Familiarity with hazard reviews such as HAZOP and FMEA and direct engagement with regulatory bodies; NRC or comparable regulatory experience strongly preferred.
• Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to represent engineering strategy and risk to the COO, executive team, and external stakeholders.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

• Ability to remain in a stationary position (e.g., standing or sitting) for extended periods.
• Ability to move within facility environments, including accessing testing areas and operating instrumentation.
• Ability to handle standard laboratory equipment and materials weighing up to 50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Work may occasionally take place in controlled radiation areas under supervision and within regulatory exposure limits.
• Use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including full Tyvek suit while wearing a ventilated hood, lab coats, safety glasses, and dosimeters.
• Work involves moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises.
• Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.
• Although flexible work hours may be available, shift‑work schedules may be required, and extended hours will sometimes be necessary to complete required work assignment.
• Exposure to arc flash and high voltage usage.
• Participation in the site emergency plan drills.

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job, absent undue hardship.

Eligibility for employment is conditioned on the applicant’s ability to qualify for access to information subject to U.S. Export Controls. Additionally, applicant’s eligibility may be conditioned based upon meeting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements for access to Safeguards Information, which typically requires a pre‑employment drug screen, fingerprinting and criminal background check.

SHINE values diversity in all its forms as a critical component of innovation, which is fundamental to our success. Every member of the SHINE community benefits from the talents and experiences of our peers, from the mutual respect we exercise, and from the responsibility we take for our actions.

SHINE Technologies, LLC maintains affirmative action plans for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.