Director of Engineering

Orano; Oak Ridge (TN); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Orano in Oak Ridge, Tennessee seeks a Director of Engineering for Project IKE to lead all engineering activities from design through commissioning on site, ensuring alignment with quality, safety, schedule and budget.

You will coordinate closely with the Owner's team, secure major milestones, manage risks and contracts, provide regulatory support to NRC, and build and lead a cross‑functional engineering organization dedicated to safe, compliant project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project from design through commissioning with Owner's team as primary contact.
• Ensure milestones including design variants, approvals, permits, contract execution, testing and commissioning are achieved.
• Identify uncertainties and risks; mobilize SMEs; facilitate trade‑offs and decision processes; provide follow‑up.
• Own project performance with a living Project Management Plan; manage quality, traceability, document control, scope and interfaces.
• Provide regulatory support to NRC; supply evidence and documentation for compliance with project commitments.
• Assume Prime Contractor accountability: construction organization; mobilize supply chains; implement health, safety and environmental measures; manage contracts and regulatory interactions.
• Build, organize, and lead the project engineering team; recruit and coordinate across cross‑functional resources.

Job description

Director of Engineering – Project IKE (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)

Oversee all engineering activities for Project IKE, ensuring design, procurement, fabrication, and testing meet quality, safety, schedule, and budget standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall Project Leadership: Lead the project end to end, from design through commissioning, in close coordination with the Owner's team, serving as their primary point of contact.
• Ensure the successful completion of all major project milestones, including order confirmation, selection of design variants and optimizations, document approvals, permits and authorizations, contract execution, testing, and commissioning.
• Identify uncertainties and risks, mobilize subject‑matter expertise, build consensus, organize trade‑off decisions and decision‑making processes, and provide ongoing follow‑up.
• Project Performance Management: Own overall project performance, supported by a comprehensive Project Management Plan that you will develop and maintain as a living document. Beyond schedule and resource management, take responsibility for quality, traceability, document control, scope management, and interface management.
• Regulatory Support: Support the Owner in its interactions with regulatory authorities, particularly the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), by providing the evidence and documentation needed to demonstrate compliance with project commitments.
• Assume full Prime Contractor accountability, including overall construction organization; mobilization of supply chains and industry partners; implementation of health, safety, and environmental compliance measures (including site safety coordination); contracting strategy and associated contract management; and representation before regulatory and administrative authorities.
• Financial and Risk Management: Monitor budgets, risks (and their mitigation), opportunities, and allocated resources on both an annual and multi‑year basis. Consolidate financial data and maintain a multi‑year view of commitments and expenditures. Manage a portion of the project's financial contingency reserves. Own the project's financial reporting and associated key performance indicators (KPIs) within your scope of responsibility.
• Build, organize, and lead your own team, which you will be responsible for recruiting. Operate on a subsidiarity basis with existing cross‑functional resources within the project and across the Group.