Director of Engineering & Chief Engineer, Nuclear Recycling

SHINE Technologies; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

SHINE Technologies is seeking an engineering leader for our used nuclear fuel (UNF) Recycling product line. The Director of Engineering & Chief Engineer - Recycling will build the core team, own design from prelim through licensing, procurement, and construction, and set the technical standards for safety and performance.

You will work with NRC licensing, oversee hazard analyses, and guide cross-disciplinary decisions while maintaining rigorous risk management and a first-principles approach.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and leading a core engineering team.
• Ability to hire and retain senior engineers.
• Strong regulatory judgment with NRC experience.
• Experience navigating complex design and regulatory requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in Nuclear/Chemical Engineering or related.
• 10+ years of engineering experience including leadership.
• Knowledge of nuclear fuel cycle processes.
• Nuclear safety analysis experience.
• Experience scaling from Pilot to Commercial facilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the core Recycling engineering team and set the technical standard to which it works.
• Own engineering scope, schedule and budget for the Pilot facility.
• Set the tone for a challenging program.
• Bring resilience and levity, and judgment about which fights are worth winning.
• Own the integrity of the baseline design and hold the team to it.
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to progress design and licensing of the Recycling Pilot facility.
• Own the Engineering and Design.
• Serve as Chief Engineer for the Pilot facility.
• Make the final call on cross-discipline technical trade-offs.
• Own the requirements strategy.
• Set and defend the approach to codes and standards, seismic design, and application of nuclear quality requirements, applying a first-principles, graded approach, and removing any requirements that cannot be justified.
• Explicitly weigh risk against benefit on engineering decisions.
• Understand regulatory margin.
• Hold technical positions under pressure when the evidence supports it.
• Partner with licensing to develop defensible regulatory positions, propose creative alternatives, and carry them to the NRC.
• Set the technical standard for equipment specification and vendor requirements.
• Hold the team and design partners to it.
• Set direction, review and when necessary perform nuclear analyses in areas such as radionuclide inventories, dose rates, biological shielding and waste classification.
• Lead hazard and operability studies (HAZOPs) and design reviews.
• Own equipment layout decisions that maximize process efficiency, factoring in operation, maintenance, and safety considerations.
• Identify and evaluate key technical project risks, develop solutions, and communicate to senior management.
• Ensure the appropriate level of documentation is maintained.
• Success in the First Eighteen Months: A core engineering team is hired, retained, and operating to a defined technical standard.
• The baseline design has reached an agreed maturity and is under configuration control.
• The requirements set has been reduced to a defensible minimum, with the reasoning documented.

Skills

Team leadership

Hiring

Strategic thinking

Regulatory liaison

Risk assessment

Decision making

Technical judgment

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or related discipline

Job description

SHINE Technologies is seeking an engineering leader for our used nuclear fuel (UNF) Recycling product line. The Director of Engineering & Chief Engineer - Recycling will build the core team, own design from prelim through licensing, procurement, and construction, and set the technical standards for safety and performance.

You will work with NRC licensing, oversee hazard analyses, and guide cross-disciplinary decisions while maintaining rigorous risk management and a first-principles approach.