Director of Operations Programs & Leadership Development

TerraPower LLC.; Everett (WA); In loco; USD 149.000 - 193.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Competitive compensation

Discretionary incentive

Medical & wellness benefits

401k plan

PTO 21 days

Holidays 10

Relocation assistance

Professional development opportunities

Descrizione del lavoro

TerraPower Isotopes in Everett, Washington, is seeking a Manager, Operations Programs to build scalable governance across operations programs and lead cross-functional teams. This role focuses on leadership development, process maturity, and ensuring compliant, high-performing operations as the organization scales.

The successful candidate will combine strong program-management capability with technical aptitude, coaching, and the ability to develop leaders in a growing environment.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, operations, or another technical or related field and 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in operations, engineering, technical program management, or a related environment. Master’s degree in engineering, business administration, or a related technical or management field preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of experience working in the nuclear or other industry under an established radiation protection program and under a regulated framework.
• Demonstrated technical aptitude and intellectual curiosity, with the ability to rapidly understand complex scientific, engineering, and operational issues and effectively engage technical subject-matter experts.
• Demonstrated success managing, coaching, and developing professional employees, including developing high-potential individuals toward increasing levels of organizational, people, and operational leadership.
• Strong people leadership skills, including the ability to recognize individual strengths and development needs, delegate meaningful responsibility, provide candid feedback, establish accountability, and develop independent leaders rather than dependent followers.
• Exceptional organizational and program-management skills, with demonstrated ability to establish structure, priorities, accountability, and effective execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple technical disciplines, stakeholders, and competing priorities, including leadership through influence without direct authority.
• Experience building or scaling teams, program-management functions, operations organizations, or leadership capability in a growing or changing environment.
• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable program-management or process-improvement training or certification is a plus.
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence tools and their effective application to program management, information systems, or business processes is a plus.
• Military leadership or technical operations experience is a plus.
• Ability to work flexible hours as operational and business needs require.

Mansioni

• Own the development, governance, implementation, performance, and continuous improvement of assigned TPI Operations programs, including Training & Qualification, Documentation & Process Management, Operations Performance Improvement, and Compliance.
• Establish scalable program frameworks, standards, governance, and management processes that support reliable production, organizational growth, and increasing cGMP maturity.
• Establish measures of program effectiveness and ensure assigned programs are effectively implemented, sustained, evaluated, and improved as operational needs evolve.
• Hire, manage, coach, and develop Program Administrators responsible for assigned Operations programs, establishing clear priorities, expectations, accountability, and appropriate decision-making authority.
• Coach and develop team members from strong individual program owners into broader organizational leaders through coaching, feedback, mentoring, delegation, and progressively challenging cross-functional and people-leadership assignments.
• Build a leadership pipeline capable of assuming increasing responsibility for programs, projects, and operational teams as TPI grows, while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, technical rigor, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Lead selected complex, non-routine, and strategically important Operations initiatives from problem definition and planning through implementation and sustained execution.
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams to resolve technical and operational interfaces, dependencies, competing priorities, and assigned actions.
• Rapidly develop sufficient understanding of complex technical issues to ask effective questions, challenge assumptions, integrate subject-matter expertise, and translate technical and operational needs into executable programs and decisions.
• Partner with Operations leadership to establish program priorities aligned with production objectives, organizational growth, regulatory requirements, and business needs.
• Advise the Director of Operations on program performance, organizational and technical risks, resource requirements, emerging needs, and recommended priorities, and provide program information to other TPI leaders as required.
• Anticipate program and organizational needs as TPI grows and recommend improvements to systems, resources, responsibilities, and organizational capabilities.

Conoscenze

Engineering degree

10+ years experience

Nuclear industry exp

Technical aptitude

People leadership

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

PMP/Lean Six Sigma (plus)

AI tools familiarity (plus)

Military leadership exp (plus)

Flexible hours

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/science/operations/technical field

Master’s degree in engineering/ MBA (preferred)

Descrizione del lavoro

TerraPower Isotopes in Everett, Washington, is seeking a Manager, Operations Programs to build scalable governance across operations programs and lead cross-functional teams. This role focuses on leadership development, process maturity, and ensuring compliant, high-performing operations as the organization scales.

The successful candidate will combine strong program-management capability with technical aptitude, coaching, and the ability to develop leaders in a growing environment.