Engineering Governance Manager, Isotope Systems

Terrapower; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Discretionary short-term incentive

Medical and Wellness Benefits

Parental Leave

401k Plan

PTO

Holiday Schedule

Relocation Assistance

Professional and Educational Support

Flexible Work Schedule

Job summary

TerraPower Isotopes (TPI) seeks a Manager, Engineering Governance & Configuration to lead the systems engineering team across Alpha2, Alpha5, and Alpha30 projects, establishing consistent engineering practices and change control.

The role owns the development and implementation of engineering procedures, interfaces with Quality and Operations, and requires a strong track record in requirements management, verification, and leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant engineering experience, including leadership of engineering teams or technical programs.
• Demonstrated experience applying systems engineering methods to complex, multidisciplinary systems or facilities.
• Experience developing and implementing engineering procedures, configuration management practices, and technical change control processes.
• Strong understanding of requirements management, interface management, technical baselines, design reviews, and verification and validation.
• Ability to translate process expectations into clear, usable procedures and drive adoption across teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people, coordinate priorities across projects, and resolve cross-functional technical and organizational issues.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, and technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop the system engineers assigned to Alpha2, Alpha5, and Alpha30, establishing clear responsibilities, performance expectations, and development plans.
• Support the Project Management Office with staffing, priorities, and assignments with project and engineering leadership to support project commitments and resolve competing resource needs.
• Establish consistent systems engineering practices across projects while tailoring their application to each project's scope, complexity, risk, and lifecycle stage.
• Coach engineers in requirements development, interface management, technical decision-making, and system integration.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, and timely resolution of technical issues across engineering disciplines and project teams.
• Own the engineering procedure framework, ensuring procedures collectively address the work needed to define, design, integrate, verify, and deliver TPI systems and facilities.
• Evaluate existing procedures for completeness, clarity, and usability; identify gaps and lead revisions or development of new procedures.
• Define engineering roles, responsibilities, approval authorities, required deliverables, and interfaces with other functions.
• Establish and maintain expectations for technical reviews, design maturity assessments, decision documentation, and closure of review actions.
• Coordinate engineering procedures with Quality, document control, project management, and commissioning and qualification processes.
• Lead procedure implementation through training, practical guidance, and monitoring of adoption and effectiveness.
• Oversee the development, allocation, and maintenance of stakeholder, facility, system, and subsystem requirements, including traceability to design outputs and verification evidence.
• Guide development and maintenance of system architectures, functional breakdowns, system boundaries, interface definitions, and design bases.
• Ensure system engineers coordinate interfaces among process systems, equipment, nuclear containment, facility infrastructure, and digital and control systems.
• Establish expectations for technical trade studies, assumptions management, technical risk identification, and documentation of engineering decisions.
• Oversee verification and validation planning, including clear acceptance criteria and coordination with testing, commissioning, qualification, and Operations.
• Support the selection and adoption of systems engineering tools, including model-based approaches where they provide practical value.
• Establish and maintain configuration management practices that identify controlled items, define technical baselines, and preserve alignment among requirements, design documentation, equipment configurations, and installed systems.
• Develop and implement an engineering change management process covering change initiation, impact assessment, review, approval, implementation, and closure.
• Ensure proposed changes are evaluated for impacts on safety, quality, requirements, interfaces, cost, schedule, operations, and applicable regulatory commitments.
• Define change approval authorities and coordinate cross-functional change reviews, escalating decisions as appropriate.
• Ensure approved changes are incorporated into affected documents, models, specifications, and other controlled records.
• Establish configuration status tracking and appropriate checks to confirm that documented and physical configurations remain aligned through project delivery and turnover.
• Monitor the effectiveness of engineering processes using practical measures of requirements maturity, change closure, configuration accuracy, and review action completion.
• Capture lessons learned and apply improvements across all three projects.
• Work with internal teams, engineering partners, and suppliers to align deliverables and practices with TPI's engineering expectations.
• Maintain an appropriate balance between engineering rigor and efficient execution.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Job description

TerraPower Isotopes (TPI) seeks a Manager, Engineering Governance & Configuration to lead the systems engineering team across Alpha2, Alpha5, and Alpha30 projects, establishing consistent engineering practices and change control.

The role owns the development and implementation of engineering procedures, interfaces with Quality and Operations, and requires a strong track record in requirements management, verification, and leadership.