Field Engineer (New Grad)

General Matter; Paducah (KY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term incentives

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

Job summary

General Matter, Inc. in Paducah, KY, is seeking a Construction Field Engineer to join the flagship uranium enrichment project.

You will translate drawings into installed work, coordinate with site teams, and help bring the plant from ground-breaking to turnover on a first-of-a-kind facility. You will own early scopes, work with superintendents, engineers, and the quality team, and develop field records while advancing nuclear quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Construction, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, or Construction Management.
• Evidence of exceptional ability from internships, competitions, or hands-on projects.
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specs.

Responsibilities

• Interpret drawings and flag constructability issues with engineering before field work.
• Draft and track RFIs and submittals for work packages from question to closure.
• Perform quantity takeoffs and report field progress to controls and schedule.
• Verify survey, layout, and as-built data for foundations and utilities.
• Coordinate material deliveries with superintendents and subcontractors.

Skills

Reading drawings

Field coordination

Safety awareness

Quality control

Communication

Estimating takeoffs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Construction Management degree

Tools

Procore

Bluebeam

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Primavera P6

Job description

General Matter is enriching uranium in America.

Our goal is to design, build, and operate the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States.

Our mission is to restore America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel—fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors.

Ultimately, our work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society.

We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.

We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.

Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.

About This Role

As a Construction Field Engineer at General Matter, you'll be on the ground in Paducah from the first months of construction on our flagship uranium enrichment facility. It's a first-of-a-kind plant being built on the site of the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which helped fuel America for sixty years. You'll be the link between design and the field. You'll turn drawings and specifications into installed work, catch problems before they cost the schedule, and build the record that shows the plant was built right.

Most new-grad field engineers start at a large contractor, as one of dozens on a job, and get moved to a new state every eighteen months. Here you'll sit on the owner's team for one project of national importance. You'll own real scopes of work early and work directly alongside the superintendents, engineers, and quality team delivering it. You'll see how a nuclear facility comes together from cleared ground to turnover, and you'll help build it.

If you seek high impact and are excited by fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects, we encourage you to apply to join our team.

Responsibilities

Field Engineering & Constructability

• Interpret drawings, specifications, and shop drawings for craft and subcontractor crews, and flag constructability issues to engineering before they reach the field
• Draft and track RFIs and submittals for assigned work packages from the first question through the engineering response and closure
• Perform quantity takeoffs, track installed quantities and percent complete, and report field progress to project controls and the master schedule
• Verify survey, layout, and as-built data for foundations, embeds, underground utilities, and structural steel
• Coordinate material deliveries, laydown, and equipment needs with superintendents and subcontractors to keep work fronts moving

Quality & Documentation

• Coordinate inspection and test plan hold points with Quality Control, and help verify that installed work meets drawings, specifications, and nuclear quality requirements
• Maintain daily reports, progress photos, and field records that become part of the facility's permanent quality and turnover record
• Support punch-list walks, as-built markups, and turnover package preparation for completed systems

Safety & Field Coordination

• Help prepare Job Hazard Analyses and take part in daily safety meetings, toolbox talks, and field safety walks
• Serve as the day-to-day field contact for subcontractor foremen on assigned scopes, raising issues early and closing them out quickly
• Grow into ownership of a defined scope of work, such as a site utility system or a building's foundations, from mobilization through turnover

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Construction, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, or Construction Management, completed by [Month 2027]
• Evidence of exceptional ability (construction internships or co-ops, engineering competition teams, hands-on projects, completed builds, etc.)
• Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications
• Ability to work outdoors on an active construction site in all weather conditions, including walking uneven terrain, climbing ladders and stairs, and wearing required PPE
• Valid driver's license
• Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance and access authorization

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Construction internship or co-op experience, especially on industrial, power generation, data center, semiconductor, or other mission-critical projects
• EIT certification or a passing score on the FE exam
• OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification
• Familiarity with Procore, Bluebeam, AutoCAD/Civil 3D, or Primavera P6
• Exposure to nuclear, DOE, or NQA-1 quality programs
• Leadership on an engineering competition team (ASCE Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge, Solar Decathlon, etc.) or in a student organization
• Military service, trades experience, or other hands-on leadership experience
• Bias toward action and comfort making decisions with incomplete information in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
• Interest in building a long-term career on a single flagship project rather than moving from job to job

Additional Requirements

Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Equal Opportunity Employer

General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $96,000-$107,000 annually.

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. Please note that the stated salary range is an estimate and may be adjusted based on market conditions, business needs, or other factors. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

This job requires a US Q security clearance - a minimum requirement of which is to be a US Citizen.

This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Q security clearance. This includes, but is not limited to, the following requirements:

• Successful completion of an extensive background investigation
• Drug testing
• Security interview
• Favorable adjudication of trustworthiness and reliability

This position requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

For more information about U.S. Security Clearances:

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in General Matter's Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.