Manager, Inspection & Monitoring

Structural Integrity Associates; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k retirement plan

Health, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Job summary

Structural Integrity Associates (SIA) is seeking a senior leader to head the Inspection & Monitoring organization in the U.S. You will guide growth, project execution, and capability development for the domestic fleet, license renewal, uprates, and advanced reactors.

You will connect field inspection with engineering disciplines and oversee multidisciplinary teams, ensuring quality, safety, and schedule adherence while advancing technical credibility across programs.

Qualifications

• BS in engineering, materials science, or related discipline; advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of nuclear experience including leadership and delivery of inspection/structural-integrity work
• Working knowledge of ASME Section XI and Section V; QA and records-control requirements
• Able to lead multidisciplinary teams and integrate inspection findings with Materials, Analytical, ASME Code, and repair/replacement activities
• Strong client-facing, proposal, negotiation, presentation, and written communication skills
• Ability to travel approximately 20% to client and field locations

Responsibilities

• Lead the Inspection & Monitoring organization across growth, project execution, and technical capability development
• Manage, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team with staffing and workload planning
• Collaborate with Analytical Services, ASME Code & Compliance, Materials, and repair/replacement teams
• Develop market strategy, maintain client relationships, identify opportunities, and lead scope/proposal development
• Oversee RI-ISI, inspection optimization, aging-management, and lifecycle integrity strategies
• Ensure safety, quality, knowledge sharing, and development of future leaders

Skills

Leadership

Nuclear experience

ASME knowledge

Client communication

Travel readiness

Education

BS in engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Finite Element Analysis

NDE techniques

Job description

Role Purpose

The Manager will lead the Inspection & Monitoring organization in growth, project execution, and technical capability development across the domestic operating fleet, license renewal programs, extended power uprates, and advanced reactor market. The group provides the condition data needed to demonstrate structural integrity through inspection planning and execution, nondestructive examination (NDE), structures and condition monitoring, in-situ monitoring, and assessment and trending of as-found conditions.

Role Purpose

The Manager will lead the Inspection & Monitoring organization in growth, project execution, and technical capability development across the domestic operating fleet, license renewal programs, extended power uprates, and advanced reactor market. The group provides the condition data needed to demonstrate structural integrity through inspection planning and execution, nondestructive examination (NDE), structures and condition monitoring, in-situ monitoring, and assessment and trending of as-found conditions.

The Manager serves as the connecting leader between field inspection and monitoring activities and the engineering disciplines that establish acceptance criteria and disposition results, including materials and degradation, fracture mechanics, stress and finite element analysis, ASME Section XI programs and Construction Code implementation.

Core Responsibilities

Industry Engagement & Technical Leadership

• Represent SI with utilities, reactor developers, stakeholders, strategic partners, and industry organizations including BWRVIP, MRP, WRTC, ASME committees, and relevant owners groups
• Track changes in codes, regulation, operating experience, degradation knowledge, and inspection technology, and translate them into client solutions and internal capability plans.
• Position SI for current-fleet and advanced-reactor work, including risk-informed inservice inspection (RI-ISI), inspection optimization, and Reliability and Integrity Management (RIM) approaches.
• Develop the group’s market strategy, maintain client relationships, identify opportunities, and lead scope and proposal development

People Leadership & Organization Development

• Manage, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team, including recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, succession planning, and knowledge transfer.
• Plan staffing, assignments, workload, utilization, and capacity across projects, outages, emergent work, and business-development commitments.
• Establish training and qualification plans and ensure work is performed by appropriately experienced, qualified, and, where required, certified personnel.
• Lead with technical credibility, sound judgment, accountability, and commercial awareness; foster collaboration across disciplines and organizational boundaries; and build a culture focused on safety, quality, knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and development of future leaders

Interface Across Other Engineering Disciplines

• Work closely with Analytical Services, ASME Code & Compliance, Materials, and repair/replacement teams to integrate inspection findings with engineering evaluation and disposition
• Lead multidisciplinary teams on complex and emergent issues, including rapid assessment, client interface, scope and proposal development, resource coordination, field execution, and engineering resolution while maintaining technical rigor, quality, schedule, and budget
• Support advanced reactor developers in developing inspection, monitoring, inspectability, and lifecycle integrity strategies

Technical Focus Areas

• PWR & BWR Reactor Vessel and Internals Inspection & Monitoring
• ASME Section XI, Divisions 1 and 2; ASME Section V NDE methods and qualification; and working interface with ASME Section II materials and III design-basis requirements.
• ISI and RI-ISI program development, inspection optimization, inspection and monitoring support for aging-management and license-renewal programs, and advanced-reactor RIM strategies
• Surface and volumetric NDE, including advanced ultrasonic techniques, UT in lieu of radiography basis evaluations, and other alternative or enhanced examination methods.
• NDE supporting repairs, replacements, weld overlays, and post-repair acceptance.
• Flaw sizing, surface-profile characterization, geometry mapping, wall-thickness mapping, and other inspection techniques used to provide quantitative inputs to engineering evaluations
• Inspection and monitoring strategies addressing applicable degradation and failure modes, including corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, fatigue, embrittlement, thermal aging, wear, vibration, wall thinning, and other aging mechanisms

Strategic Impact

Success in this role will be reflected by:

• Growth of Inspection & Monitoring portfolio through client relationships, opportunity pipeline development, and sustainable growth
• Development of differentiated technical offerings that address emerging market needs
• Development and retention of a strong team and robust client relationships.
• Strong project execution, utilization, and profitability across the Inspection & Monitoring group

Required Skills/Qualifications

• B.S. in engineering, materials science, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred
• 10 or more years of relevant nuclear experience, including progressive leadership responsibility and delivery of inspection or structural-integrity work in regulated environments
• Working knowledge of ASME Section XI and Section V and the ability to operate effectively within nuclear quality assurance and records-control requirements.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and integrate inspection findings with Materials, Analytical, ASME Code, and repair/replacement activities while managing the project and subcontractors
• Strong client-facing, proposal, negotiation, presentation, and written communication skills, with the judgment to communicate technical risk clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to travel approximately 20% to client and field locations and support time-sensitive or outage work as business needs require.

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• Professional Engineer licensure, relevant NDE certification, advanced technical degree, or other recognized technical credentials relevant to inspection, monitoring, NDE, or structural integrity
• Participation in EPRI programs, owners groups, ASME committees, industry working groups, or regulatory interactions.
• Field experience involving reactor vessels and internals, piping, containment or civil structures, repair/replacement, or component inspection programs.

Export Control Notice

Certain positions at SI may require access to information and technology which is subject to Export Administration Regulations 15 CFR 730-774, including those of the US Department of Energy (DOE) in 10 CFR 810 and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 10 CFR Part 110. Hiring decisions for such positions must comply with these regulations and may result in SI limiting its consideration of foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the DOE’s Generally Authorized Destinations List: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/chapter-III/part-810/appendix-Appendix%20A%20to%20Part%20810.

About Us

SIA is an engineering consulting firm serving various industries including Nuclear Power, Energy Services, Pipeline Integrity, and Critical Infrastructure. Join a team of internationally recognized experts in a culture based on knowledge, excellence, and respect for one another. Our employees are members of a distinct community of internationally respected professionals committed to quality, engineering innovation and a shared goal of building a safer world.

Why Work at SIA

SIA offers a competitive salary and performance-based bonus program. Our retirement benefits include a Traditional 401k, Roth 401k, and an employer match. To help employees maintain a work-life balance, SIA also offers various paid time off including vacation, floating holidays, sick time, and parental leave.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life Insurance and AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution
• Flexible Spending Account for health care and dependent care
• ID theft protection and credit monitoring

Structural Integrity Associates, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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