Nuclear Product Lead - Design & Engineering

Crane Company; Kentucky; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Company is seeking a Nuclear Technical Manager to lead a team of engineers and scientists supporting the Nuclear Product Line. You will drive design processes, coordinate with manufacturing, and ensure high performance through metrics and mentoring.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, collaboration with sourcing for supplier qualification, and advancing new nuclear instrumentation specifications across diverse product lines. Domestic and international travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading engineering teams.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience performing complex product design and analysis.
• Ability and willingness to travel both domestically and internationally 10% of the time
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Crane will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and retain talent, and drive a culture of high performance by implementing relevant output metrics, focusing on accountability, coaching, and mentoring
• Develop the team’s technical product depth, and apply it to a variety of design challenges.
• Drive overall team performance and ownership of technical scope of new product development, continuous improvement, and sustaining activity
• Foster a collaborative relationship with the manufacturing engineering team to insure design for manufacturability and drive a problem-solving culture
• Drive collaboration with Sourcing team to identify and qualify new suppliers, and mitigate risks around long-lead components
• Help the business meet quality and on-time delivery commitments to customers and internal stakeholders
• Support our customers and commercial team as we develop specifications for new nuclear instrumentation applications, ensuring specifications are complete and achievable
• Prioritize the team’s tasks, monitor and update utilization
• Optimize execution by applying various models, including resources from other product lines or businesses, on-site contractors, and engineering service providers
• Develop and maintain design processes that drive consistency and help insure good first pass yield of engineering designs
• Lead collaboration efforts with other divisions of Crane Nuclear and Process & Flow Technologies, technical title holders, and other technical managers with the goal of establishing best-in-class design processes
• Lead the development of new design practices and maintain existing design practices to ensure they reflect lessons learnt and any changes to design envelope with associated impact
• Own and drive some elements of the infrastructure of the broader Reuter-Stokes Technology team. Examples could be intellectual property, operational metrics, knowledge management, or similar topics that cut across all product lines.

Skills

Team leadership

Engineering management

Nuclear instrumentation

Technical mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Project planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Master’s degree in engineering

Professional Engineering license (Mechanical)

Tools

ANSYS

MCNP

GEANT

Garfield++

Zmax

SAP ERP

Job description

Crane Company is seeking a Nuclear Technical Manager to lead a team of engineers and scientists supporting the Nuclear Product Line. You will drive design processes, coordinate with manufacturing, and ensure high performance through metrics and mentoring.

The role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, collaboration with sourcing for supplier qualification, and advancing new nuclear instrumentation specifications across diverse product lines. Domestic and international travel is expected.