Salt Plant Ops Engineer – Nuclear

Kairos-Power; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) and other benefits

Job summary

Kairos Power is seeking an Operations Engineer to support plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and routine operation at a Salt Production Facility. The role focuses on owning the technical basis and performance of assigned process systems as they move from design into operation.

The engineer will analyze system performance, develop operating limits, procedures, and training, and collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Process Safety to ensure safe, reliable

Qualifications

• BS degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience in chemical processing, power generation, manufacturing, nuclear, or similar industrial environment.
• Experience reading and working from P&IDs, equipment data sheets, engineering calculations, control narratives, and vendor technical information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical information to both engineering and operations personnel.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner for assigned process systems from design completion through commissioning, startup, and routine operation.
• Maintain the engineering basis for system design, operating limits, equipment performance, chemistry, controls, safeguards, and response to failures.
• Review designs and field changes for safety, performance, operability, maintainability, human factors, and alignment with design intent.
• Perform process, hydraulic, and pneumatic calculations to predict system performance and define equipment limits using tools such as AFT Fathom and AFT Arrow.
• Analyze plant data, monitor system performance and reliability, and troubleshoot process, equipment, instrumentation, and control issues.
• Develop and implement engineered improvements to safety, reliability, throughput, quality, operability, and cost.
• Support chemical and raw-material specifications, vendor selection, first-fill planning, and material acceptance requirements.
• Develop or review commissioning, startup, performance testing, and equipment acceptance plans, including factory and site acceptance testing.
• Support field walk-downs, equipment acceptance, punch-list resolution, system turnover, pre-startup safety reviews, and startup issue resolution.
• Support process safety activities, including hazard analyses, Management of Change, incident investigations, root-cause analyses, and corrective actions.
• Develop or review alarm rationalization, control narratives, interlock requirements, operating limits, monitoring requirements, and operator responses.
• Translate engineering requirements into procedures, training, logs, rounds, checklists, and other tools needed for safe and reliable operation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job description

Kairos Power is seeking an Operations Engineer to support plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and routine operation at a Salt Production Facility. The role focuses on owning the technical basis and performance of assigned process systems as they move from design into operation.

The engineer will analyze system performance, develop operating limits, procedures, and training, and collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Process Safety to ensure safe, reliable