Senior Nuclear Shift Manager — Reactor Operations Lead

Aalo Atomic; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, TX, seeks an experienced Aalo-X Shift Manager to lead on-shift operations, safety culture, and outage responses at the Idaho Falls facility. You will oversee startups, testing, and shutdowns while ensuring compliance with operating limits.

Qualified candidates have 10+ years in nuclear power operations, an NRC SRO or DOE SRO certification, and supervisory experience. On-site work, rotating shifts, and fitness-for-duty required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible nuclear power operations experience.
• Current or previously held NRC Senior Reactor Operator license or DOE SRO certification.
• At least three years of supervisory or command experience directing licensed operators.
• Ability to complete Aalo-X facility-specific Shift Manager qualification, including evaluations.
• Based in the United States; willing to work on-site in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
• Willing to work rotating shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, outages, and emergent call-ins.
• Able to obtain and maintain required access authorization and fitness-for-duty status.

Responsibilities

• Exercise command and control of all on-shift Aalo-X operations and coordinate work affecting plant status, reactivity, equipment availability, or nuclear safety.
• Set and maintain a clear understanding and performance of a professional Nuclear Safety Culture on your shift.
• Coordinate and release maintenance work packages, authorize LOTO’s, direct RO/SRO’s in oversight and support of maintenance, calibration, and testing of systems during commissioning.
• Direct startups, criticality approach, heatup, power ascension, testing, steady-state operation, shutdown, cooldown, and response to abnormal or emergency conditions.
• Conduct shift turnover, status briefings, crew assignments, pre-job briefs, reactivity-management briefs, and operating-risk reviews.
• Participate in design reviews and provide input to inform design as the end user.
• Maintain accurate knowledge of plant status, operating limits, out-of-service equipment, work in progress, temporary configurations, impairments, and compensatory measures.
• Enforce procedure use and adherence, three-way communication, place-keeping, peer checks, independent verification, component identification, and formal turnover practices.
• Verify assigned personnel are trained, qualified, fit for duty, and authorized for the work performed.
• Stop work, delay startup, reject an evolution, reduce power, or direct shutdown when prerequisites, staffing, configuration, procedures, or risk controls are inadequate.
• Ensure deficiencies, unexpected results, procedure problems, and human-performance events are entered into the corrective action program and receive appropriate immediate action.
• Lead initial facility response during abnormal and emergency conditions and fulfill assigned emergency-response duties.
• Coach and evaluate crew members and develop future Shift Managers and Senior Reactor Operators.

Skills

Nuclear power operations

Control room supervision

Shift management

SRO license/DOE certification

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, TX, seeks an experienced Aalo-X Shift Manager to lead on-shift operations, safety culture, and outage responses at the Idaho Falls facility. You will oversee startups, testing, and shutdowns while ensuring compliance with operating limits.

Qualified candidates have 10+ years in nuclear power operations, an NRC SRO or DOE SRO certification, and supervisory experience. On-site work, rotating shifts, and fitness-for-duty required.