Senior Uranium Process Engineer — Hybrid + Relocation

Nano Nuclear Energy, Inc.; Oak Ridge (TN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Hybrid work arrangement

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401(k) with up to 5% company match

Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave

Mentorship and professionaldevelopment

Job summary

Nano Nuclear Energy in Oak Ridge, TN is seeking a Senior Uranium Chemical Process Engineer to develop and scale uranium conversion and deconversion processes from laboratory development to demonstration-facility operations.

This hands-on engineering role translates process chemistry into practical, scalable systems and involves direct collaboration with scientists, operators, and equipment to solve complex challenges.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Process engineering experience in chemical, nuclear, materials, mining/mineral, fluorochemical, or other high-hazard processing environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting laboratory, bench-scale, pilot-scale, or demonstration-facility campaigns, including startup, sampling, troubleshooting, and process adjustments.
• Strong knowledge of material and energy balances, reaction engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, solids handling, and process equipment sizing.
• Ability to identify scale-up risks and determine the experiments or analyses needed to support sound engineering decisions.
• Experience preparing engineering calculations, design-basis documents, process descriptions, equipment requirements, and technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Develop process flowsheets, material and energy balances, stream tables, and engineering design bases for conversion and deconversion systems.
• Engineer and evaluate unit operations, including reaction, filtration, drying, calcination, gas handling, solids handling, and recycle systems.
• Assess scale-up challenges involving heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, mixing, residence time, and solids transport.
• Support equipment checkout, commissioning, experimental setup, process campaigns, sampling, troubleshooting, and data reconciliation.
• Translate process requirements into equipment sizing, operating conditions, materials-of-construction, and instrumentation specifications.
• Analyze process data to improve yield, efficiency, operating stability, and waste reduction.
• Support process hazard reviews and engineering safeguards in coordination with safety specialists.
• Maintain controlled engineering calculations and evaluate process changes for impacts on equipment, product quality, and demonstration objectives.

Skills

Process engineering

Heat and mass transfer

Equipment sizing

Troubleshooting

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Chemical Engineering

Tools

Process simulation software

Pilot-plant experience

Laboratory equipment

Job description

Nano Nuclear Energy in Oak Ridge, TN is seeking a Senior Uranium Chemical Process Engineer to develop and scale uranium conversion and deconversion processes from laboratory development to demonstration-facility operations.

This hands-on engineering role translates process chemistry into practical, scalable systems and involves direct collaboration with scientists, operators, and equipment to solve complex challenges.