Operations Engineer, Salt Production Facility

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Operations Engineer to support plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and routine operation. The Operations Engineer will own the technical basis and performance of assigned process systems as they move from design into operation. This includes understanding system design, equipment, chemistry, controls, safeguards, operating limits, and failure modes. Working with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Commissioning, and Process Safety, the engineer will solve technical problems, improve system performance, and translate engineering requirements into practical operating limits, procedures, training, and field practices.

• 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.

• B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience in a chemical processing, power generation, manufacturing, nuclear, or similar industrial environment.

• Experience applying engineering fundamentals to process systems, equipment performance, troubleshooting, or plant improvements.

• 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