Manager, Integration & Facility Engineering

The TerraPower Isotopes® (TPI™) business has been established to pursue medical isotopes development and commercialization - advancing nuclear science for significant human health benefits. We seek to support revolutionary radiotherapies for treatments of various cancers through the supply of radioisotopes. TerraPower currently has unique access to a supply of thorium for the long-term production of actinium-225 in the growing alpha therapy market and intends to expand into other nuclear related medical treatments.

The TerraPower Isotopes (TPI) program is an integral part of the Washington State based TerraPower team, a company working to raise living standards globally. In 2006, the company originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced radiopharmaceutical applications and influencing change within nuclear medicine. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

Manager, Integration & Facility Engineering – TPI

TerraPower Isotopes (TPI) is seeking a Manager, Integration & Facility Engineering to lead the engineering team responsible for integrating production processes, equipment, and facility infrastructure across the Alpha2, Alpha5, and Alpha30 projects. The team includes Process Integration Engineers and HVAC Engineers and may expand to include structural engineering and other facility engineering capabilities as project needs evolve.

This position will ensure facility designs support process requirements, safe operations, environmental conditions, equipment installation, maintenance, and future expansion. The manager will coordinate technical interfaces among process equipment, nuclear containment, cleanrooms, building systems, and supporting infrastructure, working closely with engineering discipline managers, Systems Engineering, project management, Quality, Operations, and external design and construction partners.

The role combines people leadership with technical oversight, ensuring integrated facility solutions are practical, coordinated, and delivered in alignment with project scope, schedule, and budget.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Cross-Project Coordination

• Lead, manage, and develop the Process Integration and HVAC engineers, as well as structural engineers or other facility engineering personnel assigned to the team.
• Establish clear responsibilities, technical expectations, performance objectives, and development plans.
• Support the Project Management Office in coordinating staffing, priorities, and assignments with project and engineering leadership to meet project commitments and resolve competing resource needs.
• Identify capability gaps and support hiring, staff augmentation, and use of external engineering expertise.
• Establish consistent engineering practices across projects while tailoring solutions to each facility’s process needs, constraints, and design maturity.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, and timely resolution of issues across disciplines and organizational boundaries.

Process and Facility Integration

• Lead the integration of production processes and equipment with facility layouts, utilities, environmental controls, and building infrastructure.
• Ensure process needs are translated into coordinated facility design inputs, including equipment footprints, utility demands, heat loads, access requirements, and installation constraints.
• Oversee development and coordination of layouts addressing personnel, material, product, and waste flows in collaboration with Operations, Quality, radiation protection, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate interfaces among process equipment, hot cells, cleanrooms, HVAC systems, utility distribution, and building structures.
• Ensure facility designs accommodate equipment delivery, installation, replacement, maintenance, and operational access.
• Identify integration gaps and spatial conflicts early, coordinating resolution with responsible engineering disciplines and external partners.
• Evaluate provisions for future capacity, flexibility, and expansion without unnecessarily increasing near-term scope.

HVAC and Facility Engineering

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for HVAC engineering, including design criteria, system concepts, specifications, calculations, and design reviews.
• Ensure HVAC designs address temperature, humidity, cleanliness, pressure relationships, ventilation, filtration, and process heat loads, as applicable.
• Coordinate airflow and pressure strategies with nuclear containment, radiation protection, Quality, and process engineering to address product protection and containment needs.
• Coordinate HVAC monitoring, alarms, controls, and operating sequences with instrumentation and controls engineers and building management system stakeholders.
• Ensure facility utility capacities and distribution arrangements align with equipment requirements, operating scenarios, and appropriate design margins.
• Where structural engineering falls within the team, oversee coordination of equipment loads, support structures, anchorage, seismic requirements, and building modifications.
• Ensure discipline-specific designs and calculations receive review and approval by appropriately qualified engineers.

External Partner and Design Coordination

• Serve as a key engineering interface with architecture and engineering firms, cleanroom suppliers, facility equipment vendors, and construction partners.
• Coordinate development of scopes of work, design criteria, technical specifications, and engineering inputs for external partners.
• Establish clear scope boundaries and interface responsibilities between TPI, equipment suppliers, and facility designers.
• Review partner deliverables for consistency with process needs, facility requirements, and coordinated engineering inputs.
• Lead multidisciplinary facility design reviews and track comments, decisions, and actions to closure.
• Coordinate resolution of technical questions, design discrepancies, and field issues with the responsible engineers and project teams.
• Support constructability and installation planning by providing timely engineering decisions and coordinated design information.

Requirements, Configuration, and Change Control

• Work with the Engineering Governance & Configuration team to establish and maintain facility requirements, interface definitions, design bases, and verification expectations.
• Ensure team deliverables follow TPI’s engineering procedures and configuration management practices.
• Assess proposed process and equipment changes for impacts on facility layouts, HVAC, utilities, structures, and construction scope.
• Coordinate technical input to change evaluations, including impacts on safety, quality, operations, cost, and schedule.
• Ensure approved changes are incorporated into affected facility documents, models, specifications, and external partner deliverables.
• Maintain visibility of open assumptions, unresolved interfaces, and technical decisions that could affect design progression or project delivery.

Project Delivery and Operational Readiness

• Support development of engineering scope, estimates, schedules, and resource plans for integration and facility engineering work.
• Monitor deliverable progress, identify emerging risks, and coordinate recovery actions with project management and engineering leadership.
• Support procurement, fabrication, construction, installation, and commissioning through technical reviews and issue resolution.
• Coordinate with commissioning, qualification, and validation teams to ensure facility acceptance criteria and testing needs are incorporated into designs.
• Ensure Operations and maintenance stakeholders participate in relevant design reviews and readiness activities.
• Support turnover of accurate facility documentation, operating information, and configuration records.
• Capture lessons learned and apply improvements across TPI projects.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, chemical, civil, structural, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• At least 10 years of relevant engineering experience involving complex process facilities, building systems, or multidisciplinary engineering integration.
• Experience leading engineering teams, including responsibility for technical quality, priorities, and personnel development.
• Demonstrated experience integrating process equipment with facility layouts, utilities, HVAC, and supporting infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of HVAC and facility engineering principles, including environmental control, utility capacity, equipment access, and maintainability.
• Experience coordinating external engineering firms, equipment suppliers, and construction partners.
• Experience developing or reviewing engineering scopes of work, design criteria, specifications, and multidisciplinary design deliverables.
• Ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs, resolve interface issues, and communicate decisions clearly.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to coordinate work across multiple projects and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in radiopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, nuclear, biotechnology, chemical processing, or other highly regulated facilities.
• Experience with cleanrooms, controlled environments, radiological facilities, or hot cell installations.
• Familiarity with cGMP requirements and their application to facility layouts, environmental controls, and operational flows.
• Experience with pressure zoning, containment ventilation, filtration, and building automation systems.
• Familiarity with structural and seismic considerations for equipment installation and facility design.
• Experience supporting projects from concept development through construction, commissioning, qualification, and operational turnover.
• Experience with modular facility or cleanroom delivery approaches.
• Familiarity with building information modeling and multidisciplinary model coordination.
• Professional Engineer license or other relevant professional credentials.

Job Functions

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.

• Motor Abilities: Sitting and standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands).
• Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 50 pounds.
• Repetitive work: Prolonged.
• Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work and ability to perform role in personal protective equipment.
• Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day.

TerraPower Isotope’s technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower Isotopes must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower Isotope’s export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on business needs for a particular position, TerraPower Isotopes may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.

Job details

Salary Range Level: $151,994 - $197,395

* Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.  This range is specific to Washington State.

Benefits: 

• Competitive Compensation
• Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments
• Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits for family or individual
• Vision
• Dental
• Life
• Life and Disability
• Gender Affirmation Benefits
• Parental Leave
• 401k Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 21 days of annually accrued PTO
• Generous Holiday Schedule
• 10 paid holidays
• Relocation Assistance
• Professional and Educational Support Opportunities
• Flexible Work Schedule

 TerraPower Career and Benefits information:  https://www.terrapower.com/careers/