Vice President, Engineering
The Nuclear CompanyColumbia, South Carolina, United States · Posted TodayDescription
The Nuclear Company is the fastest growing AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space, pioneering a fleet-scale approach to building the next generation of nuclear reactors. Through our design-once, build-many model, we're accelerating the deployment of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy.
We operate with an AI-first mindset. Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work. We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence.
We hire people who are driven by purpose, thrive in ambiguity, and are energized by building what has never been built before. Our team combines intellectual curiosity with high agency, embraces candid feedback and continuous learning, and holds themselves and others to exceptional standards. Our values—Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappy, and Tenacity—guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions every day. They are not words on a wall; they are the standard by which we operate. TRUST is the foundation of our safety culture, fostering intellectual honesty, accountability, and open communication, while our values challenge every team member to execute with urgency, humility, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to our mission.
About the role
The Nuclear Company is seeking a Vice President, Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for the successful development and execution of a fleet of nuclear power plants.
This is a senior leadership role for an experienced nuclear professional who has spent significant time in the realities of the industry—design, construction, commissioning, operations, major projects, and/or asset management—and understands what it takes to move a nuclear project from engineering definition into construction and ultimately safe, reliable operation.
The VP, Engineering will build and lead an owner's engineering organization capable of integrating reactor technology, architect-engineer partners, EPC organizations, suppliers, utilities, regulators, and construction teams into a disciplined and repeatable delivery model, providing full lifecycle project support from early design through construction, commissioning, and operations.
We are looking for a builder, operator, and engineering leader—someone who combines deep nuclear judgment with the urgency and pragmatism required to build the next generation of American nuclear infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Lead the Engineering Organization
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary nuclear engineering organization.
- Establish the engineering management system, organizational structure, technical authorities, design responsibilities, and decision rights required to execute multiple nuclear projects.
- Recruit and develop leaders across key disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, I&C, systems, configuration management, design engineering, and engineering programs.
- Create a culture of technical rigor, accountability, speed, and continuous improvement.
Own Engineering Execution
- Provide executive leadership for engineering across the full project lifecycle—from site development and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations.
- Establish engineering plans, priorities, schedules, deliverables, and performance metrics aligned with overall project execution.
- Ensure engineering is sufficiently mature to support procurement and construction when required, minimizing field changes, rework, and schedule disruption.
- Drive resolution of complex technical issues and ensure engineering decisions balance nuclear safety, constructability, operability, cost, schedule, and lifecycle performance.
- Establish disciplined design-change, configuration-management, technical-document, and engineering-change-control processes.
Build for Constructability and Operability
- Bring an operator’s and constructor’s mindset to engineering decisions.
- Ensure designs incorporate lessons learned from operating nuclear plants and recent new-build programs.
- Integrate construction sequencing, modularization, supply-chain realities, commissioning requirements, maintenance, reliability, and long-term plant operations into design decisions.
- Partner closely with Construction, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, Licensing, Operations, and Commissioning to eliminate organizational handoffs and solve problems as one integrated project team.
- Champion standardization and resist unnecessary project-specific customization.
Manage Engineering Partners and Suppliers
- Serve as the senior technical interface with reactor technology providers, architect-engineers, EPC partners, utilities, major equipment suppliers, and other engineering organizations.
- Establish clear scopes, interfaces, deliverables, technical requirements, and accountability across engineering partners.
- Evaluate engineering performance and intervene quickly when technical, organizational, or execution issues threaten project outcomes.
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