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.
Job Summary
Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Supervisor, Welding Development to define and oversee welding development projects with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency of our production welding program. In this role you will collaborate with the engineering design team and fabrication teams to develop and demonstrate new weld processes and joint designs as well as activate new weld equipment. Once demonstrated, you will transfer the processes over to production and support training, maintenance and further refinements of these processes. Additional responsibilities will include managing weld development personnel, monitoring & driving fabrication progress, managing WPS and PQRs, evaluating engineering designs for weld optimization, and performing inspections of weldments to support manufacturing and assembly operations. You will lead your team in identifying, developing, and deploying methods to improve quality, reduce cost, and optimize build sequence and schedules.
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Responsibilities
- Hire, coach, manage career development, and assess the performance of team members
- Collaborate within manufacturing and engineering to develop and qualify welding specifications and procedures adhering to applicable codes and standards.
- Collaborate within manufacturing and engineering to develop new welding processes for vessels, tanks, reactor components and structural hardware.
- Apply robust, consistent, and reliable engineering fundamentals and processes to ensure the highest quality of manufacturing engineering
- Identify, develop, refine, and deploy new manufacturing methods to improve quality, reduce cost, and optimize build schedule
- Advise engineering teams, welding teams and vendors on welding methods and the interpretation of weld symbols.
- Perform Design for Manufacturing (DfM) and Design for Inspectability (DfI) reviews of proposed engineering designs of weldments. Provide feedback to design engineers to improve designs towards reduced fabrication cost and improved in-service inspectability where needed.
- Provide feedback from welding team to design engineers regarding recommendations for improved manufacturability. Review engineering drawings and documentation to ensure the correct materials are used and specifications met.
- Provide quality assurance supervision over welding and non-destructive testing (NDT) vendors.
- Identify and troubleshoot potential issues in our welding processes.
- Coordinate across the company and vendors to successfully deliver projects.
- Review, validate, and manage WPS & PQRs, as well as inspection outcomes and material test reports from vendors.
- Work with design engineers to define scope and intent of development projects to align with design teams’ expectations and protect feasibilities of fabrication team while managing to avoid scope creep and cost overruns
- Oversee training of technicians and welders in the use of welding equipment including mechanized and/or automated weld equipment.
- Identify, procure, and commission new weld equipment including mechanized and/or automated hardware.
- Partner with welding production supervisor to optimize use of weld processes and training on the floor.
- Duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years’ experience managing direct reports
- 5+ years’ experience in welding development, welding operations, weld inspection
- Welding experience of austenitic stainless steels and other high alloyed steels with emphasis on defining new weld processes and identification of weld method options
- Experience in petrochemical, nuclear, power generation, or aerospace manufacturing environment preferred
- NDT certifications preferred but not necessary.
- Dedication to safety to mitigate industrial hazards
- Experience working in a dynamic research and development (R&D) environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others
- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and foster a culture of inclusion
- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges, and issues
Physical Conditions
- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and the like
- Setting up and transferring temporary structures (e.g. scaffolding, ladders)
- Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
- Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 50 pounds in all directions
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Operating motor vehicles, heavy equipment or machinery
- Use hand tools
- Repetitive assembly operations of manufacturing test fixtures and test setups in collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams
Environmental Conditions
- Manufacturing environment
- General office environment
- Low temperatures
- High temperatures
- Outdoor environment or elements such as precipitation and wind
- Noisy environments
- Small and/or enclosed spaces
- Odors or fumes from chemicals or chemical reactions
- Evaluated heights
- Accessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
- High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced
Safety and PPE
- Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
- Manipulating, cleaning and disposal of hazardous materials
- Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
- Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes
Travel
- Some travel may be required 20%
Additional Requirements
- Occasionally requires overtime
- Occasionally requires working weekends
- Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
- Seldom requires non-standard work-week hours
- Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines
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About our Benefits
We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.
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Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810