SVP of Nuclear Engineering
industrial_energy_operations › Nuclear Power Plant · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive who leads the nuclear engineering organization responsible for reactor physics and thermal-power systems across the fleet.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Executive who leads the nuclear engineering organization responsible for reactor physics and thermal-power systems across the fleet. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Leads operations across multiple units or a small fleet of stations through station-level operations directors (E1s), setting common operating standards where reactivity, coolant, and radiological safety decisions carry consequence to overall company viability.
- Owns the integrated operating and generation plan across the fleet — balancing dispatch commitments, outage sequencing, and fuel cycles so units are available while never subordinating nuclear safety to output.
- Standardizes control-room human-performance, procedure-adherence, and operator-licensing practices across sites, resolving cross-site abstract issues (e.g., common-cause operational vulnerabilities) with high consequence.
- Negotiates critical operating matters with grid operators, the NRC resident inspection team, and senior company leaders, representing operations in fleet-level safety and reliability decisions.
- Accountable for the operator advancement ladder across the fleet, ensuring senior-reactor-operator and plant-manager succession keeps every unit under qualified command.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-station operating knowledge to standardize control-room, reactivity, and radiological practices and integrate operating and generation plans across multiple units or a small fleet.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Solves cross-functional, abstract operating issues (common-cause vulnerabilities, fleet dispatch vs. safety trade-offs) whose consequences can reach company viability.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical operating matters with grid operators, NRC inspection leadership, and top company leaders; leads station operations directors (E1s).
- Typical experience
- 15+ years with strategic leadership of nuclear operating units or divisions and demonstrated fleet-level operating command.
Skills at this level
- Reactivity and Reactor Power Management
- — Governs the safe adjustment of reactor power and coolant temperature to meet changing load demands through the day, ensuring control-rod and reactivity manipulations across the operation are performed to procedure by licensed operators.
- Control-Room Operating Command
- — Directs the overall operation of reactor units from the control room — startup, power operation, and shutdown — setting the operating discipline under which senior reactor operators oversee all controls.
- NRC Licensed-Operator Program Leadership
- — Owns the pipeline that prepares operators for the NRC license exam, sustains re-qualification and recurring training, and ensures the organization retains a qualified licensed and senior-licensed operator bench.
- Radiological Safety Oversight
- — Governs radiation-monitoring systems and radiological procedures so that leaks are detected and addressed quickly and containment and worker-protection standards hold across all operating units.
- Emergency and Abnormal Condition Response
- — Directs the operating organization's execution of emergency procedures and response to abnormal plant conditions, restoring units to safe normal operation as quickly as the situation allows.
- Nuclear Fuel Handling Operations
- — Manages fuel-element handling activities — preparation, transfer, loading, and unloading — and their integration with reactor startup/shutdown and refueling outage sequencing.
- Fleet Operating and Generation Planning
- — Balances grid dispatch commitments, outage and fuel-cycle sequencing, and unit availability across multiple stations without subordinating nuclear safety to generation output.
- Nuclear Safety Culture Leadership
- — Sets and sustains the operating-performance and human-performance standards (procedure adherence, questioning attitude) that prevent common-cause operational vulnerabilities across the fleet.
- NRC Operating-License Basis Stewardship
- — Protects the integrity of the NRC operating-license basis for every station, ensuring operating decisions and events never compromise the company's authorization to operate its reactors.
- Regulatory and Grid External Representation
- — Represents nuclear operations with the NRC, industry bodies, and regional grid authorities, negotiating critical operating and regulatory matters on the company's behalf.
- Operator Succession and Command Continuity
- — Manages advancement from licensed reactor operator to senior reactor operator to plant manager and instructor, ensuring every unit remains under qualified licensed command.
- Enterprise Nuclear Portfolio Strategy
- — Shapes corporate decisions on the nuclear generation portfolio — reliability targets, uprates, life extension, and retirement — integrating operations with the corporation's broader generation and capital strategy.
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