Chief Engineer

Role Description
We are looking for a Chief Engineer who will support the Engineering Director (ED) for the developing, managing, and maintaining a full complement of R&D, engineering, and design capabilities in the newcleo’s Global LFR Engineering department (ENG) team progressing our exciting lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) projects.

Main Activities

• Support the ED with the delivery of Functional, Safety, Legislative, Technical, Capability, Business and Commercial responsibility in terms of technical and quality content and efficiency.
• Support the ED for the integration of all the engineering Areas/Units across the different design phases, in order to achieve the technical project objectives, statutory requirements, and regulatory expectations in the most efficient and effective manner.
• Supports ED in approval of the Design Plan proposed by Lead Project Engineer.
• Support the ED for the operational direction of the Engineering Department: resources management, development and training.
• Responsible for reporting on budgetary, schedule, Key-Performance Indicator’s aspects of Programme across ENG.
• Support ED for the development and maintenance of the Engineering functional procedures and legislative requirements compliance.
• Management of the function SQEP process within ENG.
• Accountable to establish the training budget and development programs orientation of the ENG personnel.
• Supervise and support the Area Managers to ensure the final quality of the set of deliverables in accordance with the efficiency objectives established for each task.
• Support ED in getting the necessary background to formulate choice about design in-house or buy outsourced design packages.
• Supporting the supervision of quality for engineering outputs to the adherence to standards, legislation and contractual requirements, with a focus on feedbacks across all involved Units (cross cutting disciplinary Areas or Interfaces checks).
• Accountable to ED for the checking and approval of the scope readiness for design process stages.
• Assess and approve the technical specifications for plant modifications, designed to the improvement of nuclear safety and optimization of technological process.
• Monitoand control the implementation of plant modifications with compliance to approved specifications.
• Monitor and control the activities of plant designer and contractors, related to engineering, modification implementation and R&D activities related to optimization of plant operation.
• To support Project Engineers for the identification of the logic and priority for the delivery of the technical documents across within ENG and other departments for a specific Project.
• Promoting the technical task forces supporting and advising towards resolution of engineering issues and complex/multidiscipline problem solving across within ENG.
• Proactively initiates and promotes continuous improvement into policies and procedures.
• LFE/REX (lesson learned) from project delivery evaluation and implementation into policies and procedures.
• Responsible for CAPEX - OPEX forecast with Engineering Department.
• To apply the company procedures for Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Systems and Organizational Models.
• Maintaining safety, discipline and control of allocated staff and contractors in accordance with HR Guidelines.

Desired Qualifications    

• M.Sc. in Industrial, Mechanical or Nuclear Engineering or equivalent.    
• For all locations: Working knowledge of English is a must
• For location in Italy: Fluent Italian, French is a plus
• For location in France: Fluent French, Italian is a plus
• For location in UK: Italian or French is a plus
• Extensive Engineering Management and Workplace Experience (minimum 15 years continuous and technical relevant experience of which at least 10 technical authority/signatory) , ideally in the field of generation IV nuclear systems, or SMRs.
• Meaningful and rich experience in a managerial role within the industry (Nuclear Industry Experience is a plus), including experience with project management.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, with demonstrated experience managing complex projects and R&D programs.
• Proven track record in people management, development and leadership of performance improvement and culture change.
• Specialism in one or more of the areas typical of a Tier 2 Nuclear design.
• Comprehensive nuclear engineering technical knowledge.
• Extensive knowledge of QA systems and their practical application.
• Extensive knowledge of the provisions related to the Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Management System.