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TerraPower Digital Systems V&V Manager in Bellevue, Washington
TITLE: Digital Systems V&V Manager LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits. TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Digital Systems V&V Manager TerraPower, LLC. Is seeking a highly motivated Digital Systems Verification and Validation (V&V) Manager. This position reports directly to the I&C and Electrical (ICE) Sr. Manager. In this role, you will act as a Verification and Validation (V&V) Manager for Sodium Fast Reactor technologies, with interfaces and support to other associated nuclear technologies such as fast-spectrum, and Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) technologies. As a font line manager, you will lead and be responsible for the technical performance and personnel management of a team of V&V Engineers that will interface with scientists and engineers internal and external to TerraPower to review, audit, test, verify and validate, digital instrumentation and control (I&C) systems, Hardware, Software, and Firmware used in Generation IV advanced nuclear reactor technologies. Responsibilities Defining, coordinating, and executing a specific portion of the interdisciplinary technical scope within the Natrium Project through project completion. Focus on project personnel and technical performance management. Building a team through hiring/staffing the correct mix of skillset, experience, and knowledge. Growing the personnel within their team through annual goal setting and monitoring, career growth opportunities, and encouraging professional development. Ensuring staff members are trained to appropriate standards. Leverage both internal and external means to provide support as needed to achieve project goals. Drive work performance and technical quality across their team through schedule planning and monitoring, cost planning and management, staffing planning and management, and risk management. Develop Digital I&C V&V Plans, Procedures and Policies in accordance with applicable NRC Reg Guides and Standards and aligned to TerraPower corporate and project level Procedures and polices. Provide technically independent review and verification of systems, software, hardware requirements, design documents, and specifications, participate in Configuration Management (CM) audits and reviews, and software safety analysis. Generate design lifecycle phase V&V reports, including CM reports, as defined by the V&V planning documentation. Participate and support auditing, inspections and review of suppliers. Assess, and as necessary participate, in code and high-level software and firmware language