Director, Physical Security | NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT

About this role

Job Posting End Date 08-26-2026 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

Responsible for establishing and leading the company's nuclear security, physical protection, access authorization, fitness for duty, insider threat and safeguards strategy for a fleet of advanced nuclear technologies, including Generation III+, Generation IV, small modular reactors, microreactors, and other emerging reactor designs. The position serves as the company's senior subject matter expert for nuclear security and safeguards programs applicable to new reactor deployments, with responsibility for developing scalable, technology-informed, risk-informed, and regulation-ready approaches that support licensing, construction, commissioning and long-term operation. The Director will engage with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, industry organizations, reactor developers, law enforcement partners, and other stakeholders to shape security and safeguards requirements for advanced nuclear facilities. The Director is also responsible for developing security and access authorization solutions that support the company's reactor deployment strategy while creating value-added advisory and program development services for advanced reactor vendors, utilities, federal agencies, military installations, and other nuclear industry partners. Job Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Security and Safeguards Regulatory Strategy • Serve as the company's senior subject matter expert on nuclear security, physical protection, access authorization, fitness for duty, insider threat, and safeguards requirements applicable to advanced reactors. • Monitor, evaluate, and influence NRC rulemaking, regulatory guidance, policy initiatives, and industry standards related to advanced reactor security and safeguards. • Develop company positions on technology-inclusive, scalable, risk-informed, and performance-based security requirements for advanced nuclear facilities. • Lead company participation in NRC public meetings, industry working groups, NEI task forces, standards committees, and security-focused regulatory forums. • Establish strategic relationships with NRC staff, DOE, FEMA as applicable, state and local law enforcement, reactor developers, national laboratories, utility partners, and other security stakeholders

Licensing and Project Development Support • Support licensing activities associated with new reactor deployments, including Construction Permit Applications, Combined License Applications, Operating License Applications, Early Site permits, and Part 53 licensing activities. • Develop physical security, access authorization, fitness for duty, insider threat, and safeguards strategies for multiple reactor technologies and deployment models. • Lead development of security plan content, safeguards information controls, security program descriptions, physical protection analyses, target set considerations, and regulatory submittal inputs. • Support site selection, site layout, facility design, security-by-design reviews, construction planning, commissioning planning, and operational readiness activities. • Coordinate with licensing, engineering, operations, emergency preparedness, cyber security, legal, compliance, and project development teams to integrate security requirements into project execution

Physical Security Program Development • Develop and maintain corporate nuclear security standards, governance frameworks, program documents, procedures, and implementation guides for advanced reactor projects. • Establish scalable physical protection models appropriate for advanced reactor technologies, deployment sizes, staffing models, and site configurations. • Develop security force strategies, training and qualification programs, drills and exercises, response planning, contingency response expectations, and program performance monitoring methods. • Evaluate security-by-design opportunities, including facility layout, delay and detection features, access controls, protected area concepts, central alarm station concepts, security communications, and response coordination. • Ensure security programs are capable of supporting licensing, construction, fuel receipt, startup testing, commercial operation, and long-term fleet operations.

Access Authorization, Fitness for Duty and Insider Threat • Design and oversee access authorization program requirements for advanced reactor facilities, including suitability, trustworthiness, reliability, behavioral observation, drug and alcohol testing interfaces, contractor access, vendor access, and unescorted access authorization. • Develop strategic program expectations for fitness for duty, behavioral observation, drug and alcohol testing interfaces, contractor access, vendor access, and unescorted access authorization. • Establish processes for investigations, adverse information review, access denial or revocation support, and coordination with legal, human resources, labor relations, and compliance functions. • Develop insider threat program expectations and interface requirements with security, cyber security, human performance, personnel reliability, safeguards information, and site leadership. • Support development of common access authorization approaches that can be applied across multiple sites and technologies while accommodating project-specific regulatory commitments.

Safeguards and Sensitive Information Protection • Develop safeguards strategy and governance for protected, sensitive, and security-related information associated with advanced reactor projects. • Establish programmatic expectations for safeguards information handling, security-related document controls, need-to-know access controls, and interface with licensing and engineering document management processes. • Support development of physical protection and safeguards inputs for licensing documents, security plans, procurement specifications, facility design reviews, vend

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