Head of Technical Integration

About this role

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Blue Energy’s mission is to unlock energy abundance, energy affordability, energy security, and turn-key decarbonization by developing the fastest path to deploying new nuclear MWs at scale. We are utilizing shipyard manufacturing supply chains and techniques from offshore oil and wind to reduce the cost of nuclear plants by over 60% and the manufacturing timeline to 24 months. Blue Energy is a platform technology that makes use of the latest NRC-approved reactors and is in negotiations with existing nuclear and industrial sites, enabling a much faster regulatory pathway to deploy our first unit. With our innovative centralized shipyard manufacturing approach, we can put nuclear power on a cost-reduction learning curve akin to wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries.

Job Summary:

The Head of Technical Integration is the accountable Technical Authority for Blue Energy’s portfolio of engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) and engineering services contracts. The role exists to ensure that all deliverables produced under these contracts are delivered in full conformance with the contractual terms, the owner’s requirements, and the applicable codes, standards, processes, and regulatory requirements that govern the work.

The technical direction of any individual contract sits with the assigned Owner’s Technical Director, who is responsible for technical assurance on that contract. The Head of Technical Integration is accountable for ensuring that technical assurance is consistently defined, applied, and enforced across the entire portfolio of contracts. Where the Design Authority is concerned with whether the right thing is being designed — establishing and owning the owner’s requirements — the Head of Technical Integration is concerned with whether the thing is being designed right. In this capacity the role is the accountable Technical Authority: it owns the engineering standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies, and assurance frameworks that govern how technical work is executed and verified, and confirms that applicable codes, standards, processes, and requirements are adhered to throughout design and delivery.

The role is accountable for monitoring and reporting the degree of technical compliance across the portfolio, identifying the root causes of non-conformances, and implementing a corrective action program to eliminate those causes and prevent recurrence. The Head of Technical Integration is also accountable for effective technical interface management — between suppliers, and between suppliers and the owner — proactively finding and eliminating gaps and overlaps in scope across supplier boundaries. The role is deeply embedded in design reviews and works closely with the Quality organization, particularly on nuclear safety-related deliverables. The Head of Technical Integration is a principal participant in the management of change process for live contracts, including the technical evaluation of Change Order requests, applying informed technical and commercial judgment to protect the owner’s interests and ensure the owner is not exploited through the change process. Head of Technical Integration, once commissioning and start-up commence will be the key individual to monitor and negotiate performance guarantees with suppliers, and as such need to be intimately involved in how each scope of work is instrumented to enable this responsibility.

The position is expected to report to the Engineering Director (or VP of Engineering) and works alongside the Design Authority, the Quality organization, the commercial/contracts function, and the Owner’s Technical Directors. You will have authority over engineering technical assurance standards and the enforcement of technical compliance across the portfolio, and you will be expected to lead and develop a technical integration team to accomplish these objectives.

Responsibilities:

Technical Authority & Assurance

- Act as the accountable Technical Authority for the contract portfolio, providing independent technical assurance that deliverables conform to the owner’s requirements, the technical baseline, and applicable codes and standards.

- Establish and enforce the technical assurance framework that defines how engineering work is checked, reviewed, verified, and approved across all contracts.

- Provide a consistent point of technical escalation and adjudication where Owner’s Technical Directors require portfolio-level direction or resolution of cross-contract technical issues.

- Confirm that competent, qualified personnel are assigned to technical verification activities and that levels of independent review are commensurate with safety classification and risk.

Engineering Standards, Codes & Procedures Governance

- Own, develop, and maintain the suite of engineering standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies, and work instructions that govern technical execution and assurance.

- Maintain a controlled register of applicable codes, standards, and regulatory requirements (e.g., ASME BPVC Section III, ASME NQA-1, the ASME B31 piping codes, IEEE, ANSI, and 10 CFR 50 Appendix B) and confirm their correct application to each contract.

- Define and govern requirements management and technical baseline control, ensuring traceability from the owner’s requirements through design, analysis, and verification.

- Establish design verification and validation (V&V) expectations, including checking, independent technical review, and design review standards.

Technical Compliance Monitoring & Corrective Action

- Define compliance metrics and monitor the degree of technical compliance across the portfolio, providing periodic reporting to leadership.

- Lead the investigation of technical non-conformances and conduct or oversee root cause analysis (RCA).

- Establish and operate a corrective and preventive action (CAPA) program to address systemic causes and prevent recurrence; track actions to closure

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