<p>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.”</p> <p>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. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. </p> <p><strong>Nuclear Security Training Instructor Job Summary</strong></p> <p>The Nuclear Security Training Instructor develops, delivers, administers, and evaluates initial, continuing, remedial, and requalification training for armed and unarmed security personnel assigned to an nuclear construction site and eventually an operating commercial nuclear power plant.</p> <p>The instructor ensures that security personnel demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform assigned security duties before independent assignment and maintain those qualifications thereafter. Training shall be conducted in accordance with the station’s NRC-approved Training and Qualification Plan, Physical Security Plan, Safeguards Contingency Plan, protective strategy, security implementing procedures, and applicable regulatory requirements.</p> <p>The position supports the safe and secure operation of the nuclear facility by maintaining a fully qualified security organization capable of protecting against radiological sabotage, preventing significant core damage and spent-fuel sabotage, responding to security contingencies, and performing assigned duties during construction phase and operating at normal, abnormal, outage, and emergency conditions.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Maintain qualification, training, examination, evaluation, and instructor records.</li> <li>Track qualification and requalification dates and notify management of potential lapses.</li> <li>Update training materials to reflect regulatory, procedural, equipment, and operational changes.</li> <li>Evaluate training effectiveness using performance results, observations, drills, audits, and corrective-action trends.</li> <li>Provide subject-matter expertise during inspections, audits, assessments, and security-program reviews.</li> <li>Coordinate training activities with Nuclear Security and other station organizations.</li> <li>Protect Safeguards Information, examination materials, security plans, and other sensitive information.</li> <li>Reinforce nuclear safety and security culture, procedural adherence, accountability, and timely reporting.</li> <li>Maintain instructor qualifications, certifications, access authorization, and technical proficiency.</li> <li>Participate in continuing professional and instructor-development activities.</li> <li>Deliver emergent, outage, backshift, weekend, and holiday training as required.</li> <li>Support drills, exercises, NRC inspections, and station emergencies.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>High school diploma or recognized equivalent.</li> <li>5+ years of progressively responsible experience in commercial nuclear security, military protective-force operations, law enforcement, critical-infrastructure security, or a comparable armed-security environment.</li> <li>At least two years of experience in commercial nuclear power security is strongly preferred for independent instructor qualification.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience conducting classroom instruction, on-the-job training, task-performance evaluations, practical exercises, or security-force qualification activities.</li> <li>Demonstrated knowledge of performance-based training and systematic instructional-development principles.</li> <li>Working knowledge of 10 CFR Part 73, Appendix B to Part 73, applicable portions of 10 CFR Part 26, and the security requirements applicable to an operating nuclear power reactor.</li> <li>Ability to complete the station’s instructor qualification process before independently conducting or documenting regulated qualification activities.</li> <li>Ability to obtain and maintain unescorted access authorization.</li> <li>Ability to obtain and maintain authorization for access to Safeguards Information based on need-to-know, trustworthiness, and reliability.<