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Program Director – First Commercial Reactor (FOAK)
Thorizon Engineering · Amsterdam
IND sponsor
What you will do
- Own the project: You own the successful delivery of Thorizon'sfirst commercial reactor, from today’s design,engineering and licensing activities through industrialization,construction and commissioning. You define and drive the integrated roadmap across engineering, validation, licensing, permitting, civil works, supply chain development and deployment, managing dependencies, risks and milestones to bring the reactor to commercial reality.
- Deliver a competitive reactor: Working closely with the CTO and multidisciplinary engineering teams, you ensure technical excellence translates into an executable project. You continuously optimize the design and manage trade-offs between safety, performance, reliability, manufacturability, constructability, schedule and cost, so the reactor meets its performance, availability and lifetime targets while remaining licensable,buildable and commercially competitive..
- Build the Industrial Ecosystem:You build long term relationships with engineering companies, civil contractors, manufacturing partners,suppliers and strategic partners that enable successful deployment. You define the industrial delivery strategy, supply chain, procurement approach and future delivery model required to scale the technology from first deployment to commercial fleet rollout.
- Drive Project Excellence:You establish the governance, planning, risk management and execution framework required to deliver a first of a kind reactor program. You create the structure, decision making processes and project controls that let teams execute with pace while maintaining the rigor nuclear delivery requires.
- Define the plant requirements:You work closely with future operators, end users and key stakeholders to translate operational needs into plant requirements, functional specifications and project priorities, ensuring alignment throughout the program and laying the foundation for commercial success.
- Drive Licensing and Permitting:You build trusted relationships with regulators and public authorities to establish the licensing, permitting and site development strategy for the program. You define the long term roadmap, align key milestones, and enable timely progression of activities.
- Build and Lead the Team:You recruit,developand lead a multidisciplinary project organization, creating an environment where systems engineers, project managers and technical specialists collaborate effectively and deliver with ownership,pace and engineering rigor.
- ShapeThorizon's Future:You help define how Europe builds its next generation of nuclear reactors. Beyond delivering the First Commercial Reactor, you shapeThorizon's project management approach, industrial capabilities and organizational development as the company scales toward commercial deployment.