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- Freshness
- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed September 29, 2026
- Classification
- Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Nuclear Energy
- Pay provenance
- Estimated benchmark; not employer-provided
Job Description
Kairos Power is seeking highly motivated Operators to support our plant operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Follows policies, principles, procedures, standards, and practices to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation of plant areas.
- Operates and field checks process equipment. Monitors process conditions, key performance metrics, equipment and control systems and makes appropriate decisions to maintain and/or achieve desired rates and conditions aligned with Kairos’s goals.
- Performs scheduled operational and related tasks and tasks that arise because of resolving unplanned events.
- Works with shift team members and other shift teams to leverage skills and knowledge to balance workload ensuring assigned tasks are completed by due dates.
- Conducts effective shift relief, as defined in facility specific operating discipline and tools, to ensure effective communication and handoff to arriving shift team.
- Maintains qualification in assigned areas, per Kairos’s policy, and completes training goals in a timely manner. This includes using discretionary time to address skills and knowledge gaps.
- Mentors and trains new and existing operations personnel on process operation, troubleshooting and the use of operating discipline in alignment to Kairos’s training process.
- Performs Immediate Response activities, as assigned.
- Initiates and documents preliminary investigations according to plant specific process/criteria and participates in formal and informal root cause investigations for events
- Tracks and utilizes the plant's Key Performance Indicators on shift that are applicable to the role to optimize operations and identify improvement opportunities. Uses process knowledge and skills to make improvements in plant performance and operating discipline. Proactively identifies improvements and opportunities utilizing the facility improvement processes, appropriate management of change processes and communication tools.
- Performs minor maintenance, including minor repairs and preventative maintenance, utilizing appropriate policies, procedures, processes, and disciplines.
- Commissions, and operate mechanical and electrical equipment.
- Prepares, reviews, and executes system and component level commissioning, and operating procedures.
- Performs acceptance testing following new equipment installation including hydrostatic, pneumatic, I/O checks, and electrical component calibrations checks.
- Supports day-to-day operations of the assigned facility including startup, monitor, and shutdown processes and auxiliary equipment.
- Performs chemistry sampling and analysis using standardized analytical instruments and procedures.
- Performs equipment troubleshooting as necessary and effectively escalates issues to the appropriate support roles
- Perform Lockout-Tagout of mechanical and electrical equipment.
- Reviews and executes hazardous operations per standardized operating procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Associate degree in a Process Technology or related program or equivalent or 2+ years of experience as a plant operator or technician (mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, chemicals, power plant, military, or similar backgrounds are highly desired)
- Ability to understand, follow and create technical procedures.
- Ability and interest in being cross trained and learning different processes to perform other jobs as needed.
- Ability and willingness to work with hazardous materials in PPE including SCBA, full-face respirator and Tyvek suit.
- Familiarity with basic hand tools
- Mechanically inclined with an ability to operate plant equipment, hands-on experience with plant equipment and operations desired
- Experience with Instrumentation and Controls systems
- Computer skills including spreadsheet use.
- Ability to communicate with others effectively.
- Ability to read P&ID and mechanical/electrical drawings.
- Proficient in Microsoft applications, such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team.
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others by working safely and complying with EH&S standards.
- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge.
- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges, and issues.
- Occasionally requires overtime to support start-up and commissioning activities and vacation.
- Rotating Shift is required, which may include working on weekends and holidays as needed.
- Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines.
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Benefits & Perks
- We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
- Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
- Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810
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