Senior Operations Specialist, Salt Production Facility
Kairos PowerAlbuquerque, NM
Full Time
Posted September 30, 2026
$123k - $175k· Est.
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 1, 2026
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- 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 a highly motivated Senior Operations Specialist to serve as a senior technical resource within the Operations organization supporting plant design, construction, commissioning, startup, and transition to routine operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Operations group’s technical specialist for plant design, construction, commissioning, and startup, providing experienced operational judgment from engineering design through turnover to routine plant operations.
- Review engineering designs for operability and commissioning readiness, including Utility system, Piping and valve arrangements, Equipment layouts and accessibility, Isolation strategies, and Control strategies and system interfaces.
- Identify plant designs that may be difficult or unsafe to operate, commission, isolate, or maintain, and work collaboratively with Engineering to develop practical alternatives.
- Recommend improvements to equipment arrangement, routing, valving, accessibility, and other design features that affect safe and reliable plant operation.
- Represent Operations during equipment fabrication, construction, installation, testing, and acceptance activities.
- Participate in field verification and validation of operating and commissioning procedures, system configurations, and design assumptions before turnover to Operations.
- Capture and incorporate commissioning, startup, and operating lessons learned into procedures, design improvements, and future project activities.
- Support verification that required operating procedures, technical documentation, drawings, and system information are available and suitable for turnover to Operations.
- Participate in and support Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), equipment receipt planning, Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), and field inspections.
- Independently identify, document, communicate, and drive resolution of construction and installation deficiencies that could affect safe or reliable operation, and work with appropriate stakeholders to support their resolution, including Flange integrity and torquing, Bolting and mounting, Fixed-equipment installation, Equipment accessibility, Piping, valve, and component configuration.
- Develop and coordinate Operations input to plant commissioning and startup plans and execution packages.
- Support development and integration of commissioning and startup schedules, including system turnover, sequencing, testing, and operational readiness activities.
- Define and coordinate commissioning activities such as Pressure testing, Water or other safe-material testing, System flushing and preparation, Equipment checkout, and System turnover and acceptance.
- Identify and support the procurement of temporary equipment, materials, and tools required for commissioning and startup, including generators, air compressors, temporary hoses, gaskets, tanks, pumps, and specialty tools.
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on field guidance during commissioning and startup activities.
- Troubleshoot plant, equipment, construction, and commissioning issues and develop practical solutions in collaboration with Engineering, Construction, and Operations personnel.
- Provide technical direction and training to operators performing commissioning and startup activities.
- Support Pre-Startup Safety Reviews (PSSR), system turnover, plant readiness assessments, and operational readiness activities.
- Develop, review, and provide technical guidance for plant operating procedures, including Equipment-specific operating procedures, Commissioning procedures, Plant startup procedures, Plant shutdown procedures, and Abnormal and off-normal operating procedures.
- Provide Operations input and technical guidance for control narratives and other documentation defining how plant systems and equipment are operated.
- Support development, review, and rationalization of plant alarms to ensure appropriate operator response and effective plant control.
- Serve as a senior Operations technical resource to Engineering and project teams supporting Management of Change (MOC), Plant improvement projects, Design modifications, New capital projects, Construction and installation activities, and Commissioning and startup planning.
- Apply independent operational judgment to identify risks, improve designs, resolve technical challenges, and support safe and reliable plant operation.
- Proactively identify issues that could impact plant safety, operability, maintainability, commissioning, startup, schedule, or long-term reliability, and drive those issues toward resolution.
- Support plant Operations activities as directed by Operations leadership.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in operations, commissioning, startup, maintenance, or technical support of complex industrial process facilities.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the construction, commissioning, startup, or operation of newly constructed or significantly modified industrial facilities.
- Experience coordinating or supporting system turnover and operational readiness activities.
- Experience interpreting engineering drawings, P&IDs, equipment documentation, and technical specifications.
- Experience providing technical guidance to operations or commissioning personnel.
- Experience reviewing engineering designs from an operational and field-execution perspective.
- Experience developing or executing commissioning plans, startup plans, operating procedures, test packages, or system turnover documentation.
- Experience participating in equipment inspection, FAT, SAT, construction walkdowns, punch listing, system turnover, or acceptance activities.
- Experience working collaboratively with multidisciplinary Engineering, Construction, Operations, Maintenance, and other project stakeholders.
- Experience working in facilities involving hazardous materials, complex chemical processes, high-temperature systems, or comparable industrial hazards preferred.
- Experience supporting PSSR, PHA/HAZOP, MOC, operational readiness, or comparable process-safety activities preferred.
- Requires occasionally working weekends
- Requires occasional schedule flexibility
- Requires occasional non-standard work-week hours
- Requires occasionally working 2nd shift, beginning at 3:00pm local time
- Requires occasionally working 3rd shift, beginning at 11:00pm local time
- Requires occasional extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines
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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