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TITLE: Project Account Engineer, Fuel & Materials Development & Qualification LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA 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. 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. Project Account Engineer, Fuel & Materials Development & Qualification The Project Account Engineer (PAE) is an engineer within the Natrium organizational structure who has been given responsibility and authority under the Natrium Senior Managers for performance management of one or more control (cost code) accounts, and for planning and managing performance of the resources authorized to accomplish such work. The PAE is a project management-oriented role focusing on project performance management that reports directly to the Senior Manager of Fuel Development & Qualification. Project account engineer responsibilities include schedule planning and status, cost planning and management, measurement of accomplishment, actual cost collection, variance analysis and resultant corrective action, estimating costs at completion, and risk management. The PAE manages the control account (cost code) where technical scope, schedule, and budget are integrated. The PAE will have regular weekly and monthly communication with managers and tech leads within the Senior Manager's group. Responsibilities Lead schedule development and update efforts during project design phase cycles, budget cycles, and long-range planning development. Coordinate with supporting Project Coordinator(s), delegate responsibilities and ensure accountability for completion, conduct performance management reports. Coordinate with interfacing teams and other project organizations to develop cohesive strategies and processes across organizational lines and ensure accurate and complete hand-offs are executed. Verify that activity management is properly executed by engineering team and summary information is reported in a timely manner to project controls team. This includes accurate duration and resource estimates, correct sequencing of tasks, and identification of interfaces with other work products internal and external to the control account. Solicit inputs from engineering staff for status in the master control schedule and hold the team accountable for performance on tasks. Monitor and analyze cost and schedule variances using the earned value management system through data reports, actual costs, and integrated schedule actuals compared to the time-phased budget. The PAE will report on variances and develop recovery plans and variance management plans as necessary. Closely monitor performance of the team against the