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TerraPower Project Controls Engineer in Bellevue, Washington
TITLE: MCFR Project Controls Engineer LOCATION: Bellevue, WA 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. MCFR Project Controls Engineer The Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) Project Controls Engineer supports the planning, scheduling, cost tracking, status reporting, schedule analysis, project performance reporting and project baseline change control for MCFR projects at TerraPower. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate proficiency in working scheduling with Microsoft Project or similar scheduling tool, Excel, Jira and Confluence software. The Project Controls Engineer will work closely with various project stakeholders including the project manager, project engineers, group and system leads, as well as other teams and/or individuals and stakeholders while supporting overall MCFR Project Management. Responsibilities: * Utilize EVMS principles and other project management best practices while supporting project manager and team group leads in the execution of defined scope and deliverables * Support month-end Earned Value reporting process including assessing of BCWS, BCWP, ACWP, SPI, CPI, EAC, BAC, and VAC for MCFR projects * Contribute to monthly project status reports that track and communicate overall project work performance in terms of scope, schedule, budget, and risk * Assist group leads and project manager in developing and maintaining the resource loaded master project schedule in Microsoft Project * Regularly update and provide progress reports, layouts, and publication of the master schedule * Assist with project change control for changes affecting baseline budget, scope or schedule which exceed established thresholds * Support and manage MCRE project-specific processes and process improvements Key Qualifications and Skills * Ability to adapt-to and rapidly learn new software and processes. Demonstrated experience learning and becoming proficient with new software may be acceptable in lieu of specific software experience. * Demonstrated affinity for understanding key objective and intent and then working with stakeholders and software tools to improve a process or system to make it more efficient. * Bachelor's degree in technical field, or equivalent project controls experience. Project scheduling experience in Microsoft Project or Microsoft Project Online or other schedule software, preferably including experience in research and development, engineering, or nuclear industry. * PMP or AACE certificate is highly preferred. * Experience with Atl