[Hiring] Licensing Director @Elementl Power

Role Description

We're excited to add a Licensing Director to our growing regulatory team! Reporting to the SVP, Licensing & Regulatory Affairs, you'll lead project-level nuclear licensing strategy and execution across our portfolio. Serving as Elementl's primary NRC interface for assigned scopes and owning delivery of all licensing workstreams from pre-application through operations.

What You’ll Do!

• Strategic Licensing Leadership
  • Develop and maintain project-specific licensing strategies and regulatory roadmaps, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives and consistency across the portfolio.
  • Translate corporate strategy into actionable licensing approaches, regulatory positions, and submittal plans across all project phases — ESP, CP, COLA, OL, LARs, exemptions, and departures.
  • Enforce pre-application regulatory discipline, including compliance with 10 CFR 50.10 restrictions on construction prior to issuance of a Construction Permit or Combined License and NRC communications controls.
  • Monitor regulatory developments and emerging NRC guidance; brief senior leadership and recommend defensible approaches.
• Licensing Operations
  • Direct planning, preparation, and integration of NRC licensing applications and submittals, including ESP, CP, COLA, OL, license amendments, topical reports, white papers, and RAI responses.
  • Own the project-level safety-basis and licensing-basis framework, including design bases, regulatory commitments, safety analysis interfaces, and document traceability.
  • Oversee safety-related scope performed by the reactor vendor/NSSS designer, A&E, OE support organizations, and other contractors, ensuring safety analyses, design inputs, PRAs, and licensing representations are accurate, traceable, and consistent with the established safety basis.
  • Coordinate with Environmental & Permitting to integrate NRC licensing with NEPA reviews and non-NRC permits, ensuring consistent assumptions and messaging across agencies.
  • Ensure licensing activities are conducted under approved QA, records controls, configuration management, and sensitive information protocols.
  • Ensure compliance with 10 CFR 50.9 completeness and accuracy requirements.
• Regulatory Engagement & External Interface
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day interface with NRC Project Managers and technical reviewers.
  • Prepare for and lead NRC staff-level engagements — public meetings, audits, and workshops.
  • Identify and manage regulatory risks affecting licensing basis, schedule, or cost; elevate significant issues with recommended options.
  • Support hearing preparation and adjudicatory proceedings, including licensing testimony and coordination with legal counsel.
• Team Leadership
  • Lead and mentor Licensing Project Manager(s) and licensing staff, defining priorities and driving performance against milestones.
  • Support resource planning and budget management for project-level licensing activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (nuclear engineering preferred).
• 10+ years of nuclear regulatory and licensing experience, with progressive responsibility on complex NRC licensing activities under Part 50 and/or Part 52.
• Hands-on experience leading NRC licensing efforts for large nuclear facilities — CPs, OLs, COLAs, license amendments, and technical specification changes.
• Track record of integrating safety analyses, design bases, and operating experience into defensible licensing positions.
• Trusted technical authority specifically credible with NRC staff, respected by your team, and able to navigate complex regulatory challenges with sound judgment and rigor.

Requirements

• Prior service as a licensed Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) with supervisory responsibilities in a commercial LWR environment (preferred).

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous paid time off, personal time, and flexibility.
• Company-sponsored short- and long-term disability coverage and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with an impressive company match.
• Additional benefits designed to support your well-being and success.
• Work from anywhere - our team operates 100% remotely across the United States!