Materials Science Manager, Nuclear Ceramic Materials

Description

• Drive schedule ownership to accelerate the completion of milestones
• Own and manage the delivery of Helion’s inorganic materials needs such as plasma containment vessels, insulators, and resistors
• Lead, develop, and support subject matter experts driving the development and scale-up of advanced inorganic materials engineered for extreme environments, including elevated temperature and radiation exposure
• Translate annual goals into objective tasks and manage month-to-month planning towards completing goals and objectives.
• Build and manage a network of collaborative relationships, both internally and externally, to develop new materials that can survive a fusion environment

Requirements

• Ability to organize the team to execute with urgency, and favor learning through rapid prototyping
• Successful and autonomous mentorship of employees of a wide range of expertise, experience, and backgrounds, demonstrated (e.g., via several performance review cycles and successful coaching of direct reports)
• Experience developing new inorganic and hybrid materials from ideation to launch
• Experience or deep knowledge of high purity monocrystalline and polycrystalline ceramics processes including sintering, CVD, slip casting, sol-gel, hydrothermal, and injection molding. Experience with SiC is preferred
• Hands-on experience in analytical equipment to characterize ceramics properties including structural, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties (e.g., XRD, SEM, TEM, TGA/DSC, ICP-MS)
• Experience (i) managing a materials science team that delivered a high-impact final product, (ii) expanding a talent-dense team via a hiring process, and (iii) owning the schedule for a critical path facet of a milestone project
• Fluent in some people management systems (e.g., recruiting, timecard management, spend approval, and performance reviews) and applying company policies as described in an employee handbook

Benefits

• Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
• 31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
• 10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
• Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
• Annual wellness stipend

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance