Hiring: Senior Vice President, Operations Company: The Nuclear Company Location: Lexington, KY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:22:59 About the job Experience: •15+ years of progressive leadership experience in nuclear plant operations, with direct senior leadership accountability at a US nuclear generating station — Plant Manager, Vice President of Operations, or equivalent required. •Direct experience building or significantly restructuring a nuclear operating organization — this role requires the judgment and leadership capability to design and build an operations function from scratch, not just inherit and maintain an existing one. •INPO evaluation experience as a senior executive — direct accountability for plant performance metrics, INPO evaluation outcomes, and corrective action program health at the senior leadership level. •Demonstrated nuclear safety culture leadership — a track record of building and sustaining the behavioral standards, corrective action program discipline, and safety conscious work environment that defines top-tier nuclear operating organizations. •Commercial judgment sufficient to engage credibly with external partners on operational readiness services — this is not purely an internal operations role; the external services mandate requires the ability to represent TNC’s capability in commercial and partner conversations. Required Skills: •As TNC’s organizational structure matures and the company scales, reporting lines may be adjusted to reflect evolving business needs — the scope and accountabilities of this role are not contingent on any single reporting structure. •Operations Organization Build •Design and build TNC’s nuclear operating organization from the ground up — defining the structure, staffing model, qualification requirements, and training program that will allow TNC to receive and operate its first plant at fuel load. •Establish TNC’s nuclear safety culture from the first hire — the operating culture that takes root in the early days of organization-building is the culture that governs plant safety for the life of the facility. This is not a compliance exercise; it is the foundation of everything TNC does as an operator. •Coordinate with the SVP, Regulatory Affairs, Quality & Training on the training program for TNC’s operating organization — operator qualification, simulator training, and ongoing training program development are a shared accountability between Operations and the regulatory/training function. •Fuel Load Handoff & Initial Operations •Receiving the plant from the Deployment team at fuel load is one of the most complex transitions in the nuclear lifecycle. The SVP, Operations owns TNC’s readiness for that transition. Qualifications: •The most urgent mandate of this role is building TNC’s operating organization before it is needed. Operating organizations take years to build, qualify, and license. The time to start is now. •Develop the operating staffing plan for TNC’s lead project — identifying the number, qualifications, and timeline for licensed and non-licensed operating staff required to support fuel load and initial commercial operations. •Establish TNC’s operating procedures program — emergency operating procedures, abnormal operating procedures, and normal operating procedures are the foundation of licensed operations. These must be in place and validated before fuel load. •Engage during commissioning alongside the SVP, Deployment — ensuring the operating organization is ready to receive the plant, that all pre-operational testing is complete, and that the plant’s technical documentation is sufficient to support licensed operations. •NRC-licensed Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) or equivalent operating authority experience strongly preferred — deep personal familiarity with the technical and regulatory demands of licensed nuclear operations is a baseline expectation for this role. Compensation: •$300,000 - $350,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!