Development Architect, responsible for the integration of the reactor and the industrialization of the design

Field: Engineering / Architecture

Attachment: Technical Department / Architecture and Integration Unit

Profile: Experienced Architectural Engineer; Disciplines General Engineering, Integration and Industrialization

Context:

Calogena was created within the Gorgé industrial group to develop, market, build and operate 30 MW thermal modular heat reactors to supply carbon-free heat to urban grids.

The Calogena reactor is a water-based SMR, with a very passive and simple design, which provides it with very robust safety. Calogena is the winner of the France2030 call for “innovative reactors” projects.

The preliminary design of the reactor is committed until 2025. This will be followed by a detailed three-year design and then the production of a prototype to prepare for the transition to the reactor series. Construction is expected to begin in 2030.

The APS team is in the process of gaining momentum. It is organized as a Project Platform, with an extended team capacity involving strategic partners. The Technical Platform is located in Aix-en-Provence.

The Project team consists of a project unit, an architecture unit, and a business unit. The cells are positioned on the Project Platform, placed under the responsibility of the Technical Department.

The architecture unit brings together the skills and capacities to carry out the development of the project in interaction with the managers of the project unit and the business unit

You will join the Project team of the Caligena reactor module.

You join the architecture cell.

In conjunction with the technical director, you will be responsible for the integration architect.

You are in charge of the specification, design and studies relating to:

– the layout of the reactor,- the integration of the reactor,- the industrialization of the reactor construction,

as well as associated steering and coordination actions.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Coordination of the functional and technical specification of the reactor installation; coordinator of the Definition Justification File (DDF) of the reactor facility;

• Responsible for the reactor product tree and the control of the reactor configuration management; responsible for reactor interfaces and modifications;

• Responsible for the reactor integration and the control of the reactor-level design data and files in close collaboration with the digital model manager of the business unit;

• Responsible for the study of the general layout of the reactor in interface with the other architects, the safety engineer, the digital model manager;

• Responsible for the integration of systems at the reactor level in interface with the other architects, the safety engineer, the digital model manager;

• Responsible for the approach and modularization studies of construction and manufacturing in interface with the other architects, the safety engineer and the business unit;

• Responsible for sequencing and optimization of industrialization, manufacturing and construction schedules in interface with the other architects, the safety engineer and the business unit;

• Interface with the safety engineer: development and control of installation safety data for licensing;

• Interface with the PMO manager: elaboration and control of planning data and associated costs.

You have a Bac+5, a graduate of an engineering school or equivalent foreign training, at least M.Sc.Eng.

You have an experienced and proven profile in the nuclear sector, including at least 10 years’ experience in a position of responsibility in the design and industrial construction of a nuclear reactor.

You have demonstrated experience in project management, technical decision-making and complex business management.

Your experience has allowed you to build a strong culture as a facility-wide designer, a very robust safety culture, and a strong focus on operations.

Particular experience in the fields of industrialization, manufacturing and construction monitoring on the scale of large projects is an asset for the position.

You have an approach that is both very rigorous and very agile, pro-active. You have a demonstrated ability to coordinate and manage teams and external studies.

You have strong organizational, structuring and synthesis skills, combined with solid technical and practical knowledge in the fields of nuclear facility design.

You have a practical understanding of the regulations for the design and operation of NBIs, and the associated codes and standards. You have good writing skills.

You have a strong command of IT tools in project design, in particular relating to integration and digital mock-up activities.

You know how to effectively combine the control of quality, safety, cost and planning objectives with a capacity for proposals, advice and resolution within the Plateau team.

You have very good listening and communication skills, a strong aptitude for a wide variety of internal and external contacts, a strong team spirit.

You have a very good level of English, reading, writing, speaking. Proficiency in a second European language is a plus.