Chief Nuclear Officer – Nuclear Operations Leadership

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Responsible, within defined delegations, for ensuring the safe and dependable operation of a nuclear fleet or site.

• Supervise safe, reliable operational performance and uphold nuclear safety standards.

• Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements while fostering a constructive and transparent relationship with regulators.

• Lead performance initiatives for the fleet or site and ensure long-term asset management.

• Enhance workforce skills, promote leadership development, and ensure succession planning across essential disciplines.

• Oversee outages, maintenance activities, and ensure operational preparedness.

• Provide oversight from an operations perspective on refurbishment, new construction, and commissioning processes.

• Manage the quality of contractors and supply-chain operations.

• Encourage organizational learning, independent evaluation, and effective corrective measures.

• Communicate risks and uncertainties to executive teams and boards.

• Support public trust and stakeholder confidence in collaboration with the chief executive and corporate affairs team.

• Maintain a commercial focus while adhering to safety and regulatory commitments.

• Register with Rutherford Talent Guild for potential future permanent leadership roles.

• Engage in curator reviews, invited assessments, curator interpretations, and the membership decision-making process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive nuclear leadership experience, such as Chief Nuclear Officer, site vice-president, station director, nuclear operations executive, or a credible successor.

• Proven authority and accountability for operational scope, which includes units, sites, technologies, and personnel.

• Experience in making critical decisions where safety considerations conflicted with scheduling, costs, or production pressures.

• Demonstrated ability to identify issues, encourage dissent, and respond to challenging information.

• Experience in sponsoring corrective actions and ensuring that issues are resolved effectively.

• Proven track record of developing leaders and depth in succession planning.

• Capability to convey technical risks to boards and regulators.

• Ability to articulate the operational and lifecycle contexts led, including steady-state operations, refurbishment or life extension, restarts, fleet recovery, or readiness for new owner-operators.

• Relevant operator certifications, engineering qualifications, and similar credentials may be considered; however, none are required for registration.

• No set minimum years of experience requirement is applicable.

• Expression of interest does not imply work authorization, local licensing eligibility, or security clearance.

• A current résumé is required for registration.

• Registration necessitates function N01 Chief Nuclear Officer and sector S11 Nuclear Power Generation.

🏝️ Benefits

• A tailored long-term career relationship with assessment interpretation, clarification of mandates, development priorities, and selective introductions where there is a suitable fit and under applicable arrangements.

• RutherfordINTEL Assessment and curator evaluation based on experience, accomplishments, and objectives.

• Opportunities for permanent, interim, advisory, board-adjacent, project, and fractional engagement roles.

• Global consideration for nuclear leadership positions.

• Optional LinkedIn profile submission.

• No fixed minimum years of experience requirement.

• No registration fee or stated compensation.