Director, Physical Security | NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT

Licensing and Project Development Support

• Support licensing activities associated with new reactor deployments, including Construction Permit Applications, Combined License Applications, Operating License Applications, Early Site Permits, and Part 53 licensing activities.

• Develop physical security, access authorization, fitness for duty, insider threat, and safeguards strategies for multiple reactor technologies and deployment models.

• Lead development of security plan content, safeguards information controls, security program descriptions, physical protection analyses, target set considerations, and regulatory submittal inputs.

• Support site selection, site layout, facility design, security-by-design reviews, construction planning, commissioning planning, and operational readiness activities.

• Coordinate with licensing, engineering, operations, emergency preparedness, cyber security, legal, compliance, and project development teams to integrate security requirements into project execution.

Physical Security Program Development

• Develop and maintain corporate nuclear security standards, governance frameworks, program documents, procedures, and implementation guides for advanced reactor projects.

• Establish scalable physical protection models appropriate for advanced reactor technologies, deployment sizes, staffing models, and site configurations.

• Develop security force strategies, training and qualification programs, drills and exercises, response planning, contingency response expectations, and program performance monitoring methods.

• Evaluate security-by-design opportunities, including facility layout, delay and detection features, access controls, protected area concepts, central alarm station concepts, security communications, and response coordination.

• Ensure security programs are capable of supporting licensing, construction, fuel receipt, startup testing, commercial operation, and long-term fleet operations.

Access Authorization, Fitness for Duty, and Insider Threat

• Design and oversee access authorization program requirements for advanced reactor facilities, including suitability, trustworthiness, reliability, behavioral observation, and continuing evaluation considerations.

• Develop strategic program expectations for fitness for duty, behavioral observation, drug and alcohol testing interfaces, contractor access, vendor access, and unescorted access authorization.

• Establish processes for investigations, adverse information review, access denial or revocation support, and coordination with legal, human resources, labor relations, and compliance functions.

• Develop insider threat program expectations and interface requirements with security, cyber security, human performance, personnel reliability, safeguards information, and site leadership.

• Support development of common access authorization approaches that can be applied across multiple sites and technologies while accommodating project-specific regulatory commitments.

Safeguards and Sensitive Information Protection

• Develop safeguards strategy and governance for protected, sensitive, and security-related information associated with advanced reactor projects.

• Establish programmatic expectations for safeguards information handling, security-related document controls, need-to-know access controls, and interface with licensing and engineering document management processes.

• Support development of physical protection and safeguards inputs for licensing documents, security plans, procurement specifications, facility design reviews, vendor evaluations, and operational readiness reviews.

• Coordinate with cyber security, information governance, legal, export control, supply chain, and project teams to protect sensitive security-related information throughout the project lifecycle.

• Evaluate domestic and international safeguards practices to identify lessons applicable to advanced nuclear deployment.

Technology Evaluation and Deployment

• Provide nuclear security and safeguards expertise to support evaluation and deployment of AP1000 and other Generation III+ reactors, SMRs, microreactors, high-temperature gas reactors, sodium fast reactors, and advanced non-light-water reactor technologies.

• Evaluate security and safeguards implications associated with different reactor technologies, source terms, fuel forms, site configurations, staffing models, deployment scales, and operational concepts.

• Develop standardized security and access authorization approaches capable of supporting fleet-wide deployment while preserving technology-specific licensing flexibility.

• Advise project teams on security-by-design considerations that can reduce lifecycle costs, improve licensing clarity, and support efficient operations without compromising regulatory compliance or nuclear security.

Commercial Services and Business Development

• Develop and lead external nuclear security, access authorization, and safeguards advisory services offerings.

• Support generation of new revenue streams by providing security program development expertise to reactor vendors, utilities, developers, government agencies, military installations, and other nuclear industry partners.

• Lead development of security plans, access authorization program frameworks, safeguards strategies, physical protection evaluations, regulatory submittal inputs, and readiness assessment services for external clients.

• Support business development efforts by identifying market opportunities and developing security and safeguards service offerings for advanced reactor developers and original equipment manufacturers.

• Represent the company as a credible industry partner capable of helping advanced reactor vendors close security, access authorization, and safeguards capability gaps.

Assessment, Investigations, and Program Excellence

• Direct security program assessments, audits, benchmarking activities, independent reviews, and readiness evaluations.

• Establish performance indicators and monitoring programs to evaluate security, access authorization, and safeguards effectiveness.

• Oversee investigation protocols related to security events, access authorization concerns, safeguards information issues, property protection, deviations from approved plans, and fitness for duty matters.

• Evaluate domestic and international operating experience, security event reports, inspection results, and industry lessons learned for applicability to company programs.

• Ensure corrective actions, preventive actions, and continuous improvement initiatives are implemented and tracked through appropriate governance processes.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Security Management, Nuclear Engineering, Engineering, Emergency Management, National Security, Public Administration, or a related technical or security discipline.

• Master's degree in a related field preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in nuclear security, physical protection, access authorization, fitness for duty, safeguards, military security, law enforcement, regulatory affairs, or a closely related field.

• At least five (5) years of leadership experience in nuclear security, access authorization, safeguards, regulatory affairs, or related security disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience interacting directly with the NRC, law enforcement agencies, or other regulatory and security authorities.

• Experience supporting advanced reactor, SMR, microreactor, Generation III+, or Generation IV reactor development activities strongly preferred.

• Experience developing, implementing, assessing, or maintaining NRC-regulated security, access authorization, fitness for duty, or safeguards programs preferred.

Desired Qualifications

• Recognized industry expert in nuclear physical security, access authorization, safeguards, or related regulatory programs.

• Experience developing or maintaining nuclear security plans, access authorization programs, safeguards information programs, fitness for duty programs, insider threat programs, or physical protection strategies.

• Participation in NRC rulemaking initiatives, NEI working groups, industry security forums, standards development activities, or advanced reactor licensing initiatives.

• Experience supporting COLA, ESP, Part 50, Part 52, or Part 53 licensing efforts.

• Demonstrated business development, consulting, or client-facing technical services experience.

• Strong understanding of advanced reactor technologies and associated security, safeguards, staffing, and deployment challenges.

• Existing relationships within NRC, DOE, NEI, national laboratories, reactor vendors, utility security organizations, law enforcement, or federal security organizations.