Engineering Assistant Manager - Design

Summary

Centrus is seeking an Assistant Engineering Manager to help lead daily Design Engineering activities and provide continuity of leadership when the Engineering Manager is unavailable. This role will support the AC100 Machine Design, Gas Test Stand Project, and other Design Team priorities.

Daily tasks will require working across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Project Management teams to ensure technical work and design changes are completed safely, accurately, and compliantly. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can coordinate complex day to day execution of engineering activities, resolve issues, and maintain strong change-control discipline.

What You'll Be Doing

You will assist the Engineering Manager by coordinating daily engineering work, setting priorities, and providing technical leadership for Design Engineering projects and manufacturing support activities. You will help ensure designs, drawings, specifications, and technical documentation are complete, accurate, and ready to support project and production needs.

Your work includes managing engineering changes resulting from the ESO process, manufacturing feedback, nonconformances, and project requirements. You will coordinate the review, approval, documentation, and implementation of Engineering Change Records (ECRs), Material Condition Reports (MCRs), and Design Deviation Requests (DRs).

You will partner with Manufacturing, Quality, Operations, and Project Management to resolve technical issues, support troubleshooting and corrective actions, track engineering commitments, and keep leadership informed of project status, risks, and resource needs.

We'd Love to Hear from Candidates with

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Nuclear, Chemical, or related Engineering discipline

• Five or more years of engineering experience in equipment design, manufacturing support, fabrication, or a regulated industrial environment

• Experience leading engineering projects, technical work packages, or cross-functional teams

• Experience with engineering change control, design documentation, drawings, specifications, and technical reviews

• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, fabrication, and production support

• Strong communication, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills

A Successful Candidate Brings

• Experience supporting complex machine design, test equipment, facility systems, or capital projects

• Familiarity with ECRs, MCRs, DRs, nonconformance resolution, and corrective-action processes

• Ability to coordinate effectively across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Project Management

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to safe, compliant, high-quality engineering execution

• Experience in nuclear, aerospace, defense, energy, or another highly regulated industry

Pay

Estimated Starting Base Salary Range: $117,778 -$196,297. This position is Incentive eligible. Centrus considers several factors when extending job offers, including but not limited to candidates’ key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. While the posted range reflects the anticipated hiring range for this position, compensation above the range may be considered for candidates with exceptional qualifications and directly relevant experience.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

This position will require a pre­-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

Centrus Energy and all subsidiaries shall abide by the applicable legal requirements. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

This position requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance. Candidates for positions requiring a security clearance are required to be tested for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR 707.4 prior to an offer of employment being made. In addition, once employed, employees will become part of a random drug testing program and may also be tested in the event of any incident causing injury or causing damage to property, or if it is determined that there is a reasonable suspicion the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This position will require preemployment background check on the part of the Company and in order to receive a Q security clearance, a background investigation by the Federal government. Subsequent Federal government reinvestigations may be required.

Centrus Energy Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Identification: 800

Job Category: Centrus Job Family

Job Schedule: Full time

Degree Level: Bachelor's Degree

Job Shift: Day