Company Overview
Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.
Job Summary
Kairos Power is seeking a motivated and inquisitive Supply Chain and Procurement (SC&P) Intern who will work under the supervision of the Procurement Lead at our Manufacturing Campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The SC&P Intern will be responsible for supporting the SC&P team, leveraging the opportunity to gain practical experience in a dynamic procurement department assisting with sourcing, purchase order management, data reporting, order expediting, and supplier relationship management.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the qualification, evaluation, negotiation, and selection of global suppliers and contractors.
- Assist with the sourcing and evaluation of goods and services, including market research, Requests for Quotation, Requests for Information, and Request for Proposal preparation.
- Assist with driving cost reduction through benchmarking, negotiation, should-be costing, and make vs. buy assessments for KP-FHR systems, structures and components.
- Create and manage purchase orders and subcontracts to ensure satisfactory performance.
- Perform tasks involved in the formulation and administration of purchase orders.
- Review material requisition from a supplier quality perspective.
- Support onsite inventory management.
- Embrace a proactive and solutions-oriented approach to overcome challenges and achieve procurement goals.
- Manage Coupa ERP system including monitoring of delayed or late orders, expediting of critical orders, and update and close out PO’s.
- Work closely with project teams, sales representatives, communicating and coordinating related purchases, problems, evaluation of services etc.
- Perform duties in accordance to Kairos Power policies and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School diploma.
- Actively working towards a Bachelor's or Associate’s Degree in a related field (Supply Chain or Business)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office – Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
- Self-starter and ability to make decisions with minimal supervision.
- Ability to comprehend and apply Procurement principles, policies, concepts and standards, and procedures, INCO Terms including price analysis, negotiations, ethics, terms and conditions and Procurement law.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
- Ability to independently plan, schedule and carry out work assignments, initiate and participate in the improvement of procurement practices.
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team.
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others.
Physical Conditions
- Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
- Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 10 pounds in all directions
- Communicating with others to exchange information
Environmental Conditions
- General office environment
- Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
- High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced
Safety and PPE
- Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
- Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
Additional Requirements
- Occasionally requires overtime
- Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
- Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines
About our Benefits
We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.
Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810
What We Do
Kairos Power has a mission to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal of dramatically improving people’s quality of life while protecting the environment.
We are an engineering company focused on the delivery of a clean, affordable and safe energy solution through the integrated design, licensing and demonstration of advanced reactor technology.
Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology that has the potential to transform the energy landscape in the United States and internationally.
Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter.
The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.
