The nuclear industry is used to planning around long-lead equipment. If a component needs to be ordered years before an outage, you don’t wait until six months out and hope one is available. You identify the need, understand the lead time and secure it early enough to protect the schedule. I think we need […]
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Constellation is in the middle of a major digital I&C modernization at Limerick. The project team describes it as the nuclear industry’s first safety related digital I&C control upgrade of this scale. There are other digital upgrades to point to, but not one quite like this. At the same time, energy companies are figuring […]
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You post a job for a nuclear licensing engineer or a controls engineer, set the salary range, and wait. Two weeks pass. You’ve collected 47 applications. Your hiring team spends a day sorting through them, discovering that roughly 40 are from candidates whose actual experience bears little resemblance to what the posting described. The remaining […]
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TL;DR Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire aren’t competing options. They’re different tools for different problems. For engineering and energy work, most problems are project-shaped. Contract vs. direct hire depends on four dimensions: cost, flexibility, workforce strategy, and continuity. Comparing an hourly bill rate to an annual salary is an apples-to-oranges comparison, and the real cost […]
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Palisades, originally shut down in 2022, is slated to reopen this year. Three Mile Island Unit 1, now Crane Clean Energy Center, is targeting a 2027 restart. Google and Kairos Power will be building up to seven SMRs, targeting 2030 for the first unit. Executive orders seek 400 Gigawatts of new U.S. nuclear capacity by […]
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The nuclear workforce conversation usually gets framed as a supply problem. Not enough experienced people. Too many retirements. Too much demand from operating plants, license renewals, new builds, SMRs, advanced reactor developers, utilities, EPCs, and regulators all competing for the same talent. Now, that’s all still true. The nuclear workforce shortage is real, but […]
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Hiring is not an exact science. You can do everything right, solid job description, thorough interviews, checked references, and still end up with someone who looks completely different on the job than they did across the table from you. For most organizations, the only way to find out is to make the hire and wait. […]
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The nuclear workforce shortage is well-documented at this point. Thirty to forty percent of the industry is approaching retirement age, demand is growing across operating plants, license renewals, new builds, and the SMR pipeline, and the traditional answer has been the same: find someone who already has nuclear experience. But that search is getting […]
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If you lead engineering in a regulated energy environment, you already know the staffing pressure is real. Qualified people are hard to find. The DOE has documented significant hiring difficulty across the sector, with retirements outpacing new entrants. When a gap opens up before an outage, during a capital project, or ahead of a license […]
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The energy sector is in the middle of a transformation. Utilities are modernizing grids. Oil and gas operators are balancing traditional production with energy transition investments. Nuclear plants are extending licenses and building new capacity. Data centers are going up everywhere, and they’re energy-hungry by design. Across every corner of the industry, demand is rising. […]
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