Job Summary:
Ready to turn manufacturing challenges into smarter, faster, and more efficient solutions? As a Senior Industrial Engineer at Centrus Energy, you’ll play a key role in optimizing production operations at our Technology and Manufacturing Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From improving process flow and reducing waste to supporting product launches and scaling manufacturing performance, you’ll help drive operational excellence in a high-tech, mission-critical environment where innovation and efficiency go hand in hand.
What You Will Do:
You’ll analyze and improve manufacturing operations by identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, enhance productivity, and reduce waste across the production environment. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll lead initiatives involving plant layout optimization, staffing strategies, process improvements, and value stream mapping to improve availability, performance, and quality metrics. You’ll also support product launches, supply chain logistics, and manufacturing planning activities while helping develop and refine manufacturing processes that meet schedule, budget, quality, and safety requirements. Along the way, you’ll collaborate with engineering, operations, and quality teams to ensure manufacturing systems remain efficient, scalable, and compliant with industry standards.
We’d Love to Hear from People With:
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical, industrial, or related engineering discipline
- Five or more years of manufacturing engineering or industrial engineering experience
- Experience with lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives
- Familiarity with manufacturing quality systems such as NQA-1, ISO, or AS9100
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced production environment
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance
A Successful Candidate Brings:
- Experience with composites manufacturing
- Familiarity with AIAG Core Tools
- Experience performing statistical analysis and interpreting production data
- Project management experience supporting manufacturing or production initiatives
- Experience supporting safety-significant or license-driven manufacturing systems
- Centrifuge manufacturing experience
- Currently possesses a “Q” or “L” clearance
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 employe, 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or related engineering discipline.
- 5+ years experience in manufacturing
- Experience with lean manufacturing
- Experience with industry manufacturing quality systems i.e. NQA-1, ISO-TS, AS9001
- Project Management experience
- Experience with composites manufacturing
- Preference will be given to applicants currently holding an active DOE Q level security clearance
What We Do
Centrus Energy is a trusted American supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry, helping meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon-free energy. Since 1998, the Company has provided its utility customers with more than 1,850 reactor years of fuel, which is equivalent to more than 7 billion tons of coal. With world-class technical and engineering capabilities, Centrus is pioneering production of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium and is leading the effort to restore America’s uranium enrichment capabilities at scale so that we can meet our clean energy, energy security, and national security needs. Find out more at CentrusEnergy.com.








