What we do at Blykalla

Blykalla is a Swedish deep-tech company at the forefront of the nuclear industry, pioneering the development of small modular reactors that provide clean, safe, and reliable energy. Thanks to lead-cooling, we achieve high safety in a very compact format, allowing for a simple and cost-effective design that can be mass-produced. Our unique reactor design will provide safe and green baseload energy that perfectly complements solar and wind power.

What you’ll get to do

ou will lead the civil and structural discipline within Plant Engineering, ensuring that buildings, structures, foundations, and site works enable safe, constructable, and efficient plant delivery.

You set the technical direction, coordinate across disciplines, and ensure high-quality, timely deliverables. Working across the full project lifecycle, from design through construction and commissioning; you turn requirements into practical, buildable solutions.

You will also drive our plant-as-a-product vision, applying modular design and DfMA principles to improve how we fabricate, construct, and commission our plants.

Responsibilities

You are responsible for contributing to Blykalla’s plant engineering capability by incorporating the areas below into your daily work:

Discipline leadership and planning

• Lead the civil and structural scope for a plant area, project, or major work package.

• Plan deliverables, priorities, reviews, and resource needs for your discipline.

• Set clear expectations on quality, interface handling, and schedule commitments.

Design basis and technical execution

• Define and maintain civil and structural design criteria, specifications, means and methods, load assumptions, design basis, and modularization / DfMA principles for your scope.

• Confident to work directly in modeling tools such as Plant 3D, Revit, Tekla.

• Lead or review design of structures, foundations, supports, building envelopes, and site civil works, with attention to fabrication, transport, lifting, and assembly constraints for modular delivery.

• Review analyses, specifications, reports, and drawings and make sure they are traceable to requirements and fit for issue.

Interfaces and integration

• Coordinate interfaces across all plant and product disciplines to ensure discipline design supports the product as a whole.

• Resolve issues related to equipment loads, penetrations, dynamic demands, access, lifting, temporary conditions, and constructability.

• Support three-dimensional model reviews and make sure the physical arrangement can be built, inspected, maintained, and modified.

Suppliers and external partners

• Prepare technical input to requests for quotation, bid evaluations, and supplier requirements.

• Review supplier and contractor documents, including means and methods inputs and temporary condition assumptions where civil and structural review is needed, and close comments in a timely way.

• Represent the discipline in meetings with partners, contractors, independent reviewers, and authorities when needed.

Project delivery and change control

• Give reliable input to estimates, schedules, risk reviews, and change requests.

• Escalate technical risks early and propose practical mitigation actions.

• Provide timely support to design reviews, safety reviews, constructability reviews, means and methods reviews, RFI responses, site queries, and field changes.

Team development and ways of working

• Mentor engineers and designers, share lessons learned, and improve methods, templates, checklists, and standards.

• Help build a civil and structural discipline that can scale with Blykalla’s project needs and support a plant-as-a-product mindset through modular design, DfMA, and design for construction and commissioning.

Who’ll you’ll get to work with

The Civil & Structural Lead sits in the Plant Engineering Team within Blykalla, and reports to the Plant Engineering Manager. We are a diverse team that is passionate about our work and Blykalla.

Who you are

You will be part of a highly skilled team with a can-do attitude. We value personnel chemistry and strive to create a workplace where you enjoy coming to. You are expected to keep yourself up to date with the latest advancements and continuously improve the skills of your trade, while having in mind the expectations below.

Domain knowledge

• Lead the civil and structural discipline across a major plant area, a full project, or multiple complex work packages.

• Solve ambiguous and unique problems by taking a broad view of technical, delivery, and interface constraints.

• Set review strategy, quality expectations, design criteria, and modularization approach for the discipline and support others in applying them consistently.

• Technical understanding and practical application of Eurocodes (EN 1990 - 1999) and / or US Codes (IBC, NFPA 5000, ASCE/SEI)

• Coach engineers across teams and raise the overall capability of the discipline.

Business understanding

• Anticipate issues with broad impact on schedule, constructability, modular delivery, supplier performance, permitting, or cost and act before they become critical.

• Give significant input to function strategy, resource planning, external support needs, and ways of working across Plant Engineering.

• Balance technical rigor with practical delivery and help the organization make sound trade-offs.

Cultural contribution

• Act as a role model across teams and create an environment that brings out the best in others.

• Build trust across functions by being transparent, dependable, and solution-oriented.

Main Metrics

Main metrics for this role may include:

• Civil and structural deliverables issued to the agreed plan.

• Deliverable quality, including first-pass review quality, preventable field rework, and late design changes.

• Closure time for review comments, RFIs, interface issues, and site questions.

• Fit for purpose design based on specification requirements and quantities.

• Predictability of discipline estimates, priorities, and risk escalation.

• Contributions to team capability through mentoring, standards, modular design practices, and tool improvement.

Security Obligations

The employee shall adhere to all governing policies, guidelines, and instructions of Blykalla such as information security policy, acceptable use of company assets, data privacy policies, and employee code of ethics.

Location

This position is for our office in Stockholm.

So, what do you think?

Don't miss the chance to be at the forefront of revolutionizing nuclear power. Join our team as Civil & Structural Lead and help shape the energy landscape of tomorrow. Apply today with your resume and a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience and achievements.

We are proud to foster an inclusive workplace free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product. This is something we value deeply and we encourage everyone to be a part of changing the way the world thinks about power supply!

We do not accept applications via email.

We are not open to external help from recruitment agencies.

Team

Plant Engineering

Locations

Stockholm