Nuclear Localisation & Supplier Development Lead

About the role

NucFinder is looking for a Nuclear Localisation & Supplier Development Lead to help nuclear programmes determine what can realistically be supplied domestically and how local industry can develop the capabilities required to participate.

This is an industrial-development role rather than a conventional procurement role. Its focus is not only on identifying companies capable of supplying today, but on determining which domestic suppliers could become viable nuclear suppliers over the lifetime of a programme and what development path would be required.

You will connect nuclear project requirements with existing industrial capabilities, qualification needs, investment requirements and supplier-development actions.

Key responsibilities

1. • Develop localisation and local-content strategies for nuclear programmes.
2. • Translate reactor and project procurement requirements into potential localisation opportunities.
3. • Assess domestic industrial capabilities against specific equipment, system and service requirements.
4. • Identify which procurement packages can realistically be localised and on what timeframe.
5. • Analyse gaps in engineering capability, manufacturing processes, quality systems, certification, capacity and project experience.
6. • Segment suppliers according to current readiness and development potential.
7. • Define supplier-development pathways from industrial capability to nuclear qualification readiness.
8. • Establish localisation priorities, roadmaps, milestones and KPIs.
9. • Support make / buy / localise / import assessments.
10. • Assess requirements for technology transfer, licensing, industrial partnerships and joint ventures.
11. • Analyse opportunities for international suppliers to establish local manufacturing or supplier networks.
12. • Support governments, project developers and nuclear organisations in structuring domestic supplier-development programmes.
13. • Work with procurement, quality and technical specialists to convert localisation objectives into practical supplier-level actions.

Candidate profile

We are looking for a professional with experience in industrial localisation, supplier development or nuclear supply-chain development.

Relevant backgrounds include:

1. • nuclear localisation programmes;
2. • supplier development;
3. • industrial strategy;
4. • major-project supply chains;
5. • nuclear procurement;
6. • technology transfer;
7. • industrial partnerships;
8. • government or development-agency industrial programmes.

You should have:

1. • strong understanding of how nuclear project requirements translate into industrial capabilities;
2. • experience assessing the maturity and development potential of suppliers;
3. • ability to distinguish between capabilities available today and capabilities that could realistically be developed;
4. • understanding of nuclear qualification, quality and certification constraints;
5. • experience developing supplier-development plans, industrial roadmaps or localisation strategies;
6. • ability to analyse trade-offs between domestic production, imported supply and international partnerships;
7. • strong stakeholder-management skills across industry, government and project organisations;
8. • professional working proficiency in English.

Experience with new nuclear programmes, emerging nuclear markets, technology-transfer programmes or large-scale industrial localisation initiatives is a strong asset.

Professional proficiency in at least one additional language relevant to the market being assessed is particularly valuable for this role.

Typical assignments

You may be asked to:

1. • determine which equipment packages for a planned nuclear programme could realistically be produced domestically;
2. • assess the readiness of local manufacturers to become nuclear-qualified suppliers;
3. • identify the technical, quality and investment gaps preventing localisation;
4. • develop a five- or ten-year supplier-development roadmap;
5. • define measurable localisation KPIs for a nuclear programme;
6. • identify areas where joint ventures or technology-transfer arrangements may be necessary;
7. • assess how an international nuclear supplier could build a local supplier ecosystem.