TRX International

Powering the future of nuclear energy with world-class talent.

TRX is a recruitment firm built exclusively around one industry. We place the engineers, physicists, operators and licensing specialists that the nuclear sector depends on, across new build, operations, decommissioning, waste management, SMRs and fusion.

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Areas of nuclear power covered

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Disciplines mapped in depth

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Continents where we run mandates

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Engagement models, staff to interim

The whole lifecycle, and what comes next.

Large new build

Gigawatt programmes fail on people long before they fail on concrete. The scarce commodity is not engineering talent in general. It is people who have carried a nuclear power plant reactor through to first criticality once already.

Horizon
10 to 15 years from site preparation to handover
What gates it
Site licence conditions, and regulator acceptance of key post holders
Hardest to find
Commissioning leadership with completed unit experience. Very few people have done it, and every nuclear project worldwide wants the same top talent.

Roles we fill here

Safety case authorsLicensing managersCommissioning engineersCivils and structuresMechanical and E&IProject controlsDesign authorityQuality and NDT

Nuclear hiring is not like other hiring.

A general recruiter can find you an engineer. What they cannot usually do is tell whether that person will survive a technical panel, or why an outage date is immovable. Three things decide most nuclear searches, and none of them show up on a keyword match.

We read the safety case

Our consultants can tell the difference between someone who authored a safety case and someone who reviewed one. That single distinction decides most nuclear shortlists, and it is invisible to keyword matching.

The pool is global and small

For fusion and first of a kind fission, the qualified population worldwide is measured in hundreds. Searching one country is not searching. It is hoping.

Outage dates do not move

A refuelling window is fixed years in advance. We work backwards from the date the role has to be filled by, rather than treating every candidate as available on Monday.

What the difference looks like in practice.

Understands what the role actually does
Matches keywords from the job description
Can tell an author from a reviewer on a safety case
Regulatory literacy
Asks whether you have worked in nuclear before
Knows what transfers between ONR, NRC and CNSC, and what does not
Search geography
The country the role sits in
Wherever the qualified population is, with export control checked
Shortlist size
Twenty CVs, lightly filtered
Three to six people, each with a written technical rationale
Lead time against outage dates
Treats every role as available immediately
Works back from the window the role has to be filled by
When a role is unfillable as written
Runs the search anyway and bills for the time
Says so in the first week and proposes how to restructure it
Candidate confidentiality
CV circulated to build client relationships
Nothing sent anywhere without the client being named and agreed

Whichever side you are on, start here.

Employers

Retained and contingent search for permanent, contract and interim roles, across every stage of the lifecycle and every major nuclear market.

  • Shortlists built against your licence conditions, not a keyword match
  • Eligibility, export control and compliance confirmed before you see a CV
  • Staff, contract and interim employees handled efficiently by the same team
  • An honest answer in week one if the role cannot be filled as written
How we run a search

Candidates

A conversation with someone who understands what you actually do, and who will be honest about whether a move is worth making at all.

  • Roles that are real, funded and actively moving in the nuclear energy sector
  • Straight answers on pay, programme funding, relocation, and efficiency
  • Your CV never sent anywhere without the client named and agreed
  • A reliable reply either way, including when the answer is no
Work with us

Before you get in touch.

No. Most nuclear programmes need staff, contract and interim resource at the same time, often on the same team. We cover all three rather than handing you between desks. Outage cover and the permanent hire that follows it are usually one conversation.
We run mandates across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia. For the narrowest disciplines, particularly in fusion and radioactive waste management, a single country search is not really a search at all. The qualified population is spread across a handful of programmes and construction companies globally.
We establish nationality, residency history and export control exposure early, because these constraints eliminate candidates late and expensively otherwise. On sensitive programmes we agree the eligibility criteria with you in writing before approaching anyone, ensuring compliance with international energy agency guidelines.
Our depth is in civil power across the six areas above. We take defence adjacent and research reactor work where it genuinely overlaps, and we refer on where it does not. A fee is not worth a search we would run badly.
Yes, though most of our work is mid career and senior. Graduate hiring is usually better run in house, often involving universities, and we will say so where that is the case.

Tell us what you are trying to build.

Send the role, the site and the constraints. We will tell you honestly whether the market can fill it, and what it will take.