Advanced Project Manager - Cranberry, PA
About The Position
Westinghouse Electric Company is seeking a Principal Project Manager to lead high-complexity projects with substantial financial, technical, and customer commitments. The role directs multidisciplinary teams across departments and locations, including project managers and workstream leads, on fuel engineering software, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, methods, capital, and process improvement initiatives. The position reports to the Operations Manager of Nuclear Fuel Engineering Operations and is based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, with a hybrid work arrangement combining remote flexibility and regular on-site collaboration. The Project Manager owns project execution from initiation through closeout, ensuring accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and other project goals. The role applies agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while meeting regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements. It owns project financial performance, integrated schedules and controls, change management, and risk and opportunity management, and leads project reviews and project closeout. The position also applies lessons learned to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years leading medium- to high-complexity projects; alternatively, at least 5 years in project management plus 3 years in relevant technical leadership may be considered.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with complex commercial interfaces, executive decision support, and project management mentoring.
- Ability to integrate Finance, Legal, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, Engineering, and Information Technology requirements.
- Experience in nuclear power, nuclear fuel engineering, or a comparable highly regulated technical environment, with demonstrated ability to work within rigorous engineering, quality, and governance requirements.
- Advanced Project Server/PWA expertise in integrated multi-workstream schedules, resource capacity, baselines, and portfolio reporting.
- Experience directing schedule assurance, critical path analysis, earned value, forecasting, and complex recovery planning.
- Experience integrating Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar agile tools with enterprise project controls for multi-release software delivery.
- Familiarity with SAP, Active Risk Manager, Primavera P6, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, or equivalent tools.
Responsibilities
- Own execution of large, complex projects with multiple workstreams from initiation through closeout, establishing accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and project goals.
- Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met.
- Direct integrated planning across workstreams, covering scope, deliverables, work breakdown structure, schedule, cost and revenue, resources, quality, procurement, communications, stakeholders, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
- Own logic-driven, resource-loaded schedules in Microsoft Project Server/Project Web App, including milestones, dependencies, constraints, critical path, baselines, status dates, progress, and forecasts.
- Ensure reliable and consistent project and portfolio data across approved enterprise tools to support integrated controls, traceability, and executive decisions.
- Lead project reviews and present forecasts, risks, issues, options, and recommendations.
- Own financial performance for substantial project budgets and revenue commitments; challenge estimates, baselines, expenditure plans, accrual inputs, and estimates to complete.
- Lead change control and integrated risk and opportunity management across workstreams; evaluate technical, commercial, regulatory, resource, and cross-project impacts; establish mitigation and contingency strategies; and negotiate changes within delegated authority.
- Direct acceptance, transition, financial reconciliation, records retention, and resource release at project closeout.
- Assess delivery against intended results and apply and capture lessons learned to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance across projects.
Benefits
- Medical benefits, which may include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and an HSA with employer contribution options
- Wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program for employees and household members
- 401(k) with company matching contributions
- Paid vacations and company holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
- Educational reimbursement and career programs
- Global recognition and service programs
- Employee referral program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
