Advanced Project Manager
About The Position
Westinghouse is seeking an Advanced Project Manager to manage 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 manager owns project execution from initiation through closeout and is accountable for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and delivery goals. The position applies agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods and ensures regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met. It directs integrated planning and project controls across workstreams, maintains reliable project and portfolio data across enterprise tools, leads reviews and change control, and owns financial performance, risk management, delivery acceptance, and closeout activities. The role reports to the Operations Manager of Nuclear Fuel Engineering Operations and is based in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, with a hybrid arrangement combining remote flexibility and regular on-site collaboration.
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 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 from initiation through closeout for large, complex projects with multiple workstreams, establishing accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and delivery goals.
- Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while ensuring regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements are met.
- Direct integrated planning across workstreams for 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 (PWA), including milestones, dependencies, constraints, critical path, baselines, status dates, progress, and forecasts.
- Ensure reliable and consistent project and portfolio data across approved enterprise tools, including Project Server/PWA, SAP, Active Risk Manager, Azure DevOps, Jira, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI.
- 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 closeout.
- Assess delivery against intended results and apply lessons learned across projects to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance.
Benefits
- Medical benefits that may include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and Health Savings Account (HSA) options with employer contributions.
- Wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program for employees and household members.
- 401(k) with company match contributions.
- Paid vacations and company holidays.
- Opportunities for flexible work arrangements.
- Educational reimbursement and comprehensive 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
