Lead Project Manager

BWXT • Idaho Falls, ID

13d • $136,000 - $207,000 • Onsite

About The Position

BWX Technologies is hiring a Lead Project Manager for its Technical Services Group, Inc. – BWSR, LLC, based on-site at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The role leads medium and/or complex projects, including facility modifications, infrastructure improvements, equipment installations, system upgrades, and other capital projects, across the full project life cycle from scoping and planning through design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

The Lead Project Manager is accountable for project cost, schedule, scope, quality, technical performance, and execution. The position coordinates multidisciplinary internal teams and external stakeholders, manages contractors and subcontractors, oversees project risks and interfaces, and ensures work complies with approved designs, nuclear quality requirements, safety controls, configuration-management requirements, and site procedures. The role also provides project reporting, leads project personnel, and supports reviews, assessments, audits, lessons learned, and corrective actions.

The position requires a relevant bachelor’s degree, extensive relevant and project-management experience, a current PMP or equivalent certification, substantial construction experience in a nuclear or comparably regulated environment, and the ability to obtain and maintain DOE L clearance and radiological dosimetry. U.S. citizenship is required; dual citizenship is not permitted. The work takes place in a highly regulated, safety-conscious, security-sensitive environment and is subject to applicable access, training, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline; a degree is required for NOG positions.
• Typically at least 12 years of relevant experience with a technical degree, or 16 years with a non-technical degree.
• Typically 8–15 years of project management experience.
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or an equivalent recognized project-management certification.
• At least 5 years of substantial experience executing construction projects in a nuclear environment, or another highly regulated environment with comparable safety, quality assurance, configuration management, work control, and documentation requirements.
• Demonstrated experience managing field construction execution, including contractor oversight, work planning, sequencing, schedule control, quality inspections, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience managing complex capital, facility, equipment, infrastructure, or environmental projects from design and procurement through construction and final acceptance.
• Experience coordinating construction activities involving radioactive and/or hazardous materials, waste generation, handling, treatment, storage, transportation, or disposal.
• Demonstrated experience with integrated scheduling, cost and schedule control, risk management, change control, contractor management, and performance reporting.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy “L” clearance.
• U.S. citizenship; dual citizenship is not permitted for this position.
• Ability to obtain and maintain radiological dosimetry in support of the Naval Reactors Program.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly regulated, safety-conscious, security-sensitive environment and comply with applicable access, training, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Certification as a licensed professional.
• Experience working in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program or another highly regulated nuclear, defense, energy, or federal environment.
• Experience leading nuclear facility construction, modification, modernization, deactivation, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience with nuclear construction work packages, field change control, quality verification, testing and commissioning, system turnover, and as-built documentation.
• Experience supporting DOE project reviews, life-cycle management, baseline development, EVMS implementation, or major-system acquisition activities.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety culture, quality assurance, radiological protection, environmental compliance, and hazardous-material controls.
• Experience managing projects with significant interfaces among government organizations, contractors, suppliers, regulators, and technical authorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of medium and/or complex projects, including facility modifications, infrastructure improvements, equipment installations, system upgrades, and related capital projects.
• Manage activities across the full project life cycle, from scoping, planning, design, and procurement through construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Maintain accountability for project cost, schedule, scope, quality, technical performance, and overall execution.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, construction, operations, quality assurance, safety, environmental, security, project controls, suppliers, and commissioning activities.
• Identify project opportunities, risks, and issues, and adjust project strategies to pursue opportunities or mitigate impacts.
• Apply an advanced understanding of the company’s business to improve project cost effectiveness, support change management, and improve project margin.
• Influence and negotiate business, technical, and scope issues with customers, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure project and construction activities comply with approved designs, specifications, work packages, configuration-management requirements, nuclear-quality-assurance requirements, safety controls, and site procedures.
• Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance, including productivity, schedule adherence, quality, staffing, work planning, site coordination, and corrective actions.
• Manage project interfaces and integration risks involving ongoing operations, facility systems, engineering organizations, project controls, suppliers, and site stakeholders.
• Lead project risk and opportunity management, including work sequencing, constructability, material availability, industrial safety, radiological controls, quality, and system turnover.
• Provide timely project status reports and briefings on progress, critical-path activities, cost and schedule performance, risks, quality issues, and recovery plans.
• Support readiness reviews, construction completion reviews, testing and commissioning, independent assessments, audits, lessons learned, and corrective-action implementation.
• Motivate project teams, build respect across disciplines, and lead project and/or discipline managers and other project personnel to achieve project objectives.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans.
• Flexible work schedules and paid time off to promote a healthy work-life balance.
• Professional development opportunities, including mentorship programs and sponsorship for continuing education.
• Inclusive atmosphere that celebrates new perspectives and supports collaboration between different generations.
• Opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on the future of energy.
• Opportunities for continuous learning and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior