Principal Project Manager - APX Fleet Engineering Execution
About The Position
The APX Fleet Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver one or more complex AP1000 engineering work packages. The role works within an assigned portfolio and partners with the Lead Project Manager or Program Manager, Lead Engineer, Functional Engineering, and Project Controls to establish and maintain an executable delivery plan. The Principal Project Manager is accountable for assigned scope, schedule, cost, resource coordination, risks, issues, interfaces, forecast accuracy, and completion evidence. The position independently drives day-to-day execution and elevates portfolio-level conflicts or decisions through the appropriate leadership path. The role reports to the Director - Project & Portfolio Planning and is hybrid at the Cranberry Woods, Pennsylvania or Rock Hill, South Carolina facility.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Business, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of progressive project management, engineering, project engineering, or project-controls experience.
- Demonstrated experience planning and delivering complex work packages or projects with multiple contributors and interfaces.
- Working experience with scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, forecasting, and performance reporting.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned engineering work packages from authorization through accepted completion, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, interfaces, and actions.
- Develop and maintain work-package plans with clear ownership, milestones, logic, forecast dates, and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure assigned scope and progress are accurately represented in the Integrated Engineering Schedule.
- Coordinate engineering contributors, technical leads, Project Controls, and interfacing organizations to maintain execution alignment.
- Monitor actual performance, update remaining forecasts, and communicate material variance and recovery actions.
- Identify risks, constraints, and decisions early; drive issue resolution and escalate matters that exceed work-package authority.
- Maintain action, change, and decision records and support configuration-controlled completion evidence.
- Provide concise status to the Lead Project Manager or Program Manager and support portfolio reporting.
- Apply standard Project Afterburner tools, processes, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement practices.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
