Advanced Project Manager - Cranberry, PA

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network • Cranberry Twp, PA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

Westinghouse is hiring a Principal 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 & 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 that combines remote flexibility with 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.
• Experience working 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.

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.
• Familiarity with SAP, Active Risk Manager, Primavera P6, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams, or equivalent tools.

Responsibilities

• Own execution from project initiation through closeout for large, complex projects with multiple workstreams, establishing accountability for safety, quality, technical, customer, contractual, schedule, financial, and project goals.
• Apply agile, predictive, or hybrid delivery methods while meeting regulatory, quality, and configuration requirements.
• Direct integrated workstream planning 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 project closeout.
• Assess delivery against intended results and apply lessons learned across projects to improve predictability, quality, efficiency, and risk avoidance.
• Capture lessons learned and lead improvements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits, which could include medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution options.
• Wellness programs, including an Employee Assistance Program for employees and their household members.
• 401(k) with company match contributions.
• Paid vacations and company holidays.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Educational reimbursement and comprehensive career programs.
• Global recognition and service programs.
• Employee referral program.

What This Job Offers

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