Project Delivery Test Manager

Energy Northwest•Richland, WA

3d•$167,142 - $250,714•Onsite

About The Position

The Extended Power Uprate Project Delivery Test Manager provides strategic leadership, technical oversight, and governance for all testing and validation activities across assigned projects or the portfolio. This role ensures that testing activities are planned, executed, and documented in accordance with project requirements, engineering standards, regulatory expectations, and organizational quality frameworks. The Test Manager partners closely with Project Managers, Engineering Leads, Operations, and Quality organizations to ensure readiness, manage risks, and verify that systems meet performance, safety, and functional requirements prior to delivery or deployment.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree field from accredited college or university in Engineering or a related technical field and eighteen years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment.
OR Associate’s degree from accredited college or university and twenty years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment.
OR High School Diploma/GED and twenty-two years of relevant experience in system testing, commissioning, validation, or verification within an Operations, Work Control Management, Engineering, Nuclear, Military or other complex technical environment.
Must have demonstrated leadership experience managing cross-functional test teams, complex schedules, risks, and interfaces across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

Serves as the senior authority for test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, system/component flushing to avoid foreign material and formal closeout; Thereby, ensuring all activities comply with approved procedures, safety requirements, and quality standards.
Identifies and manages technical and programmatic risks affecting system performance, integration, and test execution while providing governance over all test documentation, including plans, procedures, logs, anomaly reports, and final test reports.
Maintains alignment across requirements, baselines, and verification pathways through close coordination with Project Delivery, Engineering Technical Authority, Quality Assurance, and Configuration Management.
Guides team members through complex technical and schedule challenges, facilitates collaborative problem‑solving, and ensures that all disciplines are coordinated during planning, execution, and closeout of test activities.
Fosters a culture of accountability, safety, and technical rigor while mentoring team members, promoting effective communication, and driving consistent adherence to testing processes, standards, and organizational expectations.
Leads team engagement during readiness reviews, test execution, issue resolution, and post‑test evaluations to ensure successful and efficient delivery of testing outcomes that meet project requirements.
Leads the development of comprehensive test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria for complex engineering or technical systems.
Oversees the planning and execution of all test phases, including component testing, system integration testing, factory acceptance testing, field testing, and commissioning.
Communicates status, risks, issues, and constraints to leadership.
Leads and mentors test engineering teams.
Supports change management processes.
Ensures that lessons learned and continuous improvement practices are integrated into future testing efforts.
Supports ERO.
Supports Outage support including OCC.

Benefits

Substantial retirement benefits through three retirement programs including the Washington State Public Employees' Retirement System pension plan (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with an employer match component, and a 457(b) savings plan.
Multiple options for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance coverage.
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
Tuition reimbursement.
Student loan repayment.
Childcare subsides.
Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA).
Health savings account (HSA).
Supplemental life insurances.
Credit monitoring/identity theft insurance.
Personal time accrual rate of 160 hours per year.
Nine paid holidays throughout the Calander year.
No state income tax.
Cost-of-living lower than the national average.