Project Delivery Test Manager

Energy Northwest • Richland, WA

5d • $167,142 - $208,928 • Onsite

About The Position

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

The Test Manager is the senior authority for test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, system and component flushing to avoid foreign material, and formal closeout. The role oversees test documentation and coordinates with Project Delivery, Engineering Technical Authority, Quality Assurance, and Configuration Management to maintain alignment across requirements, baselines, and verification pathways. It leads comprehensive test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria, and oversees component testing, system integration testing, factory acceptance testing, field testing, and commissioning.

The manager guides, leads, and mentors team members through technical and schedule challenges, coordinates disciplines during test planning, execution, and closeout, and fosters accountability, safety, and technical rigor. The role communicates status, risks, issues, and constraints to leadership; supports change management; and incorporates lessons learned and continuous improvement into future testing. Support is also required for ERO and outage activities, including OCC. The selected applicant must be able to work onsite in Richland, Washington. The position is reassignment eligible.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering or a related technical field and 18 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 an associate degree from an accredited college or university and 20 years of such relevant experience; OR a high school diploma/GED and 22 years of such relevant experience.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing cross-functional test teams, complex schedules, risks, and interfaces across multiple disciplines.
• Ability to work onsite in Richland, Washington.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire and throughout employment; employment visa sponsorship is not provided.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership, technical oversight, and governance for testing and validation activities across assigned projects or the portfolio.
• Ensure testing activities are planned, executed, and documented according to project requirements, engineering standards, regulatory expectations, and organizational quality frameworks.
• Serve as the senior authority for test readiness reviews, test conduct, issue escalation, system/component flushing to avoid foreign material, and formal closeout.
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks affecting system performance, integration, and test execution.
• Govern test documentation, including plans, procedures, logs, anomaly reports, and final test reports.
• Coordinate with Project Delivery, Engineering Technical Authority, Quality Assurance, and Configuration Management to maintain alignment across requirements, baselines, and verification pathways.
• Guide and mentor team members through technical and schedule challenges; foster accountability, safety, technical rigor, and effective communication.
• Lead team engagement during readiness reviews, test execution, issue resolution, and post-test evaluations.
• Develop comprehensive test strategies, verification plans, and acceptance criteria for complex engineering or technical systems.
• Oversee component testing, system integration testing, factory acceptance testing, field testing, and commissioning.
• Communicate testing status, risks, issues, and constraints to leadership.
• Lead and mentor test engineering teams and support change management processes.
• Integrate lessons learned and continuous improvement practices into future testing efforts.
• Support ERO and outage activities, including OCC.

Benefits

• Annual at-risk compensation (ARC) incentive plan, with incentives based on agency performance against defined metrics and goals and subject to plan eligibility rules.
• Retirement benefits through Washington State Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and a 457(b) savings plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment, childcare subsidies, health reimbursement arrangement (HRA VEBA), health savings account (HSA), supplemental life insurance, and credit monitoring/identity theft insurance may be available as voluntary benefits.
• Qualifying employees typically begin personal time accrual at 160 hours per year; accrual increases at various service intervals.
• Nine paid holidays per calendar year.
• Washington State has no state income tax.

What This Job Offers

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