Project Portfolio Manager (Nuclear)

LLNL•Livermore, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Site Infrastructure Management (SIM) is seeking a Project Portfolio Manager to lead and manage an approximately $100 million portfolio of complex nuclear infrastructure and capital projects. The role is the main point of contact for the nuclear facility project portfolio and is accountable for ensuring projects are managed and executed safely and in compliance with applicable requirements. It directly manages assigned complex and strategically significant projects while leading, coaching, coordinating, and integrating the broader portfolio team. The role establishes portfolio priorities, execution strategies, and long-range plans; manages project scope, cost, schedule, risk, technical performance, and closeout; and guides project managers, construction managers, coordinators, and matrixed teams. It works with customers, facility stakeholders, technical organizations, management, regulators, and other partners to define requirements and resolve issues. It also monitors performance, develops mitigation and recovery actions, oversees project controls and acquisition planning, and communicates status, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to management and customers. The position supports common portfolio-management processes, tools, metrics, and best practices across SIM, and performs other duties as assigned. The position reports directly to the Project Management Division Lead. It may offer a hybrid schedule, including the option to work from home one or more days per week after a probationary period; the arrangement depends on team and organizational needs. This is a Career Indefinite position open to Lab employees and external candidates. A DOE Q-level security clearance is required, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Requirements

Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for the clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, project management, business, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Extensive experience leading complex technical, operational, facilities, infrastructure, construction, or capital-asset projects.
Significant direct project-management experience in the nuclear industry (DOE or commercial nuclear power), including oversight of medium- to large-scale projects in highly regulated environments.
Demonstrated experience independently managing complex projects from initiation through closeout, including scope definition, cost and schedule baselines, risk management, stakeholder coordination, change control, and performance reporting.
Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio or multiple concurrent projects, including scope, cost, schedule, risk, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
Advanced knowledge of project-management principles, project controls, cost estimating, scheduling, risk management, and performance reporting.
Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary and matrixed teams and influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
Advanced written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
Demonstrated ability to advise management and customers on significant project, operational, technical, and resource decisions.
Extensive knowledge of nuclear industry regulations (DOE Orders, NRC, ASME, etc.), construction contracts, industry codes, and standards.

Nice To Haves

Postgraduate education in engineering, engineering management, project management, business, or a related technical field.
Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or comparable certification.
Experience in DOE/NNSA, federal, laboratory, or similarly regulated environments.
Experience with earned value management, Primavera P6, integrated cost and schedule management, or project-reporting systems.
Experience leading through project managers, team leads, or matrixed organizations.
Experience with facility, utility, construction, maintenance, or infrastructure projects.
Extensive knowledge of the ASME NQA-1 standard and its application to suppliers of nuclear-grade materials and services.

Responsibilities

Lead a portfolio of concurrent projects, integrating scope, schedule, budget, risks, resources, and performance.
Directly manage assigned complex, high-priority, or strategically significant projects, with accountability for scope, cost, schedule, risk, technical performance, and closeout.
Establish portfolio priorities, execution strategies, and long-range plans using independent judgment.
Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and technical oversight to project managers, construction managers, coordinators, and matrixed project teams.
Coordinate with customers, facility stakeholders, technical organizations, management, regulators, and other partners to define requirements and resolve project issues.
Ensure projects comply with applicable safety, environmental, quality, security, regulatory, and project-management requirements.
Monitor portfolio performance; identify risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies; and develop mitigation and recovery actions.
Oversee scope definition, budget and cost estimating, schedule development, resource planning, acquisition strategy, and change control.
Prepare and communicate portfolio status, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recommendations to management and customers.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, customer-focused culture that promotes continuous improvement in project delivery.
Support development and implementation of common portfolio-management processes, tools, metrics, and best practices across Site Infrastructure Management.
Perform other duties as assigned.