Senior Execution Project Manager

X-Energy • Houston, TX

16h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Execution Project Manager leads the end-to-end execution of highly complex, high-value, or strategically critical equipment packages. The role ensures delivery in alignment with project schedules, budgets, commercial obligations, and technical requirements while upholding Safety, Health, Environmental, Quality, and Security (SHEQS) standards. It provides advanced technical judgment, commercial expertise, and cross-functional leadership to guide packages from concept and design through fabrication, regulatory compliance, installation, commissioning, and handover.

The role acts as a senior subject matter expert and key decision-maker, identifying risks, execution gaps, and opportunities and developing mitigation and recovery strategies with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Project Controls, and Project Leadership. It provides authoritative reporting on package performance, risks, cost exposure, and schedule outlook to the Project Director, Project Management Team, and, when needed, Corporate Management.

This position is based in Houston, Texas, or Gaithersburg, Maryland, with an expectation of working onsite four days per week. Hours are 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, with travel up to 10% as needed. The position is full-time and exempt. The listed salary range is $188,750–$212,500.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Project Management, or a related technical field.
• Typically 12 or more years of relevant experience in complex technical, equipment, or fabrication project execution.
• Proven leadership managing large-scale, high-value, first-of-a-kind, or technically complex project packages.
• Deep understanding of equipment design, manufacturing, fabrication processes, regulatory frameworks, and quality assurance.
• Significant experience working with Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, and Project Controls organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cost, schedule, risk, and technical interfaces at a senior level.
• Expertise with project management systems, reporting platforms, and governance processes.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, including experience reporting to senior executives.
• Strong leadership capabilities and demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of complex, high-criticality, or first-of-a-kind equipment packages in alignment with project strategy.
• Develop execution strategies addressing technical complexity, long-lead items, and changing project conditions.
• Oversee Configuration Management and enforce change-control processes.
• Direct design-for-manufacturing practices, particularly for first-of-a-kind components or platforms.
• Validate manufacturability, transportation, installation, and commissioning constraints before commercial award, escalating gaps that require leadership decisions.
• Ensure quality requirements, inspection regimes, and regulatory obligations are integrated and satisfied before package handover.
• Manage performance against bid-basis cost and schedule, identify deviations early, and implement interventions or recovery plans.
• Provide accurate executive-level reporting, including forward-looking assessments and scenario-based projections.
• Maintain auditable records of costs, commitments, changes, and forecast assumptions.
• Work with Project Controls leadership to validate trends, quantify schedule risks, and maintain forecast integrity.
• Coordinate with schedulers and field execution teams to shape installation and commissioning strategies.
• Lead identification and quantification of strategic risks and opportunities across assigned packages.
• Serve as a senior authority for Management of Change, ensuring impacts are understood, documented, and communicated.
• Develop contingency strategies, lead root-cause analyses, and contribute to lessons-learned programs.
• Act as the senior interface with executive-level client representatives, EPC contractors, suppliers, and cross-functional leaders.
• Lead project meetings, supplier negotiations, technical alignment sessions, and resolution of critical issues.
• Escalate and resolve complex supplier, technical, commercial, and contractual challenges.
• Oversee formal project correspondence and ensure alignment with contractual, legal, and commercial expectations.
• Review and validate supplier contracts, bid evaluations, technical specifications, and commercial proposals.
• Direct prioritization and flow of engineering and supplier documentation to support schedule adherence.
• Engage end users and technical authorities to ensure operational requirements are incorporated into design and execution packages.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development policy supporting continuing education

What This Job Offers

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