Senior Project Manager

Savannah River National Laboratory•Aiken, SC

About The Position

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is hiring multiple Senior Project Managers to join its Project Management Office. The Senior Project Manager provides leadership and overall management for capital asset projects from initiation through design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. The role integrates technical, cost, schedule, risk, safety, quality, procurement, and stakeholder requirements to deliver approved scope within authorized performance baselines. The Senior Project Manager is the principal contractor focal point for the project sponsor, functional organizations, subcontractors, and project-controls personnel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or a related technical field; a combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
10 or more years of progressively responsible project-management experience, including management of major capital construction, infrastructure, industrial, environmental, or nuclear projects.
Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams through planning, design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
Experience managing cost, schedule, scope, risk, contracts, and change control for large, complex projects.
Working knowledge of DOE capital-asset project-management principles, integrated project teams, and project execution planning.
Experience using earned value management, project controls, cost forecasting, and integrated scheduling tools, including Primavera P6 or comparable systems.
Strong written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
U.S. citizenship is legally required for the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing DOE or NNSA Line Item capital projects under DOE Order 413.3C or predecessor requirements.
Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Construction Manager (CCM), Professional Engineer (PE), or comparable certification.
Experience with EVMS, baseline reviews, external project reviews, and DOE performance reporting.
Knowledge of nuclear, radiological, environmental, industrial, or high-hazard facility requirements.
Experience with acquisition strategy, subcontract administration, value engineering, commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and project closeout.

Responsibilities

Lead the Integrated Project Team and establish roles, responsibilities, decision authorities, and project-management expectations.
Plan, manage, and authorize work needed to achieve project objectives.
Identify and document risk-informed tailoring opportunities and required equivalencies, exemptions, variances, or conflict resolutions.
Ensure compliance with contractual requirements, DOE directives, site procedures, applicable codes and standards, environmental requirements, and integrated safety-management principles.
Define, validate, and maintain project scope; develop or approve project criteria, the Project Statement of Work, Work Breakdown Structure, and supporting planning documents.
Lead development, implementation, and maintenance of the project performance measurement baseline, including scope, schedule, budget, resource requirements, contingency, and management reserve as applicable.
Ensure the master schedule is developed and maintained in alignment with the Work Breakdown Structure and control accounts.
Review project performance, forecast costs and schedules, Estimate at Completion, and risk exposure; direct timely corrective actions when thresholds are exceeded.
Manage baseline changes through approved change-control processes and ensure changes to scope, cost, schedule, and funding are documented, evaluated, authorized, and incorporated appropriately.
Ensure scope changes are handled through formal written direction and approved baseline-change processes.
Ensure compliance with a tailored approach utilizing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) light and applicable customer reporting requirements.
Review project budget plans, work packages, planning packages, performance data, variance analyses, estimates to complete, and corrective-action plans.
Ensure accurate, timely, and defensible project-status reporting to DOE and senior management, including cost and schedule performance, trends, risks, issues, and recovery actions.
Lead preparation and review of required project reviews, briefings, monthly reports, and baseline documentation.
Direct integration of conceptual, preliminary, and final design; procurement; construction; testing; commissioning; readiness activities; turnover; and closeout.
Oversee subcontractor and supplier performance, including acquisition strategy, bid-package development, contract execution, technical performance, claims avoidance, and change management.
Coordinate engineering, construction, operations, nuclear safety, quality assurance, environmental compliance, safeguards/security, and other supporting functions.
Resolve complex technical, construction, operational, and stakeholder-interface issues that could affect project objectives.
Ensure completion of acceptance, turnover, capitalization, records, lessons learned, and closeout activities.
Ensure project risks and opportunities are identified, analyzed, documented, assigned owners, monitored, and mitigated throughout the project life cycle.
Promote an active safety culture and ensure work follows approved safety, quality, and work-control requirements.
Ensure constructability, value engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, and readiness considerations are incorporated at appropriate project phases.