Senior Project Manager

Savannah River National Laboratory•Aiken, SC

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is hiring multiple Senior Project Managers for its Project Management Office. The role provides leadership and overall management of capital asset projects from initiation through design, construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for integrating technical, cost, schedule, risk, safety, quality, procurement, and stakeholder requirements to deliver approved project scope within authorized performance baselines. The position serves as the principal contractor focal point for project sponsors, functional organizations, subcontractors, and project-controls personnel. The role leads integrated project teams and manages scope, cost, schedule, performance baselines, earned value reporting, design, construction, procurement, commissioning, risk, safety, and quality. It ensures compliance with contractual requirements, DOE directives, site procedures, applicable codes and standards, environmental requirements, and integrated safety-management principles. The position also oversees subcontract and supplier performance, reports project status to DOE and senior management, directs corrective action when needed, and ensures project turnover and closeout activities are completed. SRNL is a multi-program laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina. Its Operations & Facilities Division supports infrastructure upgrades for nuclear and industrial facilities. Relocation assistance is available for certain positions.

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 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 project activities comply 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, resources, contingency, and management reserve as applicable.
Ensure the master schedule is developed and maintained in alignment with the project Work Breakdown Structure and control accounts.
Review project performance, forecast cost and schedule outcomes, Estimate at Completion, and risk exposure; direct timely corrective action when performance 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 rather than absorbed within the existing baseline.
Ensure compliance with a tailored approach utilizing 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 performance, trends, risks, issues, and recovery actions.
Lead preparation and review of 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, owned, monitored, and mitigated throughout the project life cycle.
Promote an active safety culture and ensure work is planned and performed in accordance with approved safety, quality, and work-control requirements.
Ensure constructability, value engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, and readiness considerations are incorporated at appropriate project phases.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision options, including HSA options with a company-provided contribution.
Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
Company-paid noncontributory life insurance equal to one times salary.
Company-paid noncontributory AD&D coverage equal to one times salary.
Savings and Investment plan with a 5% qualified non-elective company contribution each pay period and immediate vesting.
Company match of 50 cents per dollar up to 8%, with five-year vesting in the company match.
Contributory life insurance up to five times salary, capped at $1 million.
Contributory AD&D coverage for employees, spouses, and children.
Paid time off.
Employee Assistance Plan.
Competitive relocation package; domestic and international relocation assistance is available for certain positions.