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Lead Project Manager - Technical Services Group, Inc. - BWSR, LLC Idaho Falls, ID

Location

On-site at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) near Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Your Day to Day as a Project Manager 

• Lead the planning and execution of medium and/or complex projects, including facility modifications, infrastructure improvements, equipment installations, system upgrades, and related capital projects.
• Manage project activities throughout the full project life cycle, including scoping, planning, design, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Maintain accountability for project cost, schedule, scope, quality, technical performance, and overall execution.
• Coordinate engineering, procurement, construction, operations, quality assurance, safety, environmental, security, project controls, suppliers, and commissioning activities.
• Foresee project opportunities, risks, and issues and adjust project strategies to embrace opportunities or mitigate impacts.
• Apply an advanced understanding of the company’s business to improve project cost effectiveness, support change management, and improve project margin.
• Influence and negotiate business, technical, and scope issues with customers, contractors, suppliers, and other stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Ensure project and construction activities comply with approved designs, specifications, work packages, configuration-management requirements, nuclear-quality-assurance requirements, safety controls, and site procedures.
• Monitor contractor and subcontractor performance, including productivity, schedule adherence, quality, staffing, work planning, site coordination, and corrective actions.
• Manage project interfaces and integration risks among ongoing operations, facility systems, engineering organizations, project controls, suppliers, and site stakeholders.
• Lead project risk and opportunity management, including work sequencing, constructability, material availability, industrial safety, radiological controls, quality, and system turnover.
• Provide clear and timely project status reports and briefings covering progress, critical-path activities, cost and schedule performance, risks, quality issues, and recovery plans.
• Support readiness reviews, construction completion reviews, testing and commissioning, independent assessments, audits, lessons learned, and corrective-action implementation.
• Motivate project teams toward common goals, build respect across multiple disciplines, and lead project and/or discipline managers and other project personnel to achieve project objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, construction management, project management, business, or a related discipline. A degree is required for NOG positions.
• Typically requires at least 12 years of relevant experience with a technical degree or 16 years of relevant experience with a non-technical degree.
• Typically requires 8-15 years of project management experience.
• Current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or an equivalent recognized project-management certification.
• At least 5 years of substantial experience executing construction projects in a nuclear environment, or another highly regulated environment with comparable safety, quality assurance, configuration management, work control, and documentation requirements.
• Demonstrated experience managing field construction execution, including contractor oversight, work planning, sequencing, schedule control, quality inspections, testing, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Experience managing complex capital, facility, equipment, infrastructure, or environmental projects from design and procurement through construction and final acceptance.
• Experience coordinating construction activities involving radioactive and/or hazardous materials, waste generation, handling, treatment, storage, transportation, or disposal.
• Demonstrated experience with integrated scheduling, cost and schedule control, risk management, change control, contractor management, and performance reporting.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy “L” clearance.
• U.S. citizenship required; dual citizenship is not permitted for this position.
• Ability to obtain and maintain radiological dosimetry in support of the Naval Reactors Program.
• Ability to work effectively in a highly regulated, safety-conscious, security-sensitive environment and comply with applicable access, training, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification as a licensed professional.
• Experience working in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program or another highly regulated nuclear, defense, energy, or federal environment.
• Experience leading nuclear facility construction, modification, modernization, deactivation, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience with nuclear construction work packages, field change control, quality verification, testing and commissioning, system turnover, and as-built documentation.
• Experience supporting DOE project reviews, life-cycle management, baseline development, EVMS implementation, or major-system acquisition activities.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety culture, quality assurance, radiological protection, environmental compliance, and hazardous-material controls.
• Experience managing projects with significant interfaces among government organizations, contractors, suppliers, regulators, and technical authorities.

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