Principal Project Manager

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. As a Principal Field Project Manager, you will be responsible for managing high-complexity projects and leading teams to ensure successful project execution in the nuclear power sector.

Responsibilities:

• You will lead a variety of welding, machining and large components replacement projects performed during nuclear power plant outages
• Oversee and provide input to development of cost estimates and proposals for field service projects, in the nuclear power sector. Support customer negotiations and be an advocate for Westinghouse value-added opportunities at customer sites
• Complete the project planning processes, including authoring project management plans, procedures, schedules, challenge meetings, cost baselines/projections and financials reporting, invoicing, risk and partner registers per the Westinghouse Enterprise Project Management Office programs and Specialty Welding & Machining Project Playbook
• Be the driving factor during project execution at customer sites that lead our teams to safe and event-free, first-time quality project deliveries including schedule performance vs. baseline, tracking and projecting financials, invoicing, logging project performance details and lessons learned, and active partner management with internal and external communications. Develop and implement recovery plans when projects are off-track
• Ensure project closure by archiving work in financial, scheduling, document management, and resource management systems/tools. Perform final project quality assessments and reports. Communicate best practices, opportunities for improvement, lessons learned, and risk avoidance for future work

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in applicable disciplines: Project Management, Engineering, Science, or a related technical degree or equivalent non-degreed technical experience in an industrial environment (field service, nuclear, power plant, NDE, oil/gas)
• 5 years of project management experience or 3 years of project management/supervisory experience and 2+ years of technical field experience (e.g., field service, nuclear, power plant, Non-Destructive Examination (NDE), oil/gas industry) may be considered as equivalent
• Experience leading field-based projects, particularly at nuclear plants during outages, and observing Safety and Non-Safety Related Quality Programs, ASME codes and several types of NDE
• Leadership and hands-on field experience with both non-union and union represented workforce for pipe fitting, boilermakers, machinists, manual and automated welding, and nuclear system piping repairs
• 6-10 plus years of applicable Project Management experience preferred, specifically in Construction Management, large component replacements, and working with union represented craft workforce